Lathrop whose delightful illustrations of Hitty help to tell the tale. She collaborated with illustrator Dorothy P. Rachel Field found her in an antique shop on West Eighth Street in New York, and thinking that she must have had a long and interesting history, decided to write her story. The real Hitty is located at the Stockbridge Library Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Lathrop for the frontispiece of HITTY: HER FIRST HUNDRED YEARS Note: Featured photo of the real Hitty in the Stockbridge Library and Museum is courtesy of Beth Anne Hall. But few people were making Hitty dolls at that time. I remember thinking at the time that it was a really good story, and as a young doll collector, I would have loved to have my own Hitty doll. This edition was printed in October, 1943, and it has the colored frontispiece of Hitty sitting for her daguerreotype, illustrated by Dorothy P. I first read Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field when I was a teenager, and I still have the somewhat battered hardcover copy which I purchased used for $1.
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