Museum Collections
Luce Center
The Young Athlete
Object Number:
2000.330
Date:
1898
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 22 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. ( 3.2 x 57.2 x 34.3 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE/ YOUNG ATHLETE/ COPYRIGHT 1898, BY CHAFFEE & SELCHOW, NEW YORK"
Description:
"The Young Athlete" board game in a paper covered cardboard and wood box with a paper gameboard applied to the bottom haf of the box, four wooden playing pieces and two card board spinners with metal arrows; box cover chromolithographed with boys excercising on gymnastic equipment; box cover inscribed, "THE/ YOUNG ATHLETE/ COPYRIGHT 1898, BY CHAFFEE & SELCHOW, NEW YORK"; board chromolithographed with an oval track around an inner track with stops at different pieces of gymnastic exquipment including parallel bars, high bar and a pole vault; directions printed on the underside of the cover.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.





