Madame Alexander Dolls

My dolls have been together since they were new and only needed a light freshening up. This set comes with it’s ORIGINAL PARTY DRESSES which are hard to find. Not only do you receive this beautiful set of hard to find dolls, but you will also receive one of my reproduction 5 set high chair which matches up to the original down to the exact measurements! ONCE AGAIN DON’T MISS OUT ON THIS OPPORTUNITY. I WILL BE LISTING MORE OF MY SETS OF DOLLS IN THE DAYS TO COME. FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS. ORIGINAL HARD TO FIND. Party Dressed Set of Composition. 7 Dionne Quintuplet Dolls. These doll have had their composition cleaned and then the dolls were professionally restrung. Dolls have all of their fingers and toes. Dolls have rubs and crazing with some small chips. Very good condition, please check out photos! Clothing has been lightly laundered and includes. ORIGINAL Madame Alexander Tagged Party Dresses and matching bonnets bonnets have their original ribbons! ORIGINAL Madame Alexander factory onsies. ORIGINAL Madame Alexander factory shoes and socks. ORIGINAL Madame Alexander Dionne Quintuplet brass NECKLACES!! Fabric embossed with BEAUTIFUL flowers. NECKLACE SETS ARE EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND, BECAUSE THE CHILDREN WOULD GET THE NECKLACE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE NECK AND TORSO AND THE NECKLACES BROKE. THEN THEY WERE THROWN AWAY OVER THE YEARS. THIS SET HAS BEEN WELL TAKEN CARE OF, AND THAT IS THE REASON THEY STILL HAVE THEIR NECKLACES. Composition bodies are marked. ALEXANDER (back of neck). ALEXANDER (middle of back). These party dress outfits are not common and difficult to find. This set has great color, there are no stains. These are brand new and each slice of cake came from a new Madame Alexander Birthday Doll. Each slice of cake comes with it’s own birthday candle. These will make a great display for your party girls!!! The replacement 5 seat high chair is also included with everything else. Also included is a new set of reproduction doll boxes! Good Luck, and Enjoy! Story of the Dionne Quints. The Dionne Quintuplets (born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets. Known to survive their infancy. The sisters were born just outside Callander, Ontario. Near the village of Corbeil. The Dionne girls were born two months premature. After four months with their family, they were made wards of the King for the next nine years under the Dionne Quintuplets’ Guardianship Act, 1935. The government and those around them began to profit by making them a significant tourist attraction in Ontario. Quintuplet sisters were (in order of birth). Yvonne Édouilda Marie Dionne died June 23, 2001, age 67, of cancer. Annette Lillianne Marie Dionne (Allard) age 79 as of July 2013. Cécile Marie Émilda Dionne (Langlois) age 79 as of July 2013. Émilie Marie Jeanne Dionne died August 6, 1954, age 20, of accidental suffocation during an epileptic seizure. Marie Reine Alma Dionne (Houle) died February 27, 1970, age 35, of an apparent blood clot. Of the brain, in Montreal. The family was headed by father Oliva-Edouard (27 Aug 1904 – 15 Nov 1979) and mother Elzire (Legros) Dionne (07 May 1909 22 Nov 1986), who married on September 15, 1926. They lived just outside of Corbeil, in a farmhouse in unregistered territory. Oliva, through his father, was a descendant of Zacharie Cloutier. (via Louise Cloutier 16321699, Charlotte Mignault 16691747, and Antoine Dionne 17061807). The Dionnes were a farming family with five previous children, Ernest (19261995), Rose Marie (19281995), Thérèse b. 1929, Daniel (19321995), and Pauline b. 1933, who was only eleven months older than the quints. A sixth child, Léo b. 1930, died of pneumonia. The Dionnes also had three sons after the quintuplets: Oliva Jr. 1936, Victor (19382007), and Claude b. Elzire suspected she was carrying twins, but no one was aware that quintuplets were even possible. The quintuplets were born two months premature. In 1938, the doctors had a theory that was later proven correct when genetic tests showed that the girls were indeed identical and were created from one single egg cell. Elzire reported having had cramps in her third month and passing a strange object which may have been a sixth fetus. Is credited with ensuring the successful live birth of the quintuplets. Originally, he diagnosed Elzire with a “fetal abnormality”. He delivered the babies with the help of two midwives, Aunt Donalda and Madame Benoit Lebel, who were summoned by Oliva Dionne in the middle of the night. Émilie and Marie shared an embryonic sac (and were identical twins), Annette and Yvonne shared an embryonic sac, and it is believed that Cécile shared an embryonic sac with the miscarried sixth fetus. Each girl became emotionally the closest to whomever