DOLLING UP FOR CHRISTMAS; SEASONAL SHOW TO PROVIDE FOCUS ON CELEBRATIONS.Byline: Romy Jacobson Daily News Staff Writer The Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery will give visitors a sense of how Christmas was celebrated in other places and other times: Victorian England and pioneer Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley . The ``A Victorian Christmas - A Holiday Season Extravaganza'' exhibit includes life-size dioramas of pioneer and Victorian scenes, dolls dating to the 1840s, antique miniature trucks and cars, and a collection of Santa Claus Santa Claus: see Nicholas, Saint. Santa Claus jolly, gift-giving figure who visits children on Christmas Eve. [Christian Tradition: NCE, 1937] See : Christmas Santa Claus figures. ``You can step back in time and experience a different era,'' said curator Norma Gurba. The pioneer diorama features mannequins dressed in late-1800s clothing surrounding a table set with a turkey dinner, an evergreen trimmed with paper ornaments and a decorated manzanita manzanita: see bearberry. bush - native to the Antelope Valley's foothills. The Victorian diorama includes mannequins in period dress and a tree decorated with handblown hand·blown also hand-blown adj. Formed or shaped with a hand-held blowpipe: handblown goblets. ornaments. The doll display contains Victorian dolls and an assortment of 20th-century ones, including a Patsy Anne doll, circa 1920; Terry Lee dolls made in Apple Valley in the 1950s; and a variety of Barbie dolls including a brunette No. 1 Barbie Barbie in full Barbara Millicent Roberts A plastic doll, 11.5 in. (29 cm) tall, with the figure of an adult woman that was introduced in 1959 by Mattel, Inc., a southern California toy company. from 1959 - only one out of every three were brunette. Thirty of the dolls came from Antelope Valley resident Cyndee Davenport. ``I've been collecting dolls since I was 3 years old,'' said Davenport. ``I started out making cloth dolls for my daughter when she was little.'' The Santa Claus figures on display include a Old West Santa in chaps, and Santas made from unglazed porcelain and bread dough. The display will open Saturday with a free reception from noon to 4 p.m. Members of L'Amour de Poupees and Sage Brush Doll clubs will be selling items. The festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. will continue Sunday with contests for Victorian hairstyles and gingerbread gingerbread In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of houses. Gingerbread houses will be judged at 2:30 p.m. on originality, decoration, and presentation. Hairstyles will be judged at 3 p.m. on creativity, difficulty and execution. Entry fees are $10 for the hairstyles, $2 for the gingerbread houses. Winners get gift certificates. The Christmas exhibit will run through Jan. 11. The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. The museum is located at 44801 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . For more information, call the museum at (805) 723-6250 or 723-6251. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV only) ) Monica Wegner sets up an Old West-theme Santa Claus for the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery's displays on Christmas observances. (2 -- color in AV only) Wegner adjusts a trio of dolls modeled after Queen Victoria. (3 -- AV edition only) Monica Wegner, left, and Nancy Mossman set up a Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery Christmas display. The show will run into January. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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