Collection Highlights
Invitation to Erie Canal Celebration
Date:
1825
Object Number:
PR.221.12
Medium:
Engraving
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Game of the Diamond Heart
Object Number:
2000.327
Date:
1902
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, metal
Dimensions:
Box (top): 15 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (39.4 x 19.7 cm)
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME of/ The DIAMOND/ HEART/ PEARL SERIES/ COPYRIGHT 1902/ by McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ McLoughlin Brothers, New York".
Description:
"Game of the Diamond Heart" board game with a spinner and a chromolithographed paper board applied inside the bottom half of the paper covered cardboard box; board with a Greek cross in the center and two archs, one of hearts and one of diamonds numbered 1 through 10; box cover chromolithographed with an image of a queen holding a baby she has taken out of a cradle with a handmaiden in the background; box cover inscribed, "GAME of/ The DIAMOND/ HEART/ PEARL SERIES/ COPYRIGHT 1902/ by McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ McLoughlin Brothers, New York".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