they shared a sac with; Cécile tended to be alone the most. All but Émilie were/are right-handed; all but Marie have/had a counter-clockwise whorl in their hair. The births were registered in nearby Corbeil. The babies’ weights and measurements were not recorded. The quintuplets were immediately wrapped in cotton sheets and old napkins, and laid in the corner of the bed. Dafoe was certain that none of them could live. Shortly after the births were completed, Elzire went into shock and Dafoe thought that she would die as well, but she recovered in two hours. The babies were kept in a wicker basket borrowed from the neighbours, covered with heated blankets. They were brought into the kitchen and set by the open door of the stove to keep warm. One by one, they were taken out of the basket and massaged with olive oil. Every two hours for the first twenty-four, they were fed water sweetened with corn syrup. By the second day they were moved to a slightly larger laundry basket, and kept warm with hot-water bottles. They were watched constantly and often had to be roused. They were then fed with “seven-twenty” formula; that is, cow’s milk, boiled water, two spoonfuls of corn syrup, and one or two drops of rum for a stimulant. The news of the unusual birth spread quickly, sparked by Oliva’s brother’s inquiry to the local newspaper editor about how much he would charge for an announcement of five babies at a single birth. Before long, people all over North America were offering assistance. Individuals sent supplies and well-meant advice a famous letter from Appalachia. Recommends tiny doses of burnt rye whiskey. ; one hospital sent two incubators. At the Dafoe Nursery. The Dionne sisters were brought to Toronto. In 1939 to meet Queen Elizabeth. Oliva, already poor with five children, was approached by fair exhibitors for Chicago. S Century of Progress. Exhibition within days of their birth, who wished to put the Quintuplets on display and show them to the world. The parents were persuaded to agree, and although the contract was revoked before it was ever put into effect, it raised the issue of exploitation of the children. Four months after the birth of the sisters, the Ontario government. Intervened and found the parents to be unfit for the quintuplets. Custody of the five babies was withdrawn from their parents by the Lieutenant Governor. On the advice of Premier. In 1935, originally for a guardianship of two years. Although Oliva Dionne remained part of the guardianship, the children were put under the guidance of Dr. Dafoe and two other guardians. The stated reason for removing the quintuplets from their parents’ legal custody was to ensure their survival. The government realized that there was massive public interest in the sisters and proceeded to engender a tourist industry around them. The girls were made wards of the provincial Crown. Planned until they reached the age of 18. Across the road from their birthplace, the Dafoe Hospital and Nursery was built for the five girls and their new caregivers. The girls were moved from the farmhouse to this nursery at the end of September. The compound had an outdoor playground designed to be a public observation area. It was surrounded by a covered arcade that allowed tourists to observe the sisters behind one-way screens. The facility was funded by a Red Cross fundraiser. It was a nine-room nursery with a staff house nearby. The staff house held the three nurses and the three policemen in charge of guarding them. A housekeeper and two maids lived in the main building with the quintuplets. The buildings were surrounded by a seven-foot barbed-wire fence. The sisters were brought to play there for thirty minutes two or three times a day. They were constantly tested, studied, and examined, with records being taken of everything. The Dionne sisters, while living at the compound, had a somewhat rigid lifestyle. They were not required to participate in chores. They were privately tutored in the same building where they lived. Cared for primarily by nurses, the children had limited exposure to the world outside the boundaries of the compound except for the daily rounds of tourists, who, from the sisters’ point of view, were generally heard but not seen. They also had occasional contact with their parents and siblings across the road. Every morning they dressed together in a big bathroom, had doses of orange juice and cod-liver oil, and then went to have their hair curled. Then they said a prayer, a gong was sounded, and they ate breakfast in the dining room. After thirty minutes, they had to clear the table, even if they were not done. Then they went and played in the sunroom for thirty minutes, took a fifteen-minute break, and at nine o’clock had their morning inspection with Dr. Every month they had a different timetable of activities. They