The Second Installments: Antique Shop and the Colonial Bedroom
Her talent was heralded by the reviewers of the time, suggesting that the very spirit of the culture could be used by leading historical or archaeological figures in the future to see the specific markers of society during the period it was crafted to understand its people over a great swath of time: from a time of the colonies to what we will see as the boom of the 1950s.
Black and White Photograph of Mrs. Fisher's Antique Shop in her Dollhouse.
![<a href="/omeka/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=50&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=A+Black+and+White+Photograph+of+the+Colonial+Bedroom%2C+created+by+Mrs.+Fisher%2C+%5Bca.+1950s-1960s%5D">A Black and White Photograph of the Colonial Bedroom, created by Mrs. Fisher, [ca. 1950s-1960s]</a>](https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/thumbnails/179fe85f97fb3308fec0a00ec850f931.jpg "<a href=\"/omeka/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=50&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=A+Black+and+White+Photograph+of+the+Colonial+Bedroom%2C+created+by+Mrs.+Fisher%2C+%5Bca.+1950s-1960s%5D\">A Black and White Photograph of the Colonial Bedroom, created by Mrs. Fisher, [ca. 1950s-1960s]</a>")
A black and white photograph of the Colonial bedroom in Mrs. Fisher's dollhouse.
According to an article in the Sunday Independent, titled “Mrs. Fisher's Collection to Be Seen: Hospitals To Be Aided From Display:”
“[The exhibit] [d]epicts each account in the room so intentionally that it was proposed in the papers that should archaeologists discover the piece, they could easily comprehend “the ways and manners of American life to evaluate two centuries of our evolution”
Though there are endless things to say about the dollhouse in its first 1947 edition, it appears Mrs. Fisher was not yet finished in her creation, for she would add two more rooms shortly before her first public showing in 1953: the Antique Shop and the Colonial Bedroom!