Object Details
- Description
- Educational parquetry tile games were common as a kindergarten or primary grade manipulative. “Liberty Blocks, The Patriotic Instructor” was created during World War I by Mutual Manufacturing of Dayton, Ohio as a toy to show support for American, Canadian, and British troops, though a few other countries are listed. The game consists of wooden tiles or “blocks” cut on the diagonal, and painted on both sides with different designs in varying combinations of red, white, and blue. The instructions illustrate possible designs and patterns associated with flag symbolism and are also indicative of various quilt patterns. The imagery is representative of Americanization in the classroom. Because they were painted wood they could be easily cleaned, which was particularly important during the flu epidemic and is alway useful given the age of the users.
- Mutual Manufacturing was founded in 1899 and became Modern Specialty Company, headquartered in Chicago.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
- patent date
- 1916
- copyrite date
- 1918
- ID Number
- 2014.0244.270
- accession number
- 2014.0244
- catalog number
- 2014.0244.2
- Object Name
- game
- Object Type
- educational toys
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- cardboard (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 28.5 cm x 26 cm x 1 cm; 11 7/32 in x 10 1/4 in x 13/32 in
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Dayton
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Education
- National Museum of American History
- used
- Education
- Record ID
- nmah_1803661
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-a628-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
