American Girl dolls of all eras are on display at the American Girl store in New York City. Lanna Apisukh for NPR
Lanna Apisukh for NPR
Meet Samantha Parkington. She’s a 9-year-old orphan living with her wealthy grandmother in the fictional town of Mount Bedford, N.Y., in 1904.
And her hair is a mess.
Emily Friedrichsen, a stylist at the American Girl salon in New York City, buckles Samantha into a magenta-colored, doll-sized salon chair,
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