Debbie Behan Garrett has collected black dolls for 20 years. She is the author of "The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls," "Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting and ...

Ask Sherryl Shirran how many doll she owns and she can’t tell you exactly. Somewhere past 1,000, she figures. “I have too many dolls to count.” The Anaheim home that Shirran, 75, shares with her ...

Michele Cotner has a lot of small friends in her home — more than 100 of them. Luckily, they are quiet and don’t run around. Last week, she brought many of them to the meeting of Brunswick Art Works ...

Plastic Barbies didn't get an invitation. Madame Alexander collectibles have no business here. Cabbage Patch Kids will go orphaned another week. The approximately 150 conventioneers at the National ...

LEOMINSTER — Once a month in the Acton Congregational Church, a group of females gathers to discuss and play with dolls they collect. But they’re not young girls. These women immerse themselves in ...

Rosemary Deal played with dolls from an early age. That’s in contrast to her sister, Linda Holderbaum, who preferred to play with traditional boy toys. But now the two Battle Creek residents have a ...

Elizabeth Kraft Taylor, author of Three Jews Walked Into a Shopping Center, recalls her infatuation with dolls. “It started when I was about 30 years old. My dolls were called Gene Marshall. They were ...

Director Maureen Judge takes a look at the sometimes weird, sometimes artful and sometimes sad subculture of doll collecting in the documentary Living Dolls. Many of us abandon our dolls, boxing up ...

Everywhere you look there is a doll. All over the house, in every closet and every corner. Gloria Everett loved dolls and over several decades that love turned into an amazing collection. Her daughter ...

Debbie Behan Garrett has collected black dolls for 20 years. She is the author of "The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls," "Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting and ...