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1997
2002.13.2
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'Round the World Joe
ca. 1890
2000.567
A B C Blocks
ca. 1883
2000.244
A New Dissected Map of the United States
ca. 1887
2000.547
A Trip to Paris: A New and Laughable Game
ca. 1870
2000.755
A. D. T. Messenger Boy
ca. 1910
2000.338
ABC Cubes
ca. 1885
2000.424
Advance and Retreat: A Game of Skill
1900
2000.346
Alphabetic Object Teacher
ca. 1875
2000.267
American Wizard Instructor
ca. 1870
2000.751
An Account of Peter Coddle's Visit to New York
ca. 1890
2000.747
An Amusing Game of Horse Show
ca. 1890
2000.375
Anagrams and Other Letter Games
ca. 1910
2000.659
Anagrams Double Eagle: A Prize Game
ca. 1890
2000.668
Anagrams: A Prize game
ca. 1900
2000.667
Anagrams: The New Popular Spelling Game
ca. 1900
2000.458
Around the World with Nellie Bly
ca. 1910
2000.447
Authors
ca. 1890
2000.520
Authors
ca. 1890
2000.533
Autograph Authors
1886
2000.528
Blown Up Steamer and Fire Engine Puzzle
ca. 1885
2000.392
British Soldiers Past and Present
ca. 1894
2000.297
Brooklyn Bridge Block Ball Puzzle
1883-1900
2000.730ab
Bulls and Bears: The Great Wall Street Game
1883
2000.728
Card game
ca. 1890
2000.525
Card game
2000.615
Card game
ca. 1890
2000.616
Card game
ca. 1890
2000.735
Card game
1900
2000.603
Card game
ca. 1890
2000.532
Card Game
1901
2000.597
Card game
1901
2000.476
Card game
1884
2000.575
Card game
1887
2000.629
Card game
1892
2000.631
Card game
1886
2000.537
Card game
1889
2000.536
Card game
1887
2000.607
Card game
1896
2000.503
Cards of Fortune
ca. 1890
2000.502
Cash: Honesty is the Best Policy
ca. 1890
2000.758
Cats on the Wall
1885-1900
2000.455
Checker and backgