Little Workers Picture Cubes

Classification: 
Date: 
1901
Medium: 
Cardboard, wood, paper
Dimensions: 
Container (box): 3 × 8 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (7.6 × 21.6 × 28.3 cm)
Description: 
"Little Workers Picture Cubes" a set of twelve picture puzzle blocks with images of children playing at adult jobs making up six puzzles on each side of the cube blocks and six lithographed images of the finished puzzles in a paper covered cardboard and wooden box; puzzles include "The Jeweler" with two girls examining the contents of a jewelry box; "The Pastry Cooks" with two girls, one rolling dough the other looking on; "The Optician" with a boy and girl trying on oversized glases; "The Shoemaker" with a boy making a pair of doll shoes for a girl and boy; "The Barber" with a boy cutting the hair of a smaller boy while a third looks on; and "Building a Doll House" with a boy making a doll house as a girl looks on; box cover lithographed with the above "Doll house" image and inscribed, "LITTLE/ WORKERS/ PICTURE/ CUBES/ COPYRIGHT/ 1901/ by McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK.".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.238
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "LITTLE/ WORKERS/ PICTURE/ CUBES/ COPYRIGHT/ 1901/ by McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1901
eMuseum Object ID: 
43242
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

The Brownie Blocks

Classification: 
Date: 
1891
Medium: 
Wood, carboard, paper
Dimensions: 
Each (block): 2 5/8 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (6.7 x 6.4 x 6.4 cm)
Description: 
Set of twenty picture puzzle blocks with Palmer Cox's "Brownies" or elves on each of the six puzzles; puzzles include "Snowballing", Brownies having a snowball fight in a park, "Skating" with brownies skating on a pond with one who has fallen through the ice and a building in the background flying a Japanese flag, "Hauling the Yule Log" with brownies hauling trees on sleds, "The Dance" with brownies dancing in pairs and groups to a brownie band, "Blindman's Bluff" with brownies blindfolding and chasing each other and "The Christmas Dinner" with two long tables of brownies eating, serving and carving a turkey; box cover lithographed with sixteen brownies playing on the inscribed title, "THE/ BROWNIE/ BLOCKS/ Manufactured/ by McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ COPYRIGHTED/ 1891/ by/ PALMER COX.".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.252
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE/ BROWNIE/ BLOCKS/ Manufactured/ by McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ COPYRIGHTED/ 1891/ by/ PALMER COX."
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1891
eMuseum Object ID: 
43240
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Picture puzzle

Classification: 
Date: 
1898
Medium: 
Cardboard, wood, paper
Dimensions: 
Container (box): 1 3/4 × 15 1/4 × 10 3/4 in. (4.4 × 38.7 × 27.3 cm)
Description: 
Two picture puzzles in a paper covered cardboard, and wood box depicting battles from the Spanish-American War; complete 50 piece puzzle depicting the battle of Manila with the American battleship "Olympia" sinking the Spanish ship "Reina Maria Cristina" with other ships in the background; base of this puzzle inscribed, "THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY/ COPYRIGHT 1898 BY F. D. MAHER/ OLYMPIA. (FOUGHT BY ADMIRAL DEWEY, MAY 1ST 1890) REINA MARIA CRISTINA"; second 45 piece puzzle (missing five pieces) of the American Asiatic Squadron with six ships at sail on the ocean; base of the second puzzle inscribed, "ASIATIC SQUADRON/ BALTIMORE. CONCORD. OLYMPIA. PETREL. BOSTON. RALEIGH. Mc CULLOCH. TRANSPORTS/ COPYRIGHT 1898 BY F. D. MAHER/ ADMIRAL DEWEY"; box cover has the first puzzles image on it and the inscription, "THE/ BATTLE OF MANILA/ PICTURE PUZZLE./ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ COPYRIGHT 1898 BY F. D. MAHER".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.472
Marks: 
lithographed: on one puzzle: "THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY/ COPYRIGHT 1898 BY F. D. MAHER/ OLYMPIA. (FOUGHT BY ADMIRAL DEWEY, MAY 1ST 1890) REINA MARIA CRISTINA" lithographed: on the other puzzle: "ASIATIC SQUADRON/ BALTIMORE. CONCORD. OLYMPIA. PETREL. BOST
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1898
eMuseum Object ID: 
43202
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Game of Race Around the World

