Name: Charlie Ragg and Annie Ragg
Made by and When: E & A Global Enterprises, early 1970s
Material: Stuffing, cloth, and paint or ink for the lithographed faces, yarn, thread
Marks: Both dolls have body tags sewn to their lower right bodies that read: E & A Global Enterprises / Los Angeles, Ca. The back of the tag describes the materials and indicates the dolls were made in Taiwan.
Height: 24 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouths: Black looped yarn hair; Charlie’s hair is short. Annie’s hair is styled in two long braids accented with a red ribbon on each end. The faces are lithographed with white circles to represent cheeks.
Clothes: The dolls wear removable clothes with sewn-on black cloth feet. Charlie’s outfit includes a red “Big Apple” hat, a green shirt, a white bow-tie, and red overalls. Annie wears a white-eyelet-trimmed red dress, a white eyelet pinafore, and yellow pants with white-eyelet-trimmed pant legs.
Other: Charlie Ragg and Annie Ragg were conceived and designed by African American artist Ann Miller Woodford during the 1970s. Ms. Woodford partnered with actress Esther Rolle of Good Times sitcom fame to form the company E & A Enterprises. The dolls’ hang tags and boxes feature a signed image of Esther Rolle holding the dolls. Charlie Ragg is item number AW101. Annie Ragg is item number AW102
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