Collection Highlights
Southern Chivalry - Argument versus Club's
Date:
1856
Object Number:
PR.010.1856.4
Medium:
Lithograph
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An Amusing Game of Horse Show
Object Number:
2000.375
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood, metal
Dimensions:
Open (board): 18 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (47 × 23.5 cm)
Container (box): 1 3/4 × 19 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (4.4 × 48.9 × 26 cm)
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "AN AMUSING GAME/ THE/ HORSE/ SHOW/ MANUFACTURED/ BY/ J. H. SINGER,/ NEW YORK, U.S.A."
Description:
"An Amusing Game. The Horse Show" with a bi-fold paper covered cardboard gameboard, eight wooden playing pieces, a cardboard spinner with a metal arrow and eight square cardboard "medals" in a paper covered cardboard box; board chromolithographed with a checkerboard which is yellow and red in the center and blue and peach around the sides, corners with images of four horses; box cover chromolithographed with an image of a woman riding a bucking horse; box cover inscribed, "AN AMUSING GAME/ THE/ HORSE/ SHOW/ MANUFACTURED/ BY/ J. H. SINGER,/ NEW YORK, U.S.A."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
