Collection Highlights
Castle Garden, New York City
Date:
1859
Object Number:
1972.13
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Sectional Birds
Object Number:
2000.419
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/8 x 11 3/8 x 11 1/2 in. ( 2.9 x 28.9 x 29.2 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "SECTIONAL BIRDS/ MILTON BRADLEY CO./ SPRINGFIELD./ MASS. 4407/ DUCK"
Description:
"Sectional Birds" puzzle in a paper covered cardboard box, with cover illustration of a duck; box cover inscribed, "SECTIONAL BIRDS/ MILTON BRADLEY CO./ SPRINGFIELD./ MASS. 4407/ DUCK"; forty-one strips of cardboard forming eight different pictures of birds such as a eagle and a swan, with each letter of the complete word printed on each strip.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
