The Merry Game of Country Auction
Classification:
Date:
1880-1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/8 x 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. ( 2.9 x 17.1 x 12.1 cm )
Description:
"The Merry Game of Country Auction" card game with 15 merchandise cards depicting items such as a cow and a carriage, 59 money cards, and an instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; cover chromolithographed with an image of an auctioneer selling items to a group of people with a barn and a hay cart in the background; box inscribed, "The MERRY GAME/ of/ THE/ COUNTRY AUCTION/ GEO. S./ PARKER/ & CO./ PUBLISHERS/ SALEM/ MASS."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.682
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "The MERRY GAME/ of/ THE/ COUNRTY AUCTION/ GEO. S./ PARKER/ & CO./ PUBLISHERS/ SALEM/ MASS."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
43915
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Anagrams Double Eagle: A Prize Game
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. (11.4 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm)
Description:
"Double Eagle Anagrams: A Prize game" table game with 179 cardboard tiles printed with a letter and a instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box has a chromolithographed image of a girl carrying a slate and flowers and being followed by a lamb; box inscribed, "DOUBLE/ EAGLE/ ANAGRAMS/ A/ PRIZE/ GAME/ McLOUGHLIN/ BROS/ NEW YORK".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.668
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "DOUBLE/ EAGLE/ ANAGRAMS/ A/ PRIZE/ GAME/ McLOUGHLIN/ BROS/ NEW YORK".
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
43914
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Golden Eagle Anagrams: A Prize game
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1889
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/2 x 3 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. ( 3.8 x 9.8 x 12.4 cm )
Description:
"The Golden Eagle Anagrams: A Prize game" table game with 160 cardboard tiles printed with a letter and an instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box has a chromolithographed image of a girl and a boy dressed as indians with feather headdresses playing with dog; box inscribed, "THE/ GOLDEN EAGLE/ Anagrams/ A PRIZE GAME/ COPYRIGHTED BY McLOUGHLIN BROS, NEW YORK, 1889."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.696
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE/ GOLDEN EAGLE/ Anagrams/ A PRIZE GAME/ COPYRIGHTED BY McLOUGHLIN BROS, NEW YORK, 1889."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1889
eMuseum Object ID:
43913
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Anagrams: A Prize game
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 6 1/8 x 8 3/4 in. ( 3.2 x 15.6 x 22.2 cm )
Description:
"Anagrams: A Prize game" table game with 260 cardboard tiles printed with a letter and a instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box has a chromolithographed image of a girl and a boy dressed as indians with feather headdresses playing with dog; box inscribed, "ANAGRAMS/ A PRIZE GAME/ DOUBLE/ EAGLE/ A GAME OF LETTERS/ A GAME OF LETTERS/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.667
Marks:
lithographed: "ANAGRAMS/ A PRIZE GAME/ DOUBLE/ EAGLE/ A GAME OF LETTERS/ A GAME OF LETTERS/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
43912
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Anagrams and Other Letter Games
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1910
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. ( 1.9 x 21 x 26 cm )
Description:
"Anagrams and Other Letter Games" table game with 418 cardboard tiles printed with a letter and an instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box has a chromolithographed image of a woman and three children playing Anagrams at a parlor table; box inscribed, "Anagrams/ AND OTHER/ LETTER GAMES/ THE WORLD'S/ BEST GAMES/ BRADLEY'S/ MADE IN AMERICA/ 4392/ MILTON BRADLEY CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS, U. S. A."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.659
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "Anagrams/ AND OTHER/ LETTER GAMES/ THE WORLD'S/ BEST GAMES/ BRADLEY'S/ MADE IN AMERICA/ 4392/ MILTON BRADLEY CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS, U. S. A."
Gallery Label:
Anagrams was one of several word-building games that gained popularity during the Victorian period. Players create words from tiles selected at random from the box and attempt to "capture" the most words to win the game.