Classification: 
Date: 
1898
Medium: 
Cardboard, wood, paper
Dimensions: 
box: 1 1/2 x 32 x 15 in. ( 3.8 x 81.3 x 38.1 cm )
Description: 
"Game of Race Around the World" board game in box; box cover illustrated with an image of a steamship across the top, a train in the lower right corner, an engineer in the upper right corner and a medallion at the left, with a train crossing a bridge and boats in the water below as a woman and two children look on and wave; box cover inscribed, "GAME OF/ RACE/ AROUND THE/ WORLD/ COPYRIGHT 1898 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."; board is a map of the world with two paths across the center.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.399
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME OF/ RACE/ AROUND THE/ WORLD/ COPYRIGHT 1898 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
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: 
1898
eMuseum Object ID: 
43172
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Game of District Messenger Boy or Merit Rewarded

Classification: 
Date: 
1886
Medium: 
Cardboard, wood, lead
Dimensions: 
Open (board): 16 1/4 × 16 7/8 in. (41.3 × 42.9 cm) Container (box): 1 3/4 × 9 1/2 × 17 1/4 in. (4.4 × 24.1 × 43.8
Description: 
"Game of District Messenger Boy or Merit Rewarded" board game consisting of board, four lead game pieces (running messenger boys on round bases), in wooden box with cover illustration of boy in blue uniform and cap running with piece of paper in right hand in front of series of buildings and an elevated railroad; box cover inscribed, "GAME OF THE/ DISTRICT/ MESSENGER/ BOY/ OR/ MERIT/ Rewarded/ COPYRIGHT 1886 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS NEW-YORK"; board is in the form of a maze, with almost every box marked with description or instruction, such as "Advance to BOX INSPECTOR," with illustration at each corner and spinner at lower right corner.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.335
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME OF THE/ DISTRICT/ MESSENGER/ BOY/ OR/ MERIT/ Rewarded/ COPYRIGHT 1886 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS NEW-YORK"
Gallery Label: 
One of many games produced in the 1880s with a "rags to riches" theme, The District Messenger Boy reflects the contemporary belief that the American capitalist system would reward merit and enterprise regardless of one's background, privileged or humble. Players start the game as messenger boys and attempt to work their way up through the ranks to become president of the firm.
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: 
1886
eMuseum Object ID: 
43169
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Hill's Alphabet Blocks

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1875
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
box: 1 x 6 1/8 x 6 in. ( 2.5 x 15.6 x 15.2 cm )
Description: 
Set of eighteen square blocks painted red or white with numbers or letters painted on two sides; wooden box with an applied label with four children playing with blocks in a nursery with a mother looking on; label inscribed, "HILL'S/ ALPHABET BLOCKS/ S. L. HILL WILLIAMSBURGH NY".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.284
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box label: "HILL'S/ ALPHABET BLOCKS/ S. L. HILL WILLIAMSBURGH NY".
Gallery Label: 
First developed in 17th-century England, alphabet blocks were produced in New York by 1820. The first large-scale production of blocks was initiated in Williamsburg, New York (Brooklyn) by S. L. Hill, who patented his paper-on-wood spelling blocks in 1858.
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: 
1875
eMuseum Object ID: 
43033
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Game of Bicycle Race

