Well this evening I managed to find some contact details for the NIADA and send an email! Fingers crossed I hear back from the lady I wrote to, or one of the other members of the NIADA.
NIADA stands for National Institure of American Doll Artists. It's an organisation that supports handmade doll artists worldwide, and was founded in 1963. If Sarah's dolls found a network of collectors in America, I wonder if she, or her dolls, have featured in any early publications the NIADA may have produced?
It's hard to know how to pitch an email of this nature. It musn't be sentimental, but this is obviously a very personal journey. I am asking anyone I contact to spend a bit of their precious time looking in archives, or point me in the right direction...or even run a small feature on Sarah Jane Fisher's dolls to see if anyone out there has one, remembers them or seen them displayed anywhere.
I hope I have pitched it right...
If anyone would like to read a bit about the NIADA, here is the link: http://www.niada.org/about.html
And in the meantime, I found an old photo of one of Sarah's dolls in an album. The photo itself is slightly out of focus.
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