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Dolls aren’t necessarily the finest fodder for nightmares, but there’s something a little creepy about old dolls. Scratch that, there’s something massively disturbing about old dolls. They inhabit the ancient uncanny valley, they almost look like today’s dolls, but there’s something slightly off. They embody the way the past thought about its childhood. But however massively disturbed you may find vintage dolls, they are as nothing compared to the factories in which the dolls were created back in 1930s to the 1950s.
A young girl laughs at the sight of dolls' heads at the Ideal Toy Company in Long Island, New York. The company was one of the largest toy producers in the world in 1955.
Doll parts in an injection mould at Cascelloid's factory at Leicester, England in 1951.
In the factory of Cascelloid Limited, the limbs of the famous Patsy doll hang up to dry.
A worker trims the eyelashes on a pair of doll's eyes at a factory in Totton, Southampton, which specializes in the manufacture of doll parts.
A row of doll's heads in a German factory circa 1950.
Doll factory in France preparing for Christmas.
A worker painting celluloid doll heads at a Leicester, England factory.
A worker paints doll faces at a factory in Italy.
Inside a Paris doll factory in 1945.
Freshly cast doll heads wait to dry, 1947
Workers test the strength of a doll's head, 1953
Workers stress-test dolls at a factory in Long Island, 1955
A worker paints dolls at a factory in England, 1937
A worker paints doll's heads, 1955
Children watch a worker painting doll's heads at a factory in Long Island, 1955
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