Games of Ambuscade, Constellations and Bounce

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1875
Medium: 
Wood, cardboard, paper, celluloid
Dimensions: 
overall (closed): 2 x 7 1/4 x 14 in. ( 5.1 x 18.4 x 35.6 cm )
Description: 
"Games of Ambuscade, Constellations and Bounce" board game with a paper instruction booklet, twenty celluloid playing chips and a hinged box that opens like a book with two boards on the interior and one on the exterior; on the interior one side is a green field with two large stars surrounded by stars and flowers, the opposite side has a path of brown and black squares around the edge, surrounding an inner path of green and red circles around a star and geometric form; box opens to a board with a path around men on a cliff looking down on another group of men, with four semicurcular paths leading off the main circle to star forms numbered one through six and to shield-shaped end points; game board slides into a paper covered cardboard sleeve with a chromolithograped label applied to the front with an image of a boy holding snowballs and the inscription, "GAMES OF/ Ambuscade,/ CONSTELLATIONS/ AND/ BOUNCE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK,".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.676
Marks: 
lithographed: on the label: "GAMES OF/ Ambuscade,/ CONSTELLATIONS/ AND/ BOUNCE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK,"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1875
eMuseum Object ID: 
44390
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Young Folk's Cube Puzzle: Little Bo Peep

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1875
Medium: 
Wood, paper, cardboard
Dimensions: 
Container (box): 2 × 6 1/8 × 7 3/4 in. (5.1 × 15.6 × 19.7 cm)
Description: 
"Young Folk's Cube Puzzle: Little Bo Peep" with twelve cube puzzle blocks in a paper covered cardboard and wooden box; chromolithographed image on the box cover of a caricature of a young man and woman courting with an old woman in the background looking on; box cover lithographed with the inscription, "YOUNG FOLK'S CUBE PUZZLE/ LITTLE BO PEEP"; images on the blocks include the image on the box cover of "Little Bo-Peep and the Old Woman's Shy Son", "Little Bo-Peep", "Little Bo-Peep Meets a Raven", "Little Bo-Peep Dreaming", "Bo-Peep restoring the Form of the Princess" and "Elves with Bo-Peep's Sheep".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.224
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "YOUNG FOLK'S CUBE PUZZLE/ LITTLE BO PEEP"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1875
eMuseum Object ID: 
44363
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Wonder blocks

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1885
Medium: 
Wood, paper, cardboard
Dimensions: 
Overall: 1 1/8 x 7 7/8 x 8 in. ( 2.9 x 20 x 20.3 cm )
Description: 
"Wonder Blocks and Steam Cars" picture blocks with nine paper covered wooden blocks in a paper covered cardboard box; each block lithographed with three sequential letters of the alphabet and image that begin with that letter on the obverse, and train parts on the reverse; sides chromolithographed with letters of the alphabet on two sides; box cover chromolithographed with the "A B C" block and an old woman holding eggs with a rooster at her feet; box cover inscribed, "WONDER/ BLOCKS/ J.H.S. N.Y./ AND/ STEAM CARS".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.272
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "WONDER/ BLOCKS/ J.H.S. N.Y./ AND/ STEAM CARS"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1885
eMuseum Object ID: 
44361
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Picture blocks

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1900
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
Container (box): 2 × 10 1/4 × 8 7/8 in. (5.1 × 26 × 22.5 cm)
Description: 
Thirty cube puzzle blocks in a paper covered wooden box; chromolithographed image on the box top of two girls and a dog in a garden; images on the blocks include the image on the box cover, three girls playing with a rabbit, five children having a tea party, three girls watching a boy set off a toy cannon with a beach in the background, three children holding hands one with a picnic basket and three children with two dogs; three chromolithographed images on cardboard of three of the puzzles.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.230
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1900
eMuseum Object ID: 
44360
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

A B C Blocks

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1883
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
Container (box): 1 1/2 × 8 7/8 × 10 in. (3.8 × 22.5 × 25.4 cm)
Description: 
"A B C Blocks" alphabet blocks with twenty paper covered wooden blocks in a wood box with a sliding lid with an applied paper label; label chromolithographed with an image of a clown showing a little girl a box of "ABC BLOCKS" in a parlor; label inscibed, "ABC/ J.H.S./ NEW YORK/ No. 2/ ABC/ BLOCKS/ J. H. SINGER"; one side of each block chromolithographed with a letter and a corresponding action or object such as "AIM" for "A", reverse of the blocks are six puzzles representing Uncle Sam, Santa Claus, a soldier, a man plting clarinet, a man playing mandolin and a fat man, sides of blocks have soldiers and bricks.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.244
Marks: 
lithographed: on the label: "ABC/ J.H.S./ NEW YORK/ No. 2/ ABC/ BLOCKS/ J. H. SINGER"
Bibliography: 
Hofer, Margaret K. "The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board & Table Games." New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1883
eMuseum Object ID: 
44359
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Alphabet of Country Scenes

