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Picture Block

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Collection Type

  • Toys and games

Date

1850-1874

GUSN

GUSN-72950

Description

Rectangular box with slide lid; eighty square blacks with genre scenes each side; multicolored

Details

Descriptive Terms

picture blocks
coloring
lithography
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Block, Toy
Block, Picture
Block, Picture

Associated Building

Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

15 3/8 x 19 x 2 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman

Accession Number

1969.4793

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