Collection Highlights
Broadway, A.T. Stewart Dry Goods Store
Date:
1851
Object Number:
PR.020.FF.28
Medium:
1896 photo-mechanical color reproduction of an engraving
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Luce Center
The New Pretty Village Boathouse Set
Object Number:
2000.440
Date:
1897
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, metal
Dimensions:
box: 7/8 x 8 1/4 x 12 in. ( 2.2 x 21 x 30.5 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE NEW/ PRETTY VILLAGE/ BOAT HOUSE SET./ COPYRIGHT/ 1897 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ 890 Broadway/ NEW YORK."
Description:
Miniature cardboard village in a box with one complete house, six houses missing roofs, two tin stands in a paper envelope and eight paper figures, trees, and accessories; box cover lithographed with an image of a boy and girl playing with a village set on a large table while a mother holding an infant looks on; box inscribed, "THE NEW/ PRETTY VILLAGE/ BOAT HOUSE SET./ COPYRIGHT/ 1897 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ 890 Broadway/ NEW YORK."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
