American Girl Doll Kirsten

American Girl Dolls was founded in 1986 by Pleasant T. Rowland after she had a trip to Colonial Williamsburg. The dolls were meant to be used as a way for women to see themselves in the historical record with most dolls having at least some historical context. The first American Girl Doll store was opened in Chicago in 1998. The dolls are still immensely popular today.

This particular American Girl doll is meant to represent a Swedish Immigrant family on their farmstead in Minnesota in 1854. The doll in the collection is not the original doll as the original doll was one of the first dolls ever made by the American Girl doll company in 1986.

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“Our Story,” American Girl, accessed November 9, 2026, https://www.americangirl.com/pages/our-story.