Collection Highlights
The Draft Riots in New York- The Battle in Second Avenue
Date:
1863
Object Number:
PR.020.100.4
Medium:
Wood Engraving
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Sliced Nations
Object Number:
2000.413
Date:
1881
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
box: 1 1/4 x 9 1/8 x 8 in. ( 3.2 x 23.2 x 20.3 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "SLICED NATIONS/ Companion to SLICED BIRDS, OBJECTS &ANIMALS./ PUBLISHED BY SELCHOW & RIGHTER, N.Y/ COPYRIGHT 1881 BY SELCHOW & RIGHTER"
Description:
"Sliced Nations" puzzles in a paper covered cardboard box, with cover illustration of two children playing "Sliced Nations"; box cover inscribed, "SLICED NATIONS/ Companion to SLICED BIRDS, OBJECTS &ANIMALS./ PUBLISHED BY SELCHOW & RIGHTER, N.Y/ COPYRIGHT 1881 BY SELCHOW & RIGHTER"; seventy-six strips of cardboard forming twelve different pictures of people of different nations uch as Scotch and Chinese, with each letter of the complete word printed on each strip; interior of the box cover printed with each image.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
