Collection Highlights
Brown Brothers, Irving Place, showing east side from Eighteenth Street to Gramercy Park South
Date:
March, 1909
Object Number:
PR.020.19.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Little Folks Color Kit
Object Number:
2000.494
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood, paint and string
Dimensions:
Container (box): 1 × 21 × 18 1/2 in. (2.5 × 53.3 × 47 cm)
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "LITTLE FOLKS/ COLOR KIT/ MILTON BRADLEY CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS."
Description:
Child's paint and color kit in a paper covered cardboard box; box has five compartments filled with 31 water color cards printed with farm animals, 25 crayon cards with molded images of exotic animals and farm animals, a paintbrush, 2 tissue paper instruction sheets, and five paper numbers; in three compartments, black strings are run through to hold missing paint tubes and brushes; one compartment has three attached wooden paint pots; box cover lithographed with a young girl seated at an easel painting a Venitian canal scene; cover inscribed, "LITTLE FOLKS/ COLOR KIT/ MILTON BRADLEY CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
