Game, Concentration Wildlife Edition
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Object Details
- 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
- 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
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Women Mathematicians
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Mathematical Recreations
- Record ID
- nmah_1692419
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b1-b06d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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