Doctor Dolittle Counting and Spelling Board # 1059 by Bar-Zim Toy Manufacturing Company
date: label: date made
content: 1967
name: label: images on object
content: Twentieth Century Fox
label: maker
content: Bar-Zim Toy Manufacturers
notes: label: Description
content: Spelling and Counting Board was produced in 1967 as a tie-in to the Dr. Doolittle movie by Twentieth Century Fox. This educational toy is a square shaped piece of heavy compressed paperboard with letter tiles on one side and number tiles on the reverse. 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. The letter side has a green center and depicts four movie scenes featuring actor Rex Harrison in character and a variety of animal co-stars. The number side has a red center, one movie scene and several animals, identified by species.
label: Description
content: 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; distributed
content: United States: New Jersey, Jersey City
topic: label: used
content: Education
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0244.056
label: accession number
content: 2014.0244
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0244.056
label: model number
content: 1059
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spelling and counting board
label: Object Type
content: educational toys
label: Object Type
content: educational toys
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.6 cm x 30.3 cm x 1.5 cm; 12 1/16 in x 11 15/16 in x 19/32 in