Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America

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Plate 1. Philipp Otto Runge, The Hülsenbeck Children, 1805–6. Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Hamburger Kunsthalle/Art Resource, New York. Plate 2. Winky Dink and You “magic” screen, circa 1957. Photograph courtesy of The Strong Museum, Rochester, New York. Plate 3. Holgate Toy Selector, circa 1952. Courtesy of Holgate Toys. Photograph courtesy of Jessica Helfand. Plate 4. Bird puzzle, Creative Playthings, Inc., circa 1968. Photograph by James Goldwasser. Plate 5. “What’s Ahead for Me?” Certain-Teed Building Products advertisement, American Home, March 1945. Plate 6. Edward Durrell Stone, playroom of the Stech House, Armonk, New York. Published as “Build It Yourself,” Ladies’ Home Journal, April 1950. Photograph by Ezra Stoller. Copyright ESTO. All rights reserved. Plate 7. Robert Billsbrough Price, playroom in the Tacoma Home Show House, Tacoma Master Builders, 1954. Photograph by Dearborn-Massar. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, DM 6209. Plate 9. Henry Smith-Miller Project, the Boxer Box, circa 1970. Courtesy of Henry Smith-Miller, architect. Photograph by Norman McGrath. Plate 8. Henry P. Glass, Swingline Juvenile Furniture, Fleetwood Furniture Company, circa 1952. Colored pencil, pastel, and graphite on tracing paper, 33 cm × 35.3 cm (13 × 137 ⁄8 inches). Gift of Henry P. Glass, 1999.543.1, The Art Institute of Chicago. Photography copyright The Art Institute of Chicago. Plate 10. Circus tent playhouse, Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1958, 94. Plate 11. University of Michigan model classroom, 1954. Gold Seal Rubber Tile advertisement, from Progressive Architecture 35 (February 1954). Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Plate 12. School furniture, Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company catalog, circa 1954. Plate 13. Perkins and Will, Heathcote School, view of a corridor. Hedrich-Blessing, H-16711-X, Chicago History Museum. Plate 14. “Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty,” Binney & Smith advertisement, 1966. Plate 15. Amy Kasai, Jungle Gym, circa 1940. Courtesy of the Estate of Amy Kasai. Plate 16. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates and Peter J. Pearce, Curved Space, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 1975. Photograph by Norman McGrath. ...