Collection Highlights
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Date:
1916-1922
Object Number:
1954.164
Medium:
Painted plaster
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Grandmama's Sunday Game of Bible Questions: New Testament
Object Number:
2000.610
Date:
1887
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
box: 1 x 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. ( 2.5 x 11.4 x 15.9 cm )
Marks:
printed: on the booklet cover: "DIRECTIONS and ANSWERS / TO/ GRANDMA'S/ NEW TESTAMENT/ GAME./ McLOUGHLIN BROS., manufacturers,/ NEW YORK"
lithographed: on the box cover: box cover lithographed with a group of four children around the feet of a standing
Description:
"Grandmama's Sunday Game of Bible Questions: New Testament" card game with 100 cards and an instruction and answer booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; each numbered card is printed with a question; answers are printed in a booklet with an image of an old woman printed on the pink paper cover; booklet inscribed, "DIRECTIONS and ANSWERS / TO/ GRANDMA'S/ NEW TESTAMENT/ GAME./ McLOUGHLIN BROS., manufacturers,/ NEW YORK"; box cover lithographed with a group of four children around the feet of a standing Jesus with his arms outstretched; cover inscribed, "GRANDMAMA'S/ SUNDAY/ GAME/ OF/ BIBLE/ QUESTIONS/ McLOUGHLIN/ BROS./ N.Y./ NEW TESTAMENT./ COPYRIGHTED BY McLOUHGLIN BROS. NEW YORK 1887."
Bibliography:
Hofer, Margaret K. "The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board & Table Games." New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