bathed every day before dinner and put on their pajamas. Dinner was served at precisely six o’clock. Then they went into the quiet playroom to say their evening prayers. Each girl had a colour and a symbol to mark what was hers. Annette’s colour was red with a maple leaf, Cecile’s colour was green and her design a turkey, Emilie had white and a tulip, Marie had blue and a teddy bear, and Yvonne had pink and a bluebird. Approximately 6,000 people per day visited the observation gallery that surrounded the outdoor playground to view the Dionne sisters. Ample parking was provided and almost 3,000,000 people walked through the gallery between 1936 and 1943. Oliva Dionne ran a souvenir shop and a concession store opposite the nursery and the area acquired the name Quintland. The souvenirs pictured the five sisters. There were autographs and framed photographs, spoons, cups, plates, plaques, candy bars, books, postcards, dolls, and much more at this shop. Midwives Madame LeGros and Madame LeBelle opened their own souvenir and dining stand. Quintland became Ontario’s biggest tourist attraction of the era, at the time surpassing the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. It was only rivaled by Radio City Music Hall. In the United States. Hollywood stars who came to Callander to visit the Quints included Clark Gable. Also visited Callander just six weeks before her ill-fated flight in 1937. The sisters, and their likenesses and images, along with Dr. Dafoe, were used to publicize commercial products such as Karo. Among many of other popular brands. They increased the sales of condensed milk, toothpaste, disinfectant, and many other products through their promotions. The Dionne sisters were becoming very famous. They starred in two Hollywood. Feature films, which were essentially fictionalized versions of their story. They played the’Wyatt Quintuplets’ in both films. The Country Doctor (1936) directed by Henry King. And starring Jean Hersholt. Five Of A Kind (1938) – The sequel to the above film. In both these films, the Dionne Quintuplets didn’t so much act as simply appear. Their scenes were filmed at Quintland in Callendar, and largely consisted of them playing and interacting with each other, as one would expect of normal 2 and 4-year-old children. Both films concentrated more on telling the (fictionalized) story of the heroic doctor who delivered the Wyatts and took care of them, than it did on the Wyatt quintuplets themselves. The Dionne quintuplets also appeared in numerous newsreels, and a short documentary film called Five Times Five. This film was nominated for an Oscar in 1940. In 1998, three of the surviving sisters, Cécile, Annette and Yvonne, participated in an hour long documentary, ” Full Circle: The Untold Story of the Dionne Quintuplets”. Written and directed by Maya Gallus. And broadcast on the CBC documentary series Life & Times. The quintuplets in 1947 with the parents and priest in the background. In November 1943, the Dionne parents won back custody of the sisters. The entire family moved into a newly built house within walking distance of Quintland. The yellow brick, 20-room mansion was paid for out of the Quintuplets’ fund. The home had many amenities of the time, including telephones, electricity and hot water. The mansion was nicknamed The Big House. The building is now a retirement home. The nursery was eventually converted into an accredited school house where the sisters finished their secondary education along with ten girls from the area that were chosen to attend. In later years, it was used by the Recluses of Corbeil as a convent. The quintuplets became emotionally closest to their sister Pauline. While the parents claimed that they wished to integrate the quintuplets into the family, the sisters frequently travelled to perform at various functions, still dressed identically. According to the accounts of the surviving sisters, the parents often treated them at home as a five-part unit, and frequently lectured them about the trouble they had caused the family by existing. They were sometimes denied privileges the other children received, and were more strictly disciplined and punished. They also received a heavier share of the housework and farmwork. In particular, the father was resentful and suspicious of outsiders as a result of his having lost custody of his children. In 1995, the three surviving sisters asserted that their father had sexually abused them during their teenaged years. The quintuplets left the family home upon turning 18 years old in 1952, and had little contact with their parents afterwards. Marie, Annette and Cécile went on to marry and have children Cécile having twins Bertrand and Bruno. Yvonne and Émilie never married; Émilie devoted her brief life to becoming a nun. Émilie and Marie both died before reaching