Collection Highlights
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Date:
Object Number:
LIB.QH41.C26.1974
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
White Squadron
Object Number:
2000.503
Date:
1896
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Marks:
printed: on the box cover: "EDUCATIONAL GAMES/ No 1108/ WHITE/ SQUADRON/ COPYRIGHTED 1896, BY/ THE FIRESIDE GAME CO./ THE CINCINNATI GAME CO./ SUCCESSORS/ CINCINNATI, U.S.A."
Description:
"White Squadron" card game with 52 playing cards with images of a battleship chromolithographed on the backs, faces depict U.S. battleships and their statistics, and two advertising cards in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover printed, "EDUCATIONAL GAMES/ No 1108/ WHITE/ SQUADRON/ COPYRIGHTED 1896, BY/ THE FIRESIDE GAME CO./ THE CINCINNATI GAME CO./ SUCCESSORS/ CINCINNATI, U.S.A."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
