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Play set:The Sesame Street Alphabet Set

Colorforms1971

The Strong National Museum of Play

The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester , United States

Colorform sets evolved in the 1950s when two starving artists received a roll of pliable vinyl from a friend. The couple realized that the vinyl adhered to the semi-glossy paint of their apartment walls. From their observations, they developed a play set of vinyl pieces of geometric shapes in primary colors packaged with a sheet of laminated paper board. The first Colorforms sets were billed as "educational" toys enabling children to develop their creativity in the forms and figures they made from the basic shapes. Within a few years, Colorform sets featured characters, including familiar faces from television, comics, other media, and the doll world.

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  • Title: Play set:The Sesame Street Alphabet Set
  • Creator: Colorforms
  • Date Created: 1971
  • Location: USA
  • Subject Keywords: Sesame Street, Jim Henson, alphabet
  • Type: Play Sets
  • Medium: plastic, printed cardboard, vinyl
  • Object ID: 115.4858
  • Credit Line: A Gift from the Family of Jim Henson
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