Collection Highlights
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
Date:
1836-37
Object Number:
1952.410
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
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Jack Banning's Putt-Pins
Object Number:
2006.8a-d
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Medium:
Cardboard, wood, felt
Dimensions:
box: 1 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. ( 3.8 x 23.5 x 23.5 cm )
Description:
Game consisting of 10 wooden bowling pins in cardboard cutout; felt putting mat labeled with places for pins; scorecard pad:
(a.1) box top
(a.2) box bottom
(a.3) cardboard insert with directions
(b.1-10) bowling pins
(c) felt pad for pins placement
(d) score pad
Gallery Label:
Jack Banning's Putt-Pins, "the popular new indoor Golf-Bowling game," combines two popular sports of the 1950s. Players set up the small wooden bowling pins on a felt putting mat using the pin setting rack and knock down the pins using their own putter and golf ball. A scorekeeping pad with rules is provided with the game.
Credit Line:
Gift of Leslie & Judith Schreyer and Gabrielle Shrem
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
