Collection Highlights
Plan of the City of New York
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.NS3.M36.1.3ab
Medium:
Black ink, with pencil additions, on paper backed with paper backed with cloth
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Anagrams: A Prize game
Object Number:
2000.667
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 6 1/8 x 8 3/4 in. ( 3.2 x 15.6 x 22.2 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: "ANAGRAMS/ A PRIZE GAME/ DOUBLE/ EAGLE/ A GAME OF LETTERS/ A GAME OF LETTERS/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
Description:
"Anagrams: A Prize game" table game with 260 cardboard tiles printed with a letter and a instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box has a chromolithographed image of a girl and a boy dressed as indians with feather headdresses playing with dog; box inscribed, "ANAGRAMS/ A PRIZE GAME/ DOUBLE/ EAGLE/ A GAME OF LETTERS/ A GAME OF LETTERS/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
