Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1785-1789
Object Number:
1916.7
Medium:
Mahogany; pine, poplar
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Game of Old Maid
Object Number:
2000.626
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
box: 7/8 x 5 3/8 x 4 1/4 in. ( 2.2 x 13.7 x 10.8 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE/ GAME of/ OLD MAID/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., New York."
Description:
The Game of Old Maid" card game with 35 printed paper playing cards and an instruction card; cards printed in pairs with caricatures such as "Dandy Dick" and "Goose Jockey" printed on each and a single old maid; box cover chromolithographed with an image of an old maid seated having tea with a parrot behind her; box inscribed, "THE/ GAME of/ OLD MAID/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., New York."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
