Collection Highlights
Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth
Date:
1835
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1835.49
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
The Game of Jolly Tars
Object Number:
2000.467
Date:
ca. 1895
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood, metal
Dimensions:
Container (box): 7/8 × 9 × 15 in. (2.2 × 22.9 × 38.1 cm)
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "The GAME of/ JOLLY/ TARS/ PARKER/ BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."
Description:
"The Game of Jolly Tars" board game with four turned wooden playing pieces, a cardboard spinner with a metal arrow an apaper board applied to the bottom half of the paper covered cardboard box; board chromolithographed with a grid of blue squares between the northeast coast of the U.S. and the coasts of England and France with boats inbetween; board inscribed, "The Game of/ JOLLY/ TARS"; box cover chromolithographed with three sailors or "tars", one playing guitars, one dancing and another looking on on the deck of a boat with a steamship in the background; box cover inscribed, "The GAME of/ JOLLY/ TARS/ PARKER/ BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
