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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
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F. Ad. Richter & Co
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Gaskell, Anna
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Hare, Elizabeth Sage
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Pickering & Inglis
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Trentsensky, Matthias, 1790–1868
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Under Certain Circumstances
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Free to Use
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Period
19th century
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18th century
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20th century
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21st century
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recreation
48
lithograph
21
toy theater
18
drama
16
juvenile work
16
play
16
tunnel book
11
hand coloring
9
etching
7
building block
6
game
6
toy
6
devotional literature
3
engraving
3
playing card
3
prayer
3
promise boxe
3
accordion fold format (binding)
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aquatint
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chromolithograph
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Children's plays, English.
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Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Block building (Children's activity)
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Bible -- Prayers.
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Families -- Prayers and devotions.
3
Geographical recreations -- Specimens.
2
Toy theaters.
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Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861.
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Amusements.
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Artists' books -- United States.
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Ballads, English -- Juvenile drama.
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Blocks (Toys)
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Boppard (Germany) -- Pictorial works.
1
Bridges -- England -- London.
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Carnival -- Italy -- Venice.
1
Cary, Mary Flagler -- Ownership.
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Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892–1941 -- Ownership.
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Catholic Church -- Customs and practices.
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19th century
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18th century
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Great Britain
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England
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Boppard (Germany)
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Edinburgh (Scotland)
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Egypt
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Germany
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Grassmarket (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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London
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Netherlands
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New York
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New York (State)
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Piazza San Marco (Venice, Italy)
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Postdam
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Quinta da Regaleira (Sintra, Portugal)
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Regent's Park (London, England)
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Rhine River
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Rhine River Valley
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Venice (Italy)
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Wales
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Waterloo Bridge (London, England)
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Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
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Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
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La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de, 1777–1843
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Norton family
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Powers, Hiram, 1805–1873
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Saunders, Erasmus, 1812–1872
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Saunders, Sophia
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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
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Exhibition History
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louis G. Audette, Yale BA 1962, BFA 1963, MS 1965
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Miko McGinty, Yale BA 1993, MFA 1998, in honor of Elisabeth Fairman.
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English
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German
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French
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No linguistic content
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Dutch
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Polish
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Universal building-blocks box =
[late 19th century?]
2
Aladdin, or, The Wonderful lamp
[between 1876 and 1917]
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Peep egg viewer of Weymouth, Dorset
ca. 1855
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Wallis's new railway game, or, Tour through England and Wales
[approximately 1844]
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The maid and the magpie
[between 1876 and 1917]
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The blue jackets, or, Her majesty's service
[between 1876 and 1917]
7
Model of HMS Victory
2018
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[Teleorama]
[approximately 1825?]
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Court game of geography
[between 1838 and 1855]
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[All the bubbles]
[1720]
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The woodman's hut, or, The burning forest
[between 1876 and 1917]
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Pyramiden Spiel =
[ca. 1835?]
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Gaskell, Anna
[Peep show]
[2001]
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Der Würfel in 6 verschiedenen Spielen =
[1850?]
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Fortune-telling wheels
circa 1870
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Industrial exhibition of all nations
[1851]
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The Corsican brothers, or, The fatal duel
[between 1876 and 1917]
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The blind boy
[between 1876 and 1917]
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Teleorama
[183-?]
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The brigand
[between 1876 and 1917]
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Whittington and his cat, or, Harlequin Lord Mayor of London
[between 1876 and 1917]
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Hare, Elizabeth Sage
The world of tomorrow, New York World's Fair
1939]
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A peep at the fox chace
1829
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Promise, prayer, poetry
[ca. 1890?]
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Dutch historical card game
[approximately 1788]
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Pickering & Inglis
Promise box of Bible verses
late 19th century?
27
Das Schloss zu Edinburg =
[1835?]
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The miller and his men
[between 1876 and 1917]
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The Battle of Waterloo
[between 1876 and 1917]
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The children in the wood
[between 1873 and 1892]
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Trentsensky, Matthias, 1790–1868
Das Volksleben in Venedig, die Piazetta
[circa 1854]
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Optique no. 2
[ca. 1825]
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Copper plate used to print an illustration of St. Uldibrand, in a scene from Undine
between 1840 and 1860?
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A new and original comic Christmas pantomime Sleeping Beauty in the wood!, or, Harlequin and the magic horn
[between 1876 and 1917]
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Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
The portable diorama
1826
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An authentic view of the Great Industrial Exhibition Palace of 1851
[1851?]
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The daughter of the regiment
[between 1876 and 1917]
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King Henry, or, The miller of Mansfield
[between 1876 and 1917]
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F. Ad. Richter & Co
Patent stone building box no. 5
[approximately 1885]
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Exceeding great and precious promises
[early 20th century]
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Waterloo Bridge dissected into 151 pieces
[ca. 1830?]
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Das Rheinthal
[approximately 1850]
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The silver palace, and the golden poppy
[between 1876 and 1917]
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Polyorama panoptique
1850s
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Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress
[between 1876 and 1917]
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Unterhaltendes Mosaic-Spiel =
[circa 1850?]
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[Peepshow of a rural scene]
[ca. 1824?]
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The areaorama
May 1, 1825