Topsy-Turvy doll facts for kids

A Topsy-Turvy doll is a double-ended doll, typically featuring two opposing characters. They are traditionally American cloth folk dolls which fuse a white girl child with a black girl child at the hips. Later dolls were sometimes a white girl child with a black mammy figure. Precise facts about their origins are rare, but as late as the 1950s, "Topsy and Eva" dolls were marketed by Sears, Montgomery Ward, and The Babyland Rag company (aka Bruckner).

Collections and museums

Many Topsy-Turvy style dolls can be found in the Hatch Collection of Black Cloth Dolls. Another in a red checked apron, "called a double ender because of the two opposite heads", is on view at the Philadelphia Doll Museum.