Object Details
maker
National Wildlife Federation
Description
This "entertaining and approved educational game" consists of forty playing cards. Each card has a drawing of a plant or animal on it, with appropriate background. Instructions describe playing the game and give information about the wildlife shown. The cards and instructions are in a box. One card has a back that is a different color than the others.
The mathematician Olive C. Hazlett once owned this game. For related objects, see 1998.0314 and 2015.3004.
According to Dan Gifford, former archivist at the National Wildlife Foundation, the cards date from about 1959 (when the character Rick the Racoon (later called Ranger Rick) that is shown on the back of the cards was introduced) to 1961.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Hermitage of St. Joseph
date made
1959-1961
ca 1959-1961
ID Number
2015.0027.08
accession number
2015.0027
catalog number
2015.0027.08
Object Name
game
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 2.3 cm x 6.4 cm x 9.4 cm; 29/32 in x 2 17/32 in x 3 11/16 in
place made
United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Women Mathematicians
Science & Mathematics
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Mathematical Recreations
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1692419