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Architect's Sign
ca. 1837
1953.197
Wood
Original Owner: John Butler Snook

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American Fire Department: A Sectional Picture Toy

American Fire Department: A Sectional Picture Toy
Title
American Fire Department: A Sectional Picture Toy
Object name 
Picture puzzle
Date 
1882
Medium 
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions 
box: 1 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. ( 3.8 x 19 x 24.8 cm )
Description 
"American Fire Department: A Sectional Picture Toy" with five chromolithographed picture puzzles of fire vehicles including a Hook and Ladder, Chemical Wagon, Steam Pumper, Fire Patrol Wagon and a pumper in a wooden box with an applied paper label; box cover chromolithographed with fire fighters at a burning building, one on a ladder, one holding a rescued child and one holding a trumpet; box cover lithographed with the inscription, "AMERICAN/ FIRE DEPARTMENT/ A SECTIONAL/ PICTURE/ TOY/ PATENTED MAY 30. 1882/ MILTON BRADLEY & Co./ SPRINGFIELD, MASS."
Credit Line 
The Liman Collection