The World Educator and Game

Classification: 
Date: 
1919
Medium: 
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 1 1/8 x 14 x 6 5/8 in. ( 2.9 x 35.6 x 16.8 cm )
Description: 
"The World Educator and Game" educational game in a paper coverd cardboard box; box cover printed, "THE/ World/ Educator/ and Game/ Educational and Entertaining/ A PRIZE/ INSIDE"; box contains ten large game cards printed with numbers, letters, questions and answers and two rollers with numbers and letters on the edges.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.486
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE/ World/ Educator/ and Game/ Educational and Entertaining/ A PRIZE/ INSIDE"
Gallery Label: 
Educational games were popular in Europe as early as the 18th century. American interest in educational toys and games, exemplified by games and construction toys manufactured by W. S. Reed, developed after the middle of the 19th century.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1919
eMuseum Object ID: 
44396
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

The World's Educator

Classification: 
Date: 
1887
Medium: 
Cardboard, wood, paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 1 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 7 in. ( 4.4 x 40 x 17.8 cm )
Description: 
"The World's Educator" educational game in a flat rectagular box with top attached by brass hinges; wooden box covered in chromolithographed paper with floral and geometric decoration and a globe and a train in medallions; box cover printed, "50. DOLLARS WORTH OF/ INFORMATION./ LIGHT/ TO/ THE/ WORLD/ THE/ WORLD'S/ EDUCATOR/ ART/ AND/ SCIENCE/ MANUFACTURED/ by W. S. REED TOY CO./ LEOMINSTER, MASS/ USA"; box contains an instruction sheet, three advertising cards, card list, ten large game cards printed with numbers, letters, questions and answers and two rollers with numbers and letters on the edges.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.269
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box top: "50. DOLLARS WORTH OF/ INFORMATION./ LIGHT/ TO/ THE/ WORLD/ THE/ WORLD'S/ EDUCATOR/ ART/ AND/ SCIENCE/ MANUFACTURED/ by W. S. REED TOY CO./ LEOMINSTER, MASS/ USA" lithographed: on the interior of the box: "WIT. WISDOM & WOND
Gallery Label: 
Packaged in a beautifully lithographed wooden box, The World's Educator contains over 2,000 quiz questions and coded answers on 32 large cards. Players are posed with questions pertaining to history, current events, conundrums, and interesting facts, and then proceed to decode the location of the correct answer using the spinning cylinder on the side of the box.
Bibliography: 
Hofer, Margaret K. "The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board & Table Games." New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1887
eMuseum Object ID: 
44395
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Parcheesi

Classification: 
Date: 
1874
Medium: 
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 18 5/8 x 18 1/2 in. ( 47.3 x 47 cm )
Description: 
"Parcheesi" paper covered cardboard bi-fold game board with a cross-form path around a square in the center inscribed, "HOME/ SELCHOW & RIGHTER, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK./ PARCHEESI, PATENTED MARCH 17th 1874.", and multicolored circles in the four corners; reverse of board molded with images of two men and a horse drawn cart below, "PARCHEESI".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.236
Marks: 
lithographed: in the center of the board: "HOME/ SELCHOW & RIGHTER, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK./ PARCHEESI, PATENTED MARCH 17th 1874." molded: on the reverse of the board: "PARCHEESI"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1874
eMuseum Object ID: 
44392
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Games of Checkers, Backgammon and Toussel

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1875
Medium: 
Wood, cardboard, paper, metal
Dimensions: 
overall (closed): 1 7/8 x 7 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. ( 4.8 x 19 x 35.9 cm )
Description: 
"Games of Checkers, Backgammon and Toussel" board game with a hinged box that opens like a book with a backgammon board on the interior; box opens to a red and gold checkerboard with a path of gold squares with foliate and geometric decoration around the edges; game board slides into a paper covered cardboard sleeve with a chromolithograped label with an image of a man and woman playing checkers and the inscription, "GAMES OF/ CHECKERS/ Back-gammon/ AND/ TOUSEL/ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S, NEW YORK."; playing pieces include a paper instruction booklet, a pair of dice, and thirty-eight wooden playing pieces in a cardboard box bottom.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.661
Marks: 
lithographed: on the label: "GAMES OF/ CHECKERS/ Back-gammon/ AND/ TOUSEL/ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S, NEW YORK."
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1875
eMuseum Object ID: 
44391
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Games of Ambuscade, Constellations and Bounce

