Title & Author:

American toy village.

Publication:

[approximately 1875] (Springfield, Mass. : Milton Bradley & Co.)

Description:

1 model village : stained, painted, printed wood, colour lithographed paper ; 9 x 8 x 8 cm or smaller in box 16 x 31 x 8 cm

Notes:
Set comprises a train station, a mid-century Gothic Revival church, a factory, and other elements of a model coastal town of the period. The church is modelled "after one still standing in Springfield, suggesting that many of the tiny buildings ... are true models also"--Collector's file
Colour lithographed paper completes the design of some of the pieces.
Set comprises a train station, a mid-century Gothic Revival church, a factory, and other elements of a model coastal town of the period. The church is modelled "after one still standing in Springfield, suggesting that many of the tiny buildings ... are true models also".--Collector's file.
In Related Ephemera: photocopy of a map of Springfield, Mass. showing the actual location of the church.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "L'architecture en jeux: jeux de construction du CCA = Buildings in boxes: architectural toys from the CCA", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 27, 1990-Mar. 31, 1991.
Exhibited: "La ville en jeux = Toy town", Centre canadien d'architecture, Oct. 22, 1997-May 31, 1998.
Exhibited: "L'architecture en jeux: jeux de construction du CCA = Buildings in boxes: architectural toys from the CCA", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 27, 1990-Mar. 31, 1991.
Exhibited: "La ville en jeux = Toy town", Centre canadien d'architecture, Oct. 22, 1997-May 31, 1998.

Summary:

Milton Bradley "started business in 1860 [and] turned to games primarily to keep busy the lithograph press he had purchased". The company was established in Springfield, Massachusetts, and manufactured games, trains, paints and crayons, guns, optical toys, puzzles and many other items including building blocks and model houses. (Cf. I. and M. McClintock. Toys in America. Washington, D.C., 1961). It was the first to market in the U.S. the kindergarten "gifts" of Friedrich Froebel, never, apparently, produced commercially in Germany. The company is still active in the manufacture of toys and to-day is a division of Hasbro, Inc

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Subject:

Bradley, Milton, 1836-1911.
Milton Bradley & Co.
Wooden toys United States Specimens.
Toys United States Specimens.
Jouets en bois États-Unis Spécimens.
Jouets États-Unis Spécimens.
Toys.
Wooden toys.
United States.

Form/genre:

Specimens.

Added entries:

Milton Bradley & Co.

Holdings:

Location: Library main jouets et jeux 61149
Call No.: TS2301.T7.W6 M54 1875
Status: Available