Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
Date:
ca. 1834
Object Number:
1858.2
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Choice Thoughts from Longfellow
Object Number:
2000.521
Date:
1890
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. ( 2.5 x 12.1 x 9.5 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "CHOICE THOUGHTS/ FROM/ LONGFELLOW"
Description:
"Choice Thoughts from Longfellow" card game with a direction booklet, a sheet with a list of poems and 95 cards with quotations from Longfellow's poems on each in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover chromolithographed with a yellow house; box cover inscribed, "CHOICE THOUGHTS/ FROM/ LONGFELLOW".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
