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- TYCO "Dream Builders" Super Blocks Building Set, 1992 - Girls can build, too -- even though most early construction toys had been targeted to boys. In the early 1990s, Tyco decided to tap this previously overlooked market and produced "Dream Builders" sets. With these pastel-colored bricks, girls could create teen bedrooms, kitchens, shopping malls, playgrounds and other play sets -- or create a world of their own.

- 1992
- Collections - Artifact
TYCO "Dream Builders" Super Blocks Building Set, 1992
Girls can build, too -- even though most early construction toys had been targeted to boys. In the early 1990s, Tyco decided to tap this previously overlooked market and produced "Dream Builders" sets. With these pastel-colored bricks, girls could create teen bedrooms, kitchens, shopping malls, playgrounds and other play sets -- or create a world of their own.
- Trade Card for Dr. Jayne's Patent Medicines, "The Talking Well," 1880-1900 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.

- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Dr. Jayne's Patent Medicines, "The Talking Well," 1880-1900
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- TYCO "Dream Builders" Super Blocks Building Set, 1991-1992 - Girls can build, too -- even though most early construction toys had been targeted to boys. In the early 1990s, Tyco decided to tap this previously overlooked market and produced "Dream Builders" sets. With these pastel-colored bricks, girls could create teen bedrooms, kitchens, shopping malls, playgrounds and other play sets -- or create a world of their own.

- 1991-1992
- Collections - Artifact
TYCO "Dream Builders" Super Blocks Building Set, 1991-1992
Girls can build, too -- even though most early construction toys had been targeted to boys. In the early 1990s, Tyco decided to tap this previously overlooked market and produced "Dream Builders" sets. With these pastel-colored bricks, girls could create teen bedrooms, kitchens, shopping malls, playgrounds and other play sets -- or create a world of their own.