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Ongoing Exhibition Two Hundred Years of Black Paper Dolls: The Collection of Arabella Grayson Ongoing Exhibition , 10 am - 5 pm Anacostia Community Museum When she was a child, collector Arabella Grayson became interested in finding paper dolls that looked like her. Her interest became a lifelong passion. The dolls in her international collection reflect social perceptions of people of African descent, including caricatures and stereotypes. The earliest piece on display is one of the earliest African American paper dolls: an 1863 image of the character Topsey from Uncle Tom’s Cabin.