New York City Monopoly

Date: 
1994
Medium: 
Paper, plastic, metal
Dimensions: 
20 x 10 x 1 3/8 in.
Description: 
A cardboard Monopoly board game complete in box. The New York City edition, with New York streets and landmarks rather than the traditional Atlantic city setting of Monopoly. Includes "Tiffany & Co.", and "Trump Tower" where Boardwalk and Park Place normally are; and Laguardia and Kennedy airports with Grand Central and Penn Stations in place of the railroads.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2110
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1994
eMuseum Object ID: 
49493
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Game of Yacht Race

Date: 
1900-1930
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
32 x 13 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A cardboard game board printed on the back in gold with an ornate border around "The Game of Yacht Race". The board is printed with a scene of a bay with land at the edges and a game track marked with with numbers and hazards. A spinner in the center controls the compass direction the players move.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2109
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
49492
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Game board

Date: 
1900-1930
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
25 x 13 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A cardboard game board labeled "Jerome Park Steeplechase/ New Game". The board has a numbered, sectioned oval track printed on it in black and beige with horserace scenes at the bottom, corners and throughout the track. The rules and instructions for play are printed in the center of the game board.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2108
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
49491
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Postcard set

Date: 
1939
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
6 x 4 x 1/4 in.
Description: 
A red folding packet that contains a set of souvenir postcards from the Soviet Pavillion of the 1939 World's Fair. The front reads in gold "The Pavilion [sic] Of The USSR/ New York World's Fair 1939/ 10 Souvenir Post Cards/ Intourist, Inc." Inside are 10 postcards: A photographic portrait of Josef Stalin, and on eof Vladimir Lenin, idealized photos of "Vacationers on the Shore of the Black Sea", the "Fountains at Peterof near Leningrad", the architect's "Model of the Pavilion of the U.S.S.R.", "Red Square in Moscow", folk dancers in traditional garb titled "Caucasian Dance Festival at Piatigorsk", "Svedlov or Theatre Square in Moscow", a sail boat by the "Kimky River Station on the Moscow- Volga", and lastly from the Intourist bureau, a "Tourist Travel Map of the Soviet Union" showing distances and major cities.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1941
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1939
eMuseum Object ID: 
49489
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Handkerchief

Date: 
1893
Medium: 
Cloth
Dimensions: 
18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.
Description: 
A white silk handkerchief from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. In one corner is a scene printed in reddish brown of Columbus and his crew standing on a shore holding banners and the words "Souvenir/ World's Fair/ Chicago/ 1492-1892/ Landing of Columbus".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1940
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1893
eMuseum Object ID: 
49488
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Ribbon

Date: 
1940-1960
Medium: 
Cloth
Dimensions: 
7 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.
Description: 
A blue woven award ribbon from the New York State Fair. It reads, in faded gold, "Excellent/ Horse Show/ Herdsman/ Youth Dept./ New York/ State Fair/ Syracuse".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1939
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1960
eMuseum Object ID: 
49487
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Ribbon/ bookmark

Date: 
1892
Medium: 
Silk, paper
Dimensions: 
11 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.
Description: 
A silk woven souvenir ribbon bookmarker from the 1893 Columbian Celebration still mounted on its original paper card. The multicolored ribbon has a central image of Columbus and his crew standing on a shore carrying banners. It reads in black, red, blue and gold "1492-1892/ 400th Anniversary/ In Commemoration/ Of The Discovery of/ America 1492". Below the image, an American Flag and the words "Landing Of Columbus/ Oct. 12th 1492/ In God We Trust ". The card reads "Souvenir/ Columbian Celebration/ New York, October 8th to 13th, 1892/ Woven in Pure Silk".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1938
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1892
eMuseum Object ID: 
49486
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Ribbon/ bookmark

Date: 
1876
Medium: 
Silk, paper
Dimensions: 
12 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.
Description: 
A silk woven souvenir ribbon bookmarker from the 1876 Centennial celebration still mounted on its original paper card. The multicolored ribbon has a central image of George Washington below the words "Centennial/ 1776-1876/ U.S.A./ The Father Of Our Country". Below Washington are two crossed flags, an image of the Centennial pavillion, an eagle and shield and a poem that reads "George Washington/ The first in peace,/ The first in war,/ The first in the/ Hearts of his/ Countrymen". The card reads "Thomas Stevens/ Coventry and London/ Inventor and Manufacturer of the / Pure Silk Woven Bookmarkers".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1937
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1876
eMuseum Object ID: 
49485
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Plaque

Date: 
1933
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
8 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 1/4 in.
Description: 
This silver colored metal plaque is shaped like a horseshoe and has an embossed four-leaf clover highlighted with green paint and bordered in red in the center. It is embossed around the rim "A Century of Progress/ The Chicago World's Fair of 1933". It is embossed in the center "1833-1933 Good Luck".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1936
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1933
eMuseum Object ID: 
49484
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Matchbook

Date: 
1939
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
2 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 1/4 in.
Description: 
White matchbook printed on front with the 1939 World's Fair Perisphere and Trylon pavillions in blue and orange with "New York 1939 World's Fair"; reverse printed in orange, blue and white with "Use The Lincoln Tunnel /Plan Now to See / The New York World's Fair 1939"; inside, a list of "Free Travel Aids and Sports Schedules" from the Port Authority. Matches removed.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1935
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1939
eMuseum Object ID: 
49483
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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