Game, Concentration Wildlife Edition
date: label: date made
content: 1959-1961
label: date made
content: ca 1959-1961
name: label: maker
content: National Wildlife Federation
notes: label: Description
content: This "entertaining and approved educational game" consists of forty playing cards. Each card has a drawing of a plant or animal on it, with appropriate background. Instructions describe playing the game and give information about the wildlife shown. The cards and instructions are in a box. One card has a back that is a different color than the others.
label: Description
content: The mathematician Olive C. Hazlett once owned this game. For related objects, see 1998.0314 and 2015.3004.
label: Description
content: According to Dan Gifford, former archivist at the National Wildlife Foundation, the cards date from about 1959 (when the character Rick the Racoon (later called Ranger Rick) that is shown on the back of the cards was introduced) to 1961.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Women Mathematicians
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hermitage of St. Joseph
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0027.08
label: accession number
content: 2015.0027
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0027.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: game
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.3 cm x 6.4 cm x 9.4 cm; 29/32 in x 2 17/32 in x 3 11/16 in