Doll-A-Day 2023 #52: Miss Sunbeam

   Yesterday I showed you the Linda Williams doll, and her supposed twin, Miss Sunbeam. Today we're looking at Miss Sunbeam herself.

This Miss Sunbeam supposedly has the same head sculpt as Linda Williams, but obvious differences include Miss Sunbeam's dimples and her open mouth. Look at Linda for comparison.

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.