Romper Room Assorted Picture Flash Cards
date: label: date made
content: ca 1961
name: label: maker
content: Bar-Zim Toy Manufacturers
notes: label: Description
content: This toy is designed to teach preschool children letters and numbers. The set includes nine cards for digits and 26 cards for letters of the alphabet. The top of each card shows either a number written out in letters and a corresponding number of objects (e.g., the number "ONE" and one pencil) or a capital letter and a familiar object whose name begins with that letter (e.g., B and a blackboard). On the lower part of the card are a scattered array of either digits (e.g., 1, 3, 7) or small letters (e.g., b, m, d). A red plastic stand with an array of holes in it fits over the bottom of a card. It reveals only the digit or letter that corresponds to the picture above.
label: Description
content: A mark on the remnant of the cover of the box reads: ASSORTED PICTURE FLASH CARDS. A second mark reads: No. 301. A third mark reads: BAR-ZIM MANUFACTURING CO., JERSEY CITY, N.J. A fourth mark reads: U.S. PAT. NO. 2,971,268. Individual cards are marked: THE (/) ROMPER (/) ROOM.
label: Description
content: The design of the cards is based on a patent of Harry Zimmerman of New York, N.Y., (#2,971,268, applied for December 29, 1959, and granted February 14, 1961).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Jersey City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: used
content: Education
label: referenced
content: Children's television programs
label: used
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Women's History
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Women Teaching Math
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Arithmetic Teaching
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sherman L. and Marjorie A. Naidorf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0055.10
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0055.10
label: accession number
content: 2005.0055
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flash cards
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (cards material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (stand material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 11 cm x 13.5 cm; 31/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 5 5/16 in