Born above her father's doll hospital in 1895 Brooklyn, it only made sense for Beatrice Alexander Behrman to go into the family business. She was 28 when she started a company that would both ...

A walk through the Madame Alexander Heritage Gallery reveals 600 expertly crafted glamour dolls wearing intricate designs. An official tour includes a visit to the gift shop, the doll hospital, and ...

On an upper floor of a Columbia building in Manhattanville, a factory put out a steady stream of lifelike, detailed dolls for decades. Founded in 1923, the Madame Alexander Doll Company moved to ...

or a long, long time, it has seemed that Madame Alexander would be as immortal as her dolls. Just last spring, at 93, the grande dame of the American dollmaking industry managed four large-scale ...