Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1856-1857
Object Number:
1857.11
Medium:
Oak
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Luce Center
Hood's Sarsaparilla Book of Parlor Games
Object Number:
2000.500
Date:
1896
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/8 x 4 5/8 x 1/8 in. ( 18.1 x 11.7 x 0.3 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the front cover: "Hood's/Sarsaparilla Book of/ PARLOR GAMES/ COPYRIGHTED AND PUBLISHED BY/ C.I. HOOD & CO./ APOTHECARIES./LOWELL, MASS."
Description:
"Hood's Sarsaparilla Book of Parlor Games" children's book with 32 pages of parlor games; chromolithographed image of a girl in a pink dress holding a cat and standing beside a dog on the front cover; front cover printed with the inscription, "Hood's/Sarsaparilla Book of/ PARLOR GAMES/ COPYRIGHTED AND PUBLISHED BY/ C.I. HOOD & CO./ APOTHECARIES./LOWELL, MASS."; back cover chromolithographed with an image of a family playing a parlor game.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
