Collection Highlights
Study of Four Tree Trunks (Three Birches)
ca. 1855
1918.325
Graphite with scratching out on beige paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Building blocks (set)
Object name
Building blocks (set)
Date
1850-1900
Medium
Wood, paint
Dimensions
box: 2 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. ( 6 x 25.1 x 19 cm )
Description
Set of 91 wooden building block units, mostly flat and rectangular, painted red, white, and blue, with "finger joint" extensions along two narrow edges.
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Catherine R.B. Mackie
Object Number
1947.241.1a-nnnn
Marks
printed: on paper label pasted to side of cardboard box: "Sample New No.2 Milwaukee CROP 1874/From W.P. McLoren & Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin"
stamped: on bottom of box: "H.R. COOPER/Maker/64 Broad St., New York"
Gallery Label
These building blocks resemble "Crandall's Building Blocks" illustrated in Educational Toys in America (See Publications). The blocks were probably given to the Society in this box, marked "H. R. COOPER,/Maker."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