Classification: 
Date: 
1895
Medium: 
Carboard, paper, wood, lead
Dimensions: 
Overall: 1 1/8 x 21 7/8 x 12 7/8 in. ( 2.9 x 55.6 x 32.7 cm )
Description: 
"The Game of Bicycle Race" board game with two cardboard spinners, four colored lead bicycle riding figures and a board set into the bottom of the paper covered wooden box; board is a map of the southern shore and center of Long Island with a gold path between the towns and the "Bicycle Club"; lithographed box cover has an image of personified cats, dogs and rabbits riding bicycles with a fallen pug in the foreground; board inscribed, "GAME OF/ BICYCLE/ RACE/ COPYRIGHTED 1895 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., NEW YORK."; instructions printed on the underside of the cover.
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.329
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME oF/ BICYCLE/ RACE/ COPYRIGHTED 1895 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., NEW YORK."
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: 
1895
eMuseum Object ID: 
43021
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Improved Game of Tiddledy Winks

Classification: 
Date: 
1890
Medium: 
Cardboard, felt, wood, ivory
Dimensions: 
box: 1 5/8 x 8 x 4 1/2 in. ( 4.1 x 20.3 x 11.4 cm )
Description: 
"Improved Game of Tiddledy Winks" table game with 27 ivory playing pieces, a wooden cup and three rectangular felt pads in a paper covered cardboard box; box top chromolithographed with an image of a frog smoking a pipe and holding a fishing rod; box cover inscribed, "IMPROVED GAME/ TIDDLEDY/ WINKS/ PATENT NOV. 18 1890./ McLoughlin Bro's New-York".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.570
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box cover: "IMPROVED GAME/ TIDDLEDY/ WINKS/ PATENT NOV. 18 1890./ McLoughlin Bro's New-York"
Gallery Label: 
Tiddledy Winks, first patented in England in 1889 and marketed to an adult audience, captivated Americans during the 1890s. The game's general concept is flicking a game piece (wink) with another instrument (tiddledy or squidger) to make the wink fly into the air. The modern spelling, tiddlywinks, came into use during the 1950s.
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: 
1890
eMuseum Object ID: 
42996
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

The Bugle Horn or Robin Hood and His Merry Men Game

Classification: 
Date: 
1871
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
box: 1 1/4 x 4 1/2 x 6 in. ( 3.2 x 11.4 x 15.2 cm )
Description: 
"The Bugle Horn or Robin Hood and his Merry Men" card game with 35 printed and hand-colored playing cards, an instruction card and a folded paper game board in a wooden box; cards have images of Robin Hood and his Men, arrows, horns and other accesories; board printed with images of Maid Marian, Little John, Allen A Dale, friar Tuck and Robin Hood; box cover with an applied chromolithographed label with an image of Robin Hood blowing a bugle; label inscribed, "THE BUGLE HORN/ OR/ ROBIN HOOD/ AND HIS/ MERRY MEN/ A/ MIRTHFUL/ GAME/ McLOUGHLIN BROS/ MANUFACTURERS, NEW YORK.".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.732
Marks: 
lithographed: on the box label: "THE BUGLE HORN/ OR/ ROBIN HOOD/ AND HIS/ MERRY MEN/ A/ MIRTHFUL/ GAME/ McLOUGHLIN BROS/ MANUFACTURERS, NEW YORK."
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1871
eMuseum Object ID: 
42985
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Game of Dr. Fusby

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1880
Medium: 
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions: 
box: 1 x 4 x 3 in. ( 2.5 x 10.2 x 7.6 cm ) each card: 3 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. ( 8.9 x 6.7 cm )
Description: 
"The Game of Dr. Fusby" card game with 48 chromolithographed playing cards and an instruction sheet in a paper covered cardboard box; twelve sets of four cards each representing a family, Fusby, Sly, Sugar, Rastus, Slim, Cod, Plates, Rosebud, Ox, Mourning, Snap and Crabb; box cover stamped with the inscription, "GAME OF/ DR. FUSBY/ McLOUHGLIN BROS. NEW YORK".
Credit Line: 
The Liman Collection
Object Number: 
2000.560
Marks: 
stamped: on the box cover: "GAME OF/ DR. FUSBY/ McLOUHGLIN BROS. NEW YORK"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1880
eMuseum Object ID: 
42978
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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