The company was started by the late Beatrice Alexander, whose father, Maurice Alexander, emigrated from Russia to New York in 1890 and opened a porcelain repair shop and doll hospital. After ...

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 ...

Inside the doll hospital, visitors can watch the experts construct the famous figurines such as "Cissy," the first full-figured doll which "Madame" Beatrice Alexander Behrman created in the 1950's.

Madame Alexander`s dolls may be designed to be taken night-night, to be dragged by their sturdily-implanted, ”combable” hair down a grocery store aisle, to be bathed, to be dressed and undressed.

There are antique dolls, new dolls, American Girls, Kewpies, Shirley Temples, souvenir Skookum dolls, Mrs. Beasley, Raggedy Ann, Howdy Doody, Madame Alexander, dolls made by the finest doll ...