Museum Collections
Luce Center
A B C Blocks
Title
A B C Blocks
Object name
Alphabet blocks
Date
ca. 1883
Medium
Wood, paper
Dimensions
box: 1 1/2 x 8 7/8 x 10 in. ( 3.8 x 22.5 x 25.4 cm )
Description
"A B C Blocks" alphabet blocks with twenty paper covered wooden blocks in a wood box with a sliding lid with an applied paper label; label chromolithographed with an image of a clown showing a little girl a box of "ABC BLOCKS" in a parlor; label inscibed, "ABC/ J.H.S./ NEW YORK/ No. 2/ ABC/ BLOCKS/ J. H. SINGER"; one side of each block chromolithographed with a letter and a corresponding action or object such as "AIM" for "A", reverse of the blocks are six puzzles representing Uncle Sam, Santa Claus, a soldier, a man plting clarinet, a man playing mandolin and a fat man, sides of blocks have soldiers and bricks.
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.244
Marks
lithographed: on the label: "ABC/ J.H.S./ NEW YORK/ No. 2/ ABC/ BLOCKS/ J. H. SINGER"
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.





