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Trimpey Antiques
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Mr. Trimpey creates a self-portrait while photographing the window of his antique shop at 128 Fourth Avenue. The window display features dolls from the collection of the photographer's wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, and copies of her new book, Becky, My First Love. An automobile and the Sauk County Courthouse are reflected in the window.
May 1946
Trimpey, Ephraim Burt
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WHi 72518
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Becky the Doll
1930
A doll named Becky, with china head and old-fashioned dress, sits on a small chair.
Alice Kent Trimpey with a Doll
1945
Mrs. Trimpey sits in a chair holding her doll, Emeline.
Three Dolls
1935
Three dolls from the collection of the photographer's wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, are posed seated at a small table with a tea set. The dolls date from the mid-nineteenth century; the doll on the lef...
Dolls in Show Window
1930
A nighttime view of dolls from the collection of Alice Kent Trimpey, arranged in the window of the Trimpey Studio and antique shop, 128 Fourth Avenue. The dolls are displayed with antique furniture...
German Fashion Doll
1935
A doll from the collection of Alice Kent Trimpey, the photographer's wife. This early twentieth century porcelain doll was made in Nymphenburg, Germany, from a mold from the mid-eighteenth century,...
Alice Kent Trimpey
1930
A portrait of the photographer's wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, sitting. Mrs. Trimpey was an authority on antiques and antique dolls.
