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Picture blocks

ca. 1900
Wood, paper
Container (box): 2 × 10 1/4 × 8 7/8 in. (5.1 × 26 × 22.5 cm)
The Liman Collection
2000.230
DescriptionThirty cube puzzle blocks in a paper covered wooden box; chromolithographed image on the box top of two girls and a dog in a garden; images on the blocks include the image on the box cover, three girls playing with a rabbit, five children having a tea party, three girls watching a boy set off a toy cannon with a beach in the background, three children holding hands one with a picnic basket and three children with two dogs; three chromolithographed images on cardboard of three of the puzzles.
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