Collection Highlights
Memorial sample card
Date:
Object Number:
1947.490a
Medium:
Watercolor and hair on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bradley's Toy Town Post Office
Object Number:
2000.337
Date:
ca. 1910
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
box: 1 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 11 in. ( 3.8 x 21 x 27.9 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "BRADLEY'S/ TOY TOWN/ POST OFFICE/ THE WORLD'S/ BEST GAMES/ BRADLEY'S/ MADE IN AMERICA/ 4440"
Description:
"Bradley's Toy Town Post Office" miniature child's post office including a postman's mask, a cardboard fronticepiece and two wooden stands to create the office, seven letters with envelopes, five picture post cards, three telegrams, a cablegram, two postal orders and three sheets of stamps in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover chromolithographed with an image of two children mailing letters in a green "TOY TOWN" mailbox with letters floating above their heads; box cover inscribed, "BRADLEY'S/ TOY TOWN/ POST OFFICE/ THE WORLD'S/ BEST GAMES/ BRADLEY'S/ MADE IN AMERICA/ 4440".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
