Charlotte M. Buettenback Johnson

Johnson (1917-1997) born in Omaha. Freelance fashion designer, teacher at Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles, co-designer of Barbie doll in 1957 and 1958, director of Barbie doll wardrobe for Mattel, Inc. Consult Los Angeles Times May 13, 1964, Part 4, pp. 1, 6 and September 8, 1974, pp. X-1, X-4, X-5, X-10 and Omaha World Herald obituary, March 4, 1997, p. 10 and Kitturah Westenhouser, The Story of Barbie (Collector Books, 1994) and Crete /NE/ News, November 9, 2005, p. A-7.

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