Toys Take Flight: The Evolution of Toy Aircraft
by The Field House Museum
Exhibition Dates: October 2022 through March 2023
Location: The Lambert Gallery East
Toy airplanes, from historic to modern times. Areas of focus include metal planes, wind-up planes, promotional coin banks shaped like planes, Hallmark Legends in Flight collectible planes, plastic and wooden planes, and model plane kits.
About the Organization: The Field House Museum
The Field House Museum was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007. It was opened December 18, 1936 as the first historic house museum in St. Louis. The Museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has also been named a City of St. Louis Landmark.
This house was Eugene’s boyhood home, and during their residence here his father Roswell M. Field served as the attorney who took Dred Scott’s freedom suit into the Federal Courts, leading to the infamous Supreme Court decision in Scott v. Sandford.
To learn more, visit: FieldHouseMuseum.org
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