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1890
Medium: 
Wood, paper, cardboard
Dimensions: 
box: 4 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. ( 11.1 x 26 x 33.7 cm )
Description: 
Six paper covered wooden alphabet blocks in a paper covered wood and cardboard box; box cover chromolithographed with three images, sheep, cows and a boy feeding a calf; box cover inscribed, "ALPHABET/ OF/ COUNTRY/ SCENES/ NEW YORK/ McLOUGHLIN BRO's"; each block has four country vignettes around the sides representing a letter of the alphabet, the ends have verses describing each scene.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.255
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "ALPHABET/ OF/ COUNTRY/ SCENES/ NEW YORK/ McLOUGHLIN BRO's"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1890
eMuseum Object ID: 
44358
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Christmas Blocks, Picture Stories and Rhymes

Classification: 
Date: 
1890
Medium: 
Wood, paper, cardboard
Dimensions: 
box: 3 x 12 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. ( 7.6 x 32.4 x 21 cm )
Description: 
"Christmas Blocks, Picture Stories and Rhymes" picture blocks with nine paper covered wood blocks in a paper covered wood and cardboard box; box cover has an image of an anthropomorphized frog walking arm in arm with a rat with insects accompaning them and birds on a fence in the background; box cover lithographed with the inscriptions, "CHRISTMAS BLOCKS/ PICTURES, STORIES & RHYMES/ TWO LITTLE BIRDIES/ THE FROG WHO WOULD A WOOING GO/ A SUMMER VACATION/ THE ELFLAND RAILROAD/ McLOUGHLIN BROS New York/ COPYRIGHTED 1890"; each block with the alphabet letters on each end; sides chromolithographed with images of an "ELFLAND RAILROAD" train, a rhyme about insects with a corresponding image, birds, and images of "A Frog a-Wooing".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.254
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1890
eMuseum Object ID: 
44357
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Picture blocks

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1900
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
box: 2 1/4 x 10 7/8 x 7 1/4 in. ( 5.7 x 27.6 x 18.4 cm )
Description: 
Twenty-four cube puzzle blocks in a paper covered wooden box with a metal hook and eye closure; chromolithographed image on the box top of five children in costume dancing; images on the blocks include the image on the box cover, children skating, a group of four children fishing, a boy on a bicycle passing an open air market, five children playing with a dog and cat and a group of children running.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.251
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1900
eMuseum Object ID: 
44356
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Picture blocks

Classification: 
Date: 
1876
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
box: 2 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. ( 5.7 x 24.1 x 28.6 cm )
Description: 
Thirty cube puzzle blocks in a paper covered wooden box; four horizontal chromolithographed images on the box top of activities and animals starting with "M/ N/ O/ P", including mischievous monkeys, Indian animals, swimming otters and wallowing pigs; box cover inscribed, "M/ IS/ For/ MOST/ MISCHIEVOUS/ HE/ N/ is A/ from/ INDIA/ you/ SEE/ O/ IS/ FOR/ THAT SWIMS/ FAST AWAY/ P/ For the/ WHO ARE/ eating/ ALL/ DAY"; six sets of images on the blocks including a man seated on a pew and two women in the doorway of a house.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.250
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box top: "M/ IS/ For/ MOST/ MISCHIEVOUS/ HE/ N/ is A/ from/ INDIA/ you/ SEE/ O/ IS/ FOR/ THAT SWIMS/ FAST AWAY/ P/ For the/ WHO ARE/ eating/ ALL/ DAY" on box top, bottom right corner: "E. & B."
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1876
eMuseum Object ID: 
44355
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Games of Cats and Mice, Gantalope and Lost Diamond

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1875
Medium: 
Wood, cardboard, paper, metal
Dimensions: 
overall (closed): 2 x 7 1/8 x 13 7/8 in. ( 5.1 x 18.1 x 35.2 cm )
Description: 
"Games of Cats and Mice, Gantalope and Lost Diamond" board game with a hinged box that opens like a book with two boards on the interior; one side is a grid of yellow and purple numbered squares surrounded by a path of green circles labeled "MAIN ROAD" and "HOME" and the other side is an oval path of yellow and maroon squares around four paths labeled "GOAL" that stretch out into arms labeled "HOME"; box opens to a board with paths of green and yellow squares divided by silhouettes of cats all around chromolithographed images of mice in a barn; side of box lithographed, "GAMES OF CATS AND MICE/ GANTALOPE and LOST DIAMOND" game board paper cover from the original sleeve with a chromolithograped label with an image of mice being chased by a cat and the inscription, "GAMES OF/ CATS AND MICE/ GANTALOPE and/ LOST DIAMOND/ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S, NEW YORK."; double-arrow spinner on a wooden block.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.660
Marks: 
lithographed: on the side of the box: "GAMES OF CATS AND MICE/ GANTELOPE and LOST DIAMOND" lithographed: on the label: "GAMES OF/ CATS AND MICE/ GANTLOPE and/ LOST DIAMOND/ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S, NEW YORK."
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1875
eMuseum Object ID: 
44354
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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