Collection Highlights
Shrewsbury River, New Jersey
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-229
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Telegraph Messenger
Object Number:
2000.324
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7/8 x 7 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. ( 2.2 x 19 x 18.7 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "TELEGRAPH/ MESSENGER/ PLAY CUCKOO FOR FUN./ MANUFACTURED BY/ J. H. SINGER/ U.S.A."
Description:
"Telegraph Messenger" board game with a chromolithographed square cardboard gameboard in a paper covered cardboard box; board with multicolored numberd grid with illustrations in the upper corners and at the bottom center; on box cover of boy in blue uniform running down a street with a crowd and a carriage in the background; box cover lithographed with the inscription, "TELEGRAPH/ MESSENGER/ PLAY CUCKOO FOR FUN./ MANUFACTURED BY/ J. H. SINGER/ U.S.A.".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
