Collection Highlights
Petition to Abraham Lincoln for recruitment of black troops
Date:
ca. 1862
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Petitions
Medium:
Paper
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Luce Center
The Game of Old Maid
Object Number:
2000.640
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
box: 1 x 4 5/8 x 3 3/4 in. ( 2.5 x 11.7 x 9.5 cm )
each card: 3 5/8 x 2 1/2 in. ( 9.2 x 6.4 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME of/ OLD/ MAID/ McLOUGHLIN BROS, N.Y"
Description:
"The Game of Old Maid" card game with 35 chromolithographed paper playing cards in a paper covered cardboard box; cards printed in pairs with caricatures such as "Goose Jockey" and "Bertie Batty" printed on each, and a single old maid; box chromolithographed with two medallion portraits, one of an old man and one of an old woman holding a cat; box cover inscribed, "GAME of/ OLD/ MAID/ McLOUGHLIN BROS, N.Y".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