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1875
Medium: 
Wood, cardboard, paper, celluloid
Dimensions: 
overall (closed): 2 x 7 1/4 x 14 in. ( 5.1 x 18.4 x 35.6 cm )
Description: 
"Games of Ambuscade, Constellations and Bounce" board game with a paper instruction booklet, twenty celluloid playing chips and a hinged box that opens like a book with two boards on the interior and one on the exterior; on the interior one side is a green field with two large stars surrounded by stars and flowers, the opposite side has a path of brown and black squares around the edge, surrounding an inner path of green and red circles around a star and geometric form; box opens to a board with a path around men on a cliff looking down on another group of men, with four semicurcular paths leading off the main circle to star forms numbered one through six and to shield-shaped end points; game board slides into a paper covered cardboard sleeve with a chromolithograped label applied to the front with an image of a boy holding snowballs and the inscription, "GAMES OF/ Ambuscade,/ CONSTELLATIONS/ AND/ BOUNCE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK,".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.676
Marks: 
lithographed: on the label: "GAMES OF/ Ambuscade,/ CONSTELLATIONS/ AND/ BOUNCE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK,"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1875
eMuseum Object ID: 
44390
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Young Folk's Cube Puzzle: Little Bo Peep

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1875
Medium: 
Wood, paper, cardboard
Dimensions: 
Container (box): 2 × 6 1/8 × 7 3/4 in. (5.1 × 15.6 × 19.7 cm)
Description: 
"Young Folk's Cube Puzzle: Little Bo Peep" with twelve cube puzzle blocks in a paper covered cardboard and wooden box; chromolithographed image on the box cover of a caricature of a young man and woman courting with an old woman in the background looking on; box cover lithographed with the inscription, "YOUNG FOLK'S CUBE PUZZLE/ LITTLE BO PEEP"; images on the blocks include the image on the box cover of "Little Bo-Peep and the Old Woman's Shy Son", "Little Bo-Peep", "Little Bo-Peep Meets a Raven", "Little Bo-Peep Dreaming", "Bo-Peep restoring the Form of the Princess" and "Elves with Bo-Peep's Sheep".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.224
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "YOUNG FOLK'S CUBE PUZZLE/ LITTLE BO PEEP"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1875
eMuseum Object ID: 
44363
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Wonder blocks

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1885
Medium: 
Wood, paper, cardboard
Dimensions: 
Overall: 1 1/8 x 7 7/8 x 8 in. ( 2.9 x 20 x 20.3 cm )
Description: 
"Wonder Blocks and Steam Cars" picture blocks with nine paper covered wooden blocks in a paper covered cardboard box; each block lithographed with three sequential letters of the alphabet and image that begin with that letter on the obverse, and train parts on the reverse; sides chromolithographed with letters of the alphabet on two sides; box cover chromolithographed with the "A B C" block and an old woman holding eggs with a rooster at her feet; box cover inscribed, "WONDER/ BLOCKS/ J.H.S. N.Y./ AND/ STEAM CARS".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.272
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "WONDER/ BLOCKS/ J.H.S. N.Y./ AND/ STEAM CARS"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1885
eMuseum Object ID: 
44361
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Picture blocks

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1900
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
Container (box): 2 × 10 1/4 × 8 7/8 in. (5.1 × 26 × 22.5 cm)
Description: 
Thirty cube puzzle blocks in a paper covered wooden box; chromolithographed image on the box top of two girls and a dog in a garden; images on the blocks include the image on the box cover, three girls playing with a rabbit, five children having a tea party, three girls watching a boy set off a toy cannon with a beach in the background, three children holding hands one with a picnic basket and three children with two dogs; three chromolithographed images on cardboard of three of the puzzles.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.230
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1900
eMuseum Object ID: 
44360
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

A B C Blocks

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1883
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
Container (box): 1 1/2 × 8 7/8 × 10 in. (3.8 × 22.5 × 25.4 cm)
Description: 
"A B C Blocks" alphabet blocks with twenty paper covered wooden blocks in a wood box with a sliding lid with an applied paper label; label chromolithographed with an image of a clown showing a little girl a box of "ABC BLOCKS" in a parlor; label inscibed, "ABC/ J.H.S./ NEW YORK/ No. 2/ ABC/ BLOCKS/ J. H. SINGER"; one side of each block chromolithographed with a letter and a corresponding action or object such as "AIM" for "A", reverse of the blocks are six puzzles representing Uncle Sam, Santa Claus, a soldier, a man plting clarinet, a man playing mandolin and a fat man, sides of blocks have soldiers and bricks.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.244
Marks: 
lithographed: on the label: "ABC/ J.H.S./ NEW YORK/ No. 2/ ABC/ BLOCKS/ J. H. SINGER"
Bibliography: 
Hofer, Margaret K. "The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board & Table Games." New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1883
eMuseum Object ID: 
44359
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Alphabet of Country Scenes

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1890
Medium: 
Wood, paper, cardboard
Dimensions: 
box: 4 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. ( 11.1 x 26 x 33.7 cm )
Description: 
Six paper covered wooden alphabet blocks in a paper covered wood and cardboard box; box cover chromolithographed with three images, sheep, cows and a boy feeding a calf; box cover inscribed, "ALPHABET/ OF/ COUNTRY/ SCENES/ NEW YORK/ McLOUGHLIN BRO's"; each block has four country vignettes around the sides representing a letter of the alphabet, the ends have verses describing each scene.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.255
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "ALPHABET/ OF/ COUNTRY/ SCENES/ NEW YORK/ McLOUGHLIN BRO's"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1890
eMuseum Object ID: 
44358
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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