Collection Highlights
Siamese Twins
Date:
1836
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1836.55
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Old Fashioned Jack Straws
Object Number:
2000.688
Date:
1888
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 9 x 6 in. ( 2.5 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "OLD FASHIONED/ JACK/ STRAWS/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., NEW YORK."
Description:
"Old Fashioned Jack Straws" table game with 87 wooden pick-up-sticks in the shape of farm tools, 3 wooden balls and a metal hook with a wooden handle in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover chromolithographed with three children playing jack straws; box cover lithographed, "OLD FASHIONED/ JACK/ STRAWS/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., NEW YORK."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