middle age, with Émilie dying as a result of a seizure at 20, and Marie dying at 35. Émilie had a series of seizures while she was a postulant. She had asked not to be left unattended, but the nun. Who was supposed to be watching her thought she was asleep and went to Mass. Emilie had another seizure, rolled onto her belly and, unable to raise her face from her pillow, accidentally suffocated. In 1970 Marie was living alone in an apartment and her sisters were worried, because they had not heard from her in several days. Her doctor, whom she was seeing at the time, went to her home and found her in bed. She had been dead for days. Her estranged husband quickly reported to the media that there had been a blood clot in her brain. Annette and Cécile both eventually divorced; by the 1990s, the three surviving sisters (Annette, Cécile and Yvonne) lived together in the Montreal suburb of Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville. In 1965, author James Brough. Wrote a book, in cooperation with the four surviving sisters, called We Were Five. Published a biography called The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama in 1977 and narrated a 1978 National Film Board of Canada. John Nihmey and Stuart Foxman published the fictional Time of Their Lives The Dionne Tragedy in 1986. Nihmey and Foxman’s book was the basis for the 1994 TV miniseries, Million Dollar Babies. (1994), produced by CBC Television. And starring Roy Dupuis. In 1997, the three surviving sisters wrote an open letter to the parents of the McCaughey septuplets. Warning against allowing too much publicity for the children. Dear Bobbi and Kenny. If we emerge momentarily from the privacy we have sought all our adult lives, it is only to send a message to the McCaughey family. We three would like you to know we feel a natural affinity and tenderness for your children. We hope your children receive more respect than we did. Their fate should be no different from that of other children. Multiple births should not be confused with entertainment, nor should they be an opportunity to sell products. Our lives have been ruined by the exploitation we suffered at the hands of the government of Ontario, our place of birth. We were displayed as a curiosity three times a day for millions of tourists. To this day we receive letters from all over the world. To all those who have expressed their support in light of the abuse we have endured, we say thank you. And to those who would seek to exploit the growing fame of these children, we say beware. We sincerely hope a lesson will be learned from examining how our lives were forever altered by our childhood experience. If this letter changes the course of events for these newborns, then perhaps our lives will have served a higher purpose. Sincerely, Annette, Cecile and Yvonne Dionne. In 1998, the sisters reached a monetary settlement with the Ontario government as compensation for what was perceived to be their exploitation. Yvonne Dionne died in 2001, and as of May 2013, there are two surviving sisters, Annette and Cécile. A sibling of the Quintuplets was the first to open the Dionne home as a museum. The original family homestead was moved around 1960 to a location on Highway 11B. Near the present Clarion Resort. , and again in 1985 to North Bay. And converted into the non-profit Dionne Quintuplets Museum. The museum is located at the intersection of Highway 11. And the Trans Canada Highway. The museum features many artifacts from the quints’ early days and their growing years. The item “1930′s ORIGINAL Set MADAME ALEXANDER DIONNE QUINTUPLET DOLLS with NECKLACES” is in sale since Saturday, April 29, 2017. This item is in the category “Dolls & Bears\Dolls\By Brand, Company, Character\Madame Alexander\Vintage (Pre-1973)\Pre-1948″. The seller is “dionne*quints” and is located in Dallas, Texas. 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• Doll Size: 7in.
• Brand: Madame Alexander
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Recommended Age Range: Adult Collector
• Product Type: Composition Dolls

MIB Madame Alexander MADCC 2006 Williamsburg Convention Kate Greenaway, LE 19/75, 45560. The item “MIB Madame Alexander MADCC 2006 Williamsburg Kate Greenaway LE 19/75″ is in sale since Sunday, February 19, 2017. This item is in the category “Dolls & Bears\Dolls\By Brand, Company, Character\Madame Alexander\Modern (1970-Now)\6-8 Inches”. The seller is “soybest” and is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This item can be shipped to United States, all countries in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guadeloupe, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Sri lanka, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion.

• Doll Size: 8in.
• Brand: Madame Alexander
• Product Type: Doll(s) with Clothing/Accessories