Collection Highlights
A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...
Date:
1697
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Benjamin.Bullivant
Medium:
Pen and ink on paper
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Game of Dr. Busby
Object Number:
1992.12.6
Date:
1900-1930
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
box: 1 x 5 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. ( 2.5 x 13 x 10.5 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on box lid, top: "GAME OF/DR. BUSBY/PLAY CUCKOO FOR FUN"
lithographed: on box lid, bottom: "PUBLISHED BY J.H. SINGER, N.Y."
printed: captions at the bottom of each card: e.g. "CAESAR MELON, Dr. Busby's Coachman."; "BULLY BOY, The Butcher's
Description:
Card game consisting of 20 playing cards in cardboard box; cardboard box covered in dark red paper with cover illustration of man in orange hat and green trench coat, standing behind raised counter and holding silvery jug out to crowd of people, with red banner flying above; each playing card with a cartoon-like picture and caption (in various colors); each "family" has an identifying motif marked on the upper left corner of the card: melon, bull's horn, fish, mortar and pestle, and corn.
Gallery Label:
The Game of Dr. Busby, an American version of the English Happy Families, was first devised by Anne W. Abbott, daughter of a clergyman in Beverly, MA and issued by the W.S.B. Ives Company of Salem, MA, in the 1840s. (See Publications)
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
