Collection Highlights
Parade on Broadway for McKinley & Hobart
Date:
1896
Object Number:
PR.008.1
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
The Fishpond Game
Object Number:
INV.7873
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Wood, metal, string
Dimensions:
box: 1 3/4 x 22 5/8 x 4 in. ( 4.4 x 57.5 x 10.2 cm )
Marks:
printed: on paper label affixed to top of lid: "The/FISHPOND/A/POPULAR/AMUSEMENT/FOR BOYS AND GIRLS OF ALL AGES"
written: in black crayon on bottom of box: "Ghillclagh/FishHill/Village/New York"
Description:
Game consisting of six wooden "fishing rods" and forty-two wooden blocks representing the fishes; in original wooden box with hinged lid with "Rules for the Fishpond Game" pasted inside.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
