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Living with parents through 1900 census 1910 Census ?? 1920 US Census, 66 East Jefferson, Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri, Enumeration District 7, household 4, sheet 1A, 2 Jan 1920 Ray G. Hulburt, head, rents male, white, 34, married, can read and write, born in Nebraska, parents born in US, journalist in a printing office Emma, wife, female, white, 33, married, can read and write, born in Missouri, father born in Virginia, mother born in Missouri Dayton D., son, male, white, 2/12, single, born in Missouri, father born in Nebraska, mother born in Missouri 1930 US Census, Oak Park Village, Cook County, Illinois, Enumeration District 16-2255, sheet 11A, household 161, April 11 1930 Ray G. Hulburt, head, rents home for $65.49 per month, owns a radio, male, white, 43, married at age 33, can read and write, born in Nebraska, father born in New York, mother born in Virgina, publicity agent Emma, wife, female, white, 42, married at age 32, can read and write, born in Missouri, father born in Virginia, mother born in Kentucky Dayton, son, male, white, 10, single, can read and write, born in Missouri, father born in Nebraska, mother born in Missouri Ruth, daughter, female, white, 9, single, can read and write, born in Missouri, father born in Nebraska, mother born in Missouri
Undated Article, Unknown Newspaper Hundreds in Doll Collection Mrs. Ray G. Hulburt Prizes by Les Hemingway Any little boy can be counted on to say, “Aw, who wants to play with dolls!”But take him to see the collection of mulitsized human images in the home of Mrs. Ray G. Hulburt, 1141 Ontario street, Oak Park, and he’ll soon reach the “Gee, look at that one!” stage without fearing the taunt of “Sissy.” Mrs. Hurlburt has gathered hundreds of dolls around her in fifteen years of collecting the world over. They vary in size, coloring and realistic appearance to the point where, as you peer into a shoe-button eye leveled easily at you, the feeling comes that you would be feeling comes that you would be risking the chance of a tiny voice rising in protest if you dared hazard an opinion as to which of the gang’s members is the most conceited-looking, cuddlesome, or “kick-aboutable.” Says Dolls Have Personalities Doll collecting, as Mrs. Hurlburt explains, is a fascinating business, and makes the collector conscious of the preence of the “wee people” wherever he may be. “They have personalities,” she says, “and stand and sit in favorite positions like the villagers who ride the L.” The rubber dolls and the broken china doll, famed in story and song, are just about the only two little people missing from her collection. just returned from the east wiht a score of new specimens, Mrs. Hurlburt brought back with her the largest Shirley Temple doll ever manufactured. Another find was a 120-year-old doll of papier-mache and kid, the hair painted black, the hands of wood and feet of black leather stubbs. Dressed in a white collared maroon dress with puff sleeves, she’s every inch a lady. The dolls themselves range from every country, indulging in “dollatry,” as Mrs. Hurlburt calls it, with a specialization on early American dolls. There are Swiss in Alpine suits, Japanese dolls of high and low society, an Alaskan dresse in a parka with snowshoes strapped on, North American Indian papooses, Negroes from Virginia made by the “Just Folks” handicrafters, Scotch highlanders in kilt and sporran, Jamaica and Bermuda Negroes, Egyptian and Persian ladies complete with veils for public appearances and natives of the better known towns of the European continent from Oslo to Rome. Believing that the only way to get authentic craftmanship, Mrs. Hurlburt collected foreign dolls only in their respective countries. From the South Seas It takes a strange turn of the imagination to make a doll in some countries, according to results manifestedb in Mrs. Hurlburt’s collection. From the south seas comes a dancer made entirely of seaweed. Its arms and head fashioned from dried nodules of kelp. Others are made with heads of nuts from peanuts to pecans. Dolls, however, aren’t just now becoming dear to the hearts of intelligent people. Queen Victoria’s famous 132 dolls, with which she played all her life are very like four specimens in the Oak Park collection. About eight inches high...rest of article missing Hugh Kidd Obituary, October 1950 says she is living in Chicago. Image Gallery
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