Little Scholar Spelling and Counting Board by Bar-Zim
date: label: date made
content: 1950-1960
name: label: maker
content: Bar-Zim Toy Manufacturers
notes: label: Description
content: This teaching device was designed for students to move blocks with letters on tracks to assemble words or even sentences in the middle two center tracks, and on the rear side to move numbers and operators around for elementary math equations. This is 12'x12" hard-pressed, double sided cardboard board has 31 wooden tiles with letters on one side and numbers on the other side. The letter side as a border of 28 yellow squares with images of common objects and the word spelled under the image.
label: Description
content: Little Scholar Spelling and Counting Board was manufactured by Bar-Zim Manufacturing Company. Bar-Zim Toy manufacturing Company was incorporated in New York City with capital stock of $8,000 by Harry Zimmerman, William Bartholomae, and Abraham B. Wolpin in May of 1916. The company moved its headquarters to New Jersey in October 1938 and held numerous patents and trademarks for games and toys throughout much of the 20th Century. The company was dissolved July 13, 1971.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Jersey City
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0041.02
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0041.02
label: accession number
content: 2016.0041
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spelling and counting board
label: Object Type
content: educational toys
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard; wood; metal; ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue; red; white; yellow (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 12 in x 1/4 in; 30.48 cm x 30.48 cm x .635 cm