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Games & Toys through the Ages

DATES December 18, 1937 through February 13, 1938
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  • December 12, 1937 In error this story was sent to you marked for release December 22; it should be released December 12.

    On Saturday, December 18, the Brooklyn Museum will open an Exhibition of Games and Toys through the Ages. The opening will be marked. by a Christmas Celebration at 10:30 A.M. in the Sculpture Court which will feature songs, dances and pantomimes by children representing festivals in other lands. The exhibition is being assembled in cooperation with the Brooklyn Museum. It will include games, dolls and toys from various countries and different periods from ancient to modern times. The material will be drawn principally from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn children’ s Museum, The historic material of these collections will be supplemented by loans from stores showing some of the latest developments in modern toy design.

    Other children’s programs to be given are: December 22 at 3:30 P.M. in the Sculpture Court, Christmas Carol program by children In costume representing the better known carols; during the week of December 27 at 2:30 P.M. daily, one half hour program of recorded Christmas music both religious and popular.

    The program on December 18 has been arranged in cooperation with the International Institute of the YWCA. The program on December 22 has been arranged in cooperation with the Prospect Plaza Music Center, Federal Music Project, U. S. Works Progress Administration.

    Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1937 - 1939. 10-12_1937, 181-2.
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  • December 18, 1937 The Exhibition of Games and Toys through the Ages current at the Brooklyn Museum from December 18 through February 6 includes the
    following items:

    1. Egyptian wooden doll, clay head wig.

    2. Chinese tumble-down toys.

    3. Japanese Boy day, festival dolls and standards.

    4. Geisha girl doll with set of wigs showing various hair styles.

    5. Toy vehicles, such as sedan chair, outrigger canoe of South Sea Islands.

    6. Ox cart, and litter from Java.

    7. American Indian wooden doll, doll on papoose board. Clay doll from Southwest.
    Games of chance, such as guessing games in which marked pieces are concealed and must be discovered; archery; shinney stick and ball; toy pottery animals.

    8. Case of dolls representing Dutch mother and children shown with everyday utensils such as churn and milk cans, baby’s cradle, curved wooden shoes.

    9. Large case of European dolls — toys including Swedish and Danish peasant dolls. Italian Renaissance doll seated in model chair of the period. Russian Boyar dolls and furniture. Bavarian peasant hope chest. Sicilian cart.

    10. Case of children’s clothing, consisting of brother and sister costume. French, about 1870. Tyrolean bay’s outfit. Dutch wooden skates, metal runners and screws for fastening.

    11. Case of children’s books contrasting early texts and illustrations with contemporary. They are so arranged that the change in form an. the use of brilliant colors in contemporary books is very obvious.

    12. Contemporary kitchen including an electric stove on which food can actually be cooked; small size kitchen implements as well as the whistling tea pot, dripolater, roasting pan. All are so constructed that they may actually be used by the children.

    13. Two cases of period dolls: 1 - showing China doll with wardrobe consisting of undergarments, kid gloves, parasol, and bonnet. 2 - American doll of the 19th century. Wax baby doll, Bisque doll in bustle dress. China doll on ladder back chair. American paper doll and costume; about 1860.

    14. The Rem Hegeman model house; completely furnished and lighted by means, at push buttons. The Rem Hegeman House, which was a fairly typical Dutch colonial house though it was built during the latter years of the XVIIIth Century, was situated at the Southeast corner of Kings Highway and Flatbush Avenue prior to its destruction by fire August 8, 1910.


    Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1937 - 1939. 10-12_1937, 188-189.
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