Yesterday I showed you the Linda Williams doll, and her supposed twin, Miss Sunbeam. Today we're looking at Miss Sunbeam herself.
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| No dimples and her teeth take up the whole opening of her mouth. |
They are both about 14 inches tall.
Miss Sunbeam is obviously an advertising doll. Her sponsor, so to speak, was Sunbeam bread.
As you can see, Sunbeam wanted you to know she represented them.
Ellen Barbara Segner was commissioned by the makers of Sunbeam bread in 1942 to create the marketing symbol for Sunbeam bread, based on a young child. After sketching characters for six months, Segner finally found a little girl in Indiana who was the perfect model. There have been several dolls based on the image Segner created. The one we're looking at today was produced by Eegee in the 1950's.
That's today's doll. It was short and sweet, due to my having a lot of wet mildewing stuff to clean and dry out from the fire, today. See you tomorrow.
How adorable! She could pass for Shirley Temple with those dimples!
ReplyDeleteIn downtown Ft. Wayne, Indiana, there used to be a large, iconic sign atop a building depicting Miss Sunbeam and a large loaf of bread that had rotating slices coming out of the loaf. Everybody of a certain age remembers that sign. But I didn't know there was a Miss Sunbeam doll! I remember the Danny Thomas show - a family viewing favorite.
ReplyDeleteTeresa F.
I used to work at a store and we got in a bread display that was a baker's rack with a fake pitcher of milk on top that was battery operated and constantly 'poured out' slices of bread. It was to promote that the bread had milk in it. I wonder if it was Sunbeam bread?
DeleteYour little Miss Sunbeam is very sweet and she's a size I really like in dolls. :)
ReplyDeleteBig hugs,
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