Collection Highlights
Twenty-third Street west of Sixth Avenue
Date:
1900
Object Number:
PR.020.FF.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Robbing the Miller
Object Number:
2000.351
Date:
1888
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood
Dimensions:
Open (board): 7 5/8 × 15 1/8 in. (19.4 × 38.4 cm)
Container (box): 7/8 × 8 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (2.2 × 21.6 × 21.6 cm)
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME OF/ ROBBING/ THE/ MILLER/ COPYRIGHTED/ 1888 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S NY"
Description:
"Robbing the Miller" board game with bi-fold paper covered cardboard board, a paper instruction booklet and 40 multi-colored wooden playing pieces in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover chromolithographed with a windmill and a medallion vignette of two boys running with sacks in their arms; box cover inscribed, "GAME OF/ ROBBING/ THE/ MILLER/ COPYRIGHTED/ 1888 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S NY"; board chromolithographed with four granaries with gates and a red, yellow and black squared path around the edge of the board and the granaries; bottom half of the box has a spinner pasted to the base (missing teetotem).
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
