Artist/Maker
McLoughlin Brothers
(American, 1854 – 1921)
ABC & Picture Blocks: The House That Jack Built
1897
Place madeNew York, New York, United States, North America
Wood, paper
Container (box): 1 1/8 × 14 5/8 × 7 7/8 in. (2.9 × 37.1 × 20 cm)
The Liman Collection
2000.405
Description"ABC & Picture Blocks: The House That Jack Built" with twelve paper covered rectanugular wooden alphabet blocks in a paper covered cardboard box; each block depicts a character or object from the story of "The House that Jack Built" on the obverse, a nursery rhyme on the reverse, letters from the alphabet one one side and animals on the other; box cover lithographed with an image of a house with the people and an ox in the foreground; box cover inscribed, "A.B.C. &/ PICTURE BLOCKS/ &/ THE HOUSE/ THAT/ JACK BUILT./ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S, NEW YORK. COPYRIGHTED 1891.". Markingslithographed: on the box cover: "A.B.C. &/ PICTURE BLOCKS/ &/ THE HOUSE/ THAT/ JACK BUILT./ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S, NEW YORK. COPYRIGHTED 1891."
ClassificationsTOYS
Collections
- Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
