Tom Thumb Nesting Block
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Wood, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. ( 16.5 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm )
Description:
Wooden nesting alphabet block (hollow) covered in paper; top printed with sequence of letters, "RST/ UVW/ XYZ"; sides with chromolithographed illustrations from the story of Tom Thumb; one side lithographed with the inscription, "TOM THUMB nest/ BLOCKS".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.223
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
41735
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Home Baseball Game
Classification:
Date:
1900
Medium:
Cardboard, wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 x 14 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. ( 38.1 x 36.2 x 2.9 cm )
Description:
Board game with box, gameboard, spinner and eighteen wooden playing pieces; on cover of cardboard box, lithographed illustration of two boys playing baseball, one as the batter and the other as the catcher, batter dressed in a vertically striped shirt and cap, and the catcher all in blue; board represents a baseball diamond with each position indicated with an orange or white circle; crossed baseball bats, gloves and balls in opposite corners; circular cardboard spinner with metal arrow marked with numbers and directions; nine circular red playing pieces and nine circular natural playing pieces.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.717
Marks:
lithographed: on the cover: "HOME/ BASEBALL/ GAME/ COPYRIGHT 1900 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK"
Gallery Label:
The sport of baseball had already achieved popularity in New York by the 1840s. Alexander Cartwright formalized the rules of the game in New York City in 1846. By the Civil War, baseball clubs pitted Broooklyn against Manhattan at well-attended games.
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:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
41125
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
American Eagle Educational Series: Geography
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
box: 1 1/8 x 6 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. ( 2.9 x 17.1 x 13.7 cm )
Description:
Card game "American Eagle Educational Series: Geography" with 48 playing cards in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover lithographed with an image of an American bald eagle with a laurel branch in its talon; box cover inscribed, "American Eagle/ EDUCATIONAL SERIES/ GEOGRAPHY/ PARKER BROTHERS, INC. SALEM, MASS., U.S.A.".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.616
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "American Eagle/ EDUCATIONAL SERIES/ GEOGRAPHY/ PARKER BROTHERS, INC. SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
41123
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
American Cities
Classification:
Date:
1893
Medium:
Cardboard
Dimensions:
card: 3 7/8 x 2 3/4 in. (9.8 x 7 cm)
Box: 9 x 7 x 1 1/2 in. ( 22.9 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Card game with box, instruction booklet and 52 playing cards; on cover of cardboard box, lithographed illustration of Salem, Massachusetts, on hill over a habor with a steamship and sailing vessels, inset in a circle is a city street with a train terminal; cover inscribed, "AMERICAN/ Cities/ A GAME/ PUBLISHED BY/ PARLER BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS, U.S. A./ Copyrighted/ 1893;" 52 playing cards, each depicting an American city with its name, state, population, a fact about it and the number of points the card is worth.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.768
Marks:
lithographed: on the cover: "AMERICAN/ Cities/ A GAME/ PUBLISHED BY/ PARLER BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS, U.S. A./ Copyrighted/ 1893"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1893
eMuseum Object ID:
41122
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Little Goldenlocks & the Three Bears: A Pleasing Game
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1890
Medium:
Cardboard, wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. ( 49.5 x 26.7 x 3.2 cm )
Description:
Board game with box, gameboard, and spinner and four wooden playing pieces; on cover of cardboard box, lithographed illustration of three bears in a tree and a portrait bust of Goldenlocks in a blue shirt with red bow at the collar; on board, spaces arranged in a serpentine pattern, four marked with "STOP," with central area the woods and surrounding illustrations of scenes from the tale of Little Red Riding Hood; square cardboard spinner with metal arrow. Game board not original to cover - belongs to a Red Riding Hood game.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.716
Marks:
lithographed: on the cover: "LITTLE GOLDENLOCKS/ & THE/ THREE/ BEARS/ A PLEASING GAME/ 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:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
41120
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Learn to Write Scroll Game
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Wood, glass, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 8 x 9 3/4 in. ( 3.2 x 20.3 x 24.8 cm )
Description:
Wooden box with glass top revealing a series of printed depictions of animals, fruit and the alphabet; the figures are rendered on a long strip of paper which is housed on two spools and rotated by cranks; the sides of the box are covered in blue paper; the object of the slate is to trace the images and the words.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.264
Marks:
printed: at the beginning of the scroll and on the underside: "PARENTS/ Encourage Your Children/ TO/ LEARN to WRITE./ SHEPHERD'S DRAWING AND WRITING/ SLATES, with Rotating Copies, is the best method/ to adopt. The copy is placed at thelower half/ of the S
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
40710
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Game of Watermelon Patch
Classification:
Date:
1896
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood, metal
Dimensions:
box: 1 x 19 5/8 x 10 1/8 in. ( 2.5 x 49.8 x 25.7 cm )
Description:
"The Game of Watermelon Patch" in a paper covered wood and cardboard box; box cover chromolithographed with a caricature of three black men, one playing an accordion and the others dancing, by the light of a lantern in a watermelon patch; interior of the box decorated with a watermelon patch with vines running across, with 22 slits cut out in rows; 23 cardboard watermelons, with holes cut through to be caught by, and with numbers printed on one side; 2 wooden poles with string threaded through holes at end, with metal hooks at end of line; instructions printed on inside of cover.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.300
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME OF THE/ WATER/ MELON/ PATCH/ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S/ NEW YORK"
Gallery Label:
A variation of Fish Pond in which players capture watermelons with a pole, Watermelon Patch reinforced derogatory stereotypes with images of blacks stealing and eating melons.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1896
eMuseum Object ID:
40087
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The New Game of Migration
Classification:
Date:
1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood
Dimensions:
Open (board): 16 1/4 × 16 7/8 in. (41.3 × 42.9 cm)
Container (box): 1 1/4 × 16 1/2 × 8 7/8 in. (3.2 × 41.9 × 22.5
Description:
"The New Game of Migration" board game with 64 wooden playing pieces, a board and an instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover lithographed with a band of Native Americans traveling across an open plain, some riding horses, others carrying children, horses pulling carts and dogs chasing them; box cover inscribed, "NEW GAME OF MIGRATION/ COPYRIGHTED 1890/ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S NEW-YORK."; board has an outer circle in a checker board pattern and four triangles within, in each corner are cartoon figures, two men and two women, looking in at the board; reverse of the board printed, "Migration." in script.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.769
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "NEW GAME OF MIGRATION/ COPYRIGHTED 1890/ McLOUGHLIN BRO'S NEW-YORK."
printed: on the reverse of the board: "Migration." in script
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
40054
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The New Pretty Village Church Set
Classification:
Date:
1897
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, tin
Dimensions:
box: 1 x 12 x 8 1/2 in. ( 2.5 x 30.5 x 21.6 cm )
Description:
Miniature cardboard village in a box with a foldout town map, four complete buildings including the church, the greenhouse and two homes, ten tin stands and ten paper figures, trees, fences and accessories; box cover lithographed with an image of a boy and girl playing with a village set on a large table while a mother holding an infant looks on; box inscribed, "THE NEW/ PRETTY VILLAGE/ CHURCH SET/ COPYRIGHT/ 1897 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.232
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE NEW/ PRETTY VILLAGE/ CHURCH SET/ COPYRIGHT/ 1897 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1897
eMuseum Object ID:
40053
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Board Game
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
overall (open): 17 x 17 in. ( 43.2 x 43.2 cm )
Description:
Paper covered carboard bi-fold game board with a square spiral path of colored rectangles passing people and places such as "The Beggar", "The Bridge", "The Imp" and "The Queen" all while trying to reach "The Pool".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Object Number:
2000.235
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
39780
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.






















