Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire
Date:
1835-1836
Object Number:
1858.3
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Jack Straws
Object Number:
2000.695
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 5 x 4 in. ( 2.5 x 12.7 x 10.2 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "JACK/ STRAWS/J. H. SINGER, NEW YORK."
Description:
"Jack Straws" table game with 81 multi-colored cylindrical wooden pick-up-sticks and a metal hook with a turned wooden handle in a paper covered cardboard box; box chromolithographed with an image of a man in a field with a rabbit; box cover inscribed, "JACK/ STRAWS/J. H. SINGER, NEW YORK."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
