Help Wanted: Electrician!, Tempe Daily News, Dec 8 1977
DateDec 1977
MediumEmulsion on paper
Dimensions5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number2001.19.2176
DescriptionChristmas season exhibits at Tempe Historical Museum in the Community Center complex, Rural Road and Southern Avenue, will include this delightful dollhouse -- provided museum curator Peggy Burton can find a volunteer electrician to get it "lit up" for the season.Given to the museum last year by Richard Steen of Phoenix, who made it, the over four-foot high dollhouse is complete with furnishings, doll "residents" in all of its 18 rooms, and a lighting system.
The film negative of this photograph is housed in box 2G7-F.
Unfortunately, though, the museum's docents have been unable to get that lighting system in operation -- and for a Christmas "present," they're wishing for some kindly, volunteer electrician to come along and do the job for them.
Mrs. Burton said a plastic dome has been ordered to cover the dollhouse to protect its interior from curious tots (and adults too) -- and "we would like to have the lights working so museum visitors can see the rooms and their furnishings when the cover is put on."
The dollhouse is not an antique -- it was made by Steen in recent years to "showcase" the French dolls he makes. It was created in the Victorian syle of Tempe's old Petersen House and Rossen house in Phoenix.
Furnishings are in the Victorian theme too -- and the dollhouse residents are dressed in period costumes as well.
The dollhouse has delighted museum visitors of all ages. And with the plastic dome, museum workers will be able to place the dollhouse so it may be seen "closer up" -- if the lights are working!
Status
Not on view
September 1977