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:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
43911
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Anagrams: The New Popular Spelling Game
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 x 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. ( 5.1 x 13.3 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
"Anagrams: The New Popular Spelling Game" table game with six wooden spelling cubes printed with a letter and two syllables on each side and an instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box has a chromolithographed image of six cubes; box inscribed, "JOLLYWISE/ Anagrams/ THE NEW/ POPULAR/ SPELLING GAME./ THE/ JOLLY WISE GAMES/ ALWAYS PLAY WELL./ PATENT APPLIED FOR/ THE MARTIN CO.".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.458
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "JOLLYWISE/ Anagrams/ THE NEW/ POPULAR/ SPELLING GAME./ THE/ JOLLY WISE GAMES/ ALWAYS PLAY WELL./ PAPTENT APPLIED FOR/ THE MARTIN CO."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
43908
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Setto: Game of Syllables
Classification:
Date:
1882
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 5 3/4 x 4 in. ( 2.5 x 14.6 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
"Setto: Game of Syllables" card game with 56 syllable cards and an instruction sheet in a paper covered cardboard box; box chromolithographed with four boys arguing over a game, with the cards and the box scattered and a cat and dog hissing at one another in the foreground; box cover inscribed, "GAME OF/ SYLLABLES/ SETTO/ UNDER PATENT OF JULY 26, 1888 (scratched out) 1881./ Published by SELCHOW & RIGHTER, New York./ Copyrighted 1882."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.685
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME OF/ SYLLABLES/ SETTO/ UNDER PATENT OF JULY 26, 1888 (scratched out) 1881./ Published by SELCHOW & RIGHTER, New York./ Copyrighted 1882."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1882
eMuseum Object ID:
43907
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Map of the United States Puzzle: Each State Cut Separate
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1894
Medium:
Wood, cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
box: 1 3/8 x 14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. ( 3.5 x 36.8 x 23.5 cm )
Description:
"Map of the United States Puzzle: Each State Cut Separate" picture puzzle with 52 pieces (missing Maine, Georgia, Arkansas, Minnesota and a piece of the Gulf of Mexico) and a printed, folded illustration of the puzzle in a cardboard box; cover lithographed with an illustration in various colors of Liberty dressed in a blue gown with draped flags, laurel leaves, oak and acorn and a U.S. shield holding a sword in one hand a a golden ball in the other; box cover inscribed, "MAP OF THE/ UNITED/ STATES/ EACH/ STATE CUT/ SEPARATE/ PUZZLE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS, NEW YORK".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.550
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "MAP OF THE/ UNITED/ STATES/ EACH/ STATE CUT/ SEPARATE/ PUZZLE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS, NEW YORK"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1894
eMuseum Object ID:
43893
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Darktown Fancy Ball Puzzle
Classification:
Date:
1894
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
box: 1 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. ( 3.2 x 24.1 x 19 cm )
Description:
"The Darktown Fancy Ball Puzzle" twenty-four piece paper covered cardboard picture puzzle of a caricatured African-American dance hall with charaterizations of African-Americans dressed as clowns, bellhops, knights, military officers, etc. in a shoddy room; box cover chromolithographed with an image of a caricatured African-American couple in a carriage, the man with feathers in his hair and the woman with a nappy around her head; box cover lithographed with the inscription, "THE/ DARKTOWN/ FANCY/ BALL/ PICTURE/ PUZZLE/ Copyright 1894/ PARKER BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS. U.S.A."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.383
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE/ DARKTOWN/ FANCY/ BALL/ PICTURE/ PUZZLE/ Copyright 1894/ PARKER BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS. U.S.A."
Gallery Label:
The theme of Darktown -- a fictitious segregated community -- was familiar to Americans of the Victorian era. Currier & Ives, the New York-based lithography firm, produced an extensive series of Darktown prints from the late 1870s through the mid-1890s, using caricatures and coarse stereotypes to lampoon blacks who moved north after the Civil War.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1894
eMuseum Object ID:
43892
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Jack the Giant Killer
Classification:
Date:
1895
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 6 x 1/8 in. ( 30.5 x 15.2 x 0.3 cm )
Description:
"Jack the Giant Killer" children's book with 12 pages of chromolithographed images of the adventures of "Jack the Giant Killer" (a british hero) accompanied by the story; chromolithographed cover of a boy dressed in medieval costume holding a sword and a giant's head; cover inscribed, "JACK/ THE/ GIANT KILLER/ COPYRIGHTED 1895/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.258
Marks:
lithographed: on the front cover: "JACK/ THE/ GIANT KILLER/ COPYRIGHTED 1895/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1895
eMuseum Object ID:
43891
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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