Flash Cards, Fractions
date: label: date made
content: ca 1903
name: label: maker
content: Cincinnati Game Company
notes: label: Description
content: This educational game consists of fifty-six cards, a pamphlet of instructions, and a case with lid. It is one of a series of games designed under the general editorship of Richard G. Boone and the immediate editorship of David Eugene Smith by E.W. Wilkinson, principal of the First Intermediate School in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Cincinnati Game Company was a subsidiary of the U.S. Playing Card Company, formed from the Fireside Game Company in 1900 to publish instructive games for use in the schools.
label: Description
content: The cards in this game have a scene showing several children gathered around a blackboard and a card table. An adult is on the right, reading. Various fractions are shown around the edge. On the front of each card is a fraction. A pamphlet of instructions explains play. The cards and pamphlet fit in a red cardboard box. A mark on the lid reads: EDUCATIONAL GAMES (/) FRACTIONS (/) COPYRIGHTED, 1902, BY (/) THE CINCINNATI GAME Co. (/) CINCINNATI, O.
label: Description
content: Compare 2014.0293.06, 2014.0293.07, and 2014.0293.08.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
label: Subject
content: Education
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Arithmetic Teaching
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Teaching Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0293.08
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0293.08
label: accession number
content: 2014.0293
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flash cards
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 6.8 cm x 9.2 cm; 31/32 in x 2 11/16 in x 3 5/8 in