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Doll Hospital -

Hospital de Bonecas (Doll Hospital) was founded in 1830 in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Founded by Dona Carlota, the hospital still fixes and restores dolls to this day. 

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There is also a museum in the premises, making it one of Lisbon's local attractions. 

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Madame Alexander Heritage Gallery -

The Alexander Doll Company was founded in 1923 by Beatrice Alexander, in New York City.  

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Madame Alexander Heritage Gallery -

The company opened the new exhibition space, "Madame Alexander Heritage Gallery" which showcases their handmade dolls. 

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A local resident Tsukimi Ayano makes life-size dolls at her house in Nagoro, Japan. The dolls are used to counter the effects of depopulation.

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Life-sized dolls now outnumber humans 10 to one in Nagoro, Japan.

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Tsukimi Ayano dolls populate the village and can be found everywhere. Here are some emulating schoolchildren in an elementary school that has been closed for years.

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Kabul Dolls -

The Dolls factory is run by women, and most of its employees are widows. All dolls are handmade. 

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Afghan worker Zahra, dresses a President Hamid Karzai doll at the Kabul Dolls factory in Afghanistan. 

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Kaguyabina -

Women make Kaguyabina, a pair of paper dolls placed inside a bamboo container, at Matsui Kogeisha doll worksho in Kamigori, Japan. 

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The dolls are made for Hinamatsuri or "Girl's Day." In the weeks preceding this day, young girls put these traditional dolls on display at home.

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Craftsman Takeshi Itou makes other type of dolls ahead of Hinamatsuri at Kishimoto Ningyou doll workshop in Ono, Japan. 

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Geli Dolls -

A woman makes Geli dolls in Mexico City, Mexico. 

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Geli Dolls -

Geli Dolls was founded in 1976 and makes 50 new models every year.

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Geli Dolls -

The company's dolls are distributed across several Latin American markets.

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Sheela Chowdhary -

Indian dollmaker Sheela Chowdhary sits amid her dolls. 

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Chatty Cathy dolls -

Dollmaker Kelly McIntyre has boxes full of doll parts that she uses to make and restore Chatty Cathy dolls.

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Matryoshka dolls -

Olga Kyryllova sells Matryoshka dolls made by artists from the Ukraine and Russia.  

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Rag dolls -

A woman makes rag dolls at the 2017 Agrorus international agricultural fair in Russia.

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Rag dolls -

A woman makes a traditional Russian rag doll at a workshop in Sergiyev Posad, Russia.

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Wooden dolls -

A woman arranges wooden dolls in a workshop, back in 1938.

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Bolivian dolls -

Bolivian women sew dolls made of clothes in 1967.

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Doll manufacturing -

Women working in a manufacturing shop attach the hair onto the heads of dolls, circa 1908.

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Sandy Aasheim -

Sandy Aasheim poses with her dolls at the Belmar Museum in 1983. Sandy Aasheim is a certified reproduction dollmaker, and reproduced porcelain dolls mostly from the years 1850 to 1920.

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German workers -

German workers stuff dolls with straw, circa 1920.

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1928 -

A woman sews dolls' heads onto cloth bodies in Germany.

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Annette Harrision -

Dollmaker Annette Harrision at home surrounded by her porcelain antique reproduction dolls.

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Netherlands -

A dollmaker works at the Dutch center of animated movie-making, circa 1955.

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