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and San Francisco society at her 19 to 22-room (but
who's counting) mansion in Hillsborough, California,
fondly known as, "The Other White House." Marge
Miller's book contains black and white photos, a
couple of which are included in this article. Yes, long
before there was color print for books, these black
and white early photos offered a glimpse of Nancy
Ann herself, along with a history of the company's
growth. Her life is an "Only in America" success
story. This article is a review of Nancy Ann Abbott's
life and how she ended up, at one point, owning the
largest doll-producing company in America.
Nancy Ann Abbott with her financial partner, Mr. Leslie Alan
Nancy Ann was born Rowena Haskin, on
Rowland, incorporated "Nancy Ann Dressed Dolls," in 1937,
obtaining a copyright for the name.
February 22, 1901 in Lake County, California. She
grew up to attend the College of Arts and Crafts
in Oakland, which she found useful in the coming
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acted in early silent movies, eventually becoming
a Hollywood studio designer. How did experience
in Hollywood movies and designing fashions for
the 1930-40s merge into a highly successful doll
business for Nancy Ann Abbott? That is the mystery
of her creative mind. In 1935 Nancy tragically
lost her father in an automobile accident in San
Francisco, which completely changed her life and
altered her direction. To support her grieving family,
she moved from Hollywood to San Francisco. The
following year, she changed her name to Nancy Ann
Abbott and opened the Sutter Street Book Shop in
Nancy Ann was dressing child body molds with various MADE IN
San Francisco. A new chapter began in her life that
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were nursery rhyme characters, such as "Little Bo Peep" and
followed a winding path through the world of dolls.
"Mistress Mary." These little dressed dolls quickly sold.
Come with me, as we follow along the course of
The Nancy Ann Storybook Doll Company.
During the leap year of 1936, Nancy Ann
began a small adventure of dressing little
dolls using only her sewing machine and her
imagination. She began by dressing 3-½ inch and
4-½ inch bisque baby dolls. Crudely made, they
had various incised marks and were imported
from Japan. The bisque babies were dressed in
organdy dresses with bonnets, capes or sweaters
and all wore diapers and booties. Various
quintuplets dressed as babies using the Japan
molds were placed in gift baskets or pillows.
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but were obviously made to represent the Dionne
The company grew, with a large factory complete with conveyor belts
Quintuplets, born in 1934 in Canada.
and a floor of seamstresses located at 1298 Post Street, San Francisco,
In 1937, two remarkable events occurred: The
established in 1942.
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