Ella Smith (footballer)
Ella Smith may refer to: *Ella Gaunt Smith (1868–1932), American doll manufacturer *Ella Smith (actress) Ella Smith (born 6 June 1983) is an English actress. Early life While at drama school, Smith was a winner of the Carleton Hobbs Award and has since performed in more than fifteen BBC Radio productions. Career Smith made her television debut i ...

Ella Gaunt Smith
Ella Gauntt Smith (née Gauntt, Ella Louise, April 12, 1868 – April 2, 1932) was an innovative American doll manufacturer. After graduating from LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia, and marrying Samuel Swainswright Smith, Ella began working as a seamstress. She spent years repairing broken bisque dolls brought in by her neighbors and experimenting with ways to produce sturdier dolls. She eventually turned to doll manufacturing full-time, selling mostly to friends and neighbors. After experiencing early success, she exhibited her dolls at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, winning a Grand Prize for Innovation and helping establish a nationwide market for her product, and later displayed dolls at the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta, Ga. and at Jamestown Exposition. She received a patent for her design in 1905, in which she described her doll as follows: :“I made the body or trunk, the arms, legs and feet of stuffed fabric and apply over the feet and hands and as high up on the l ...
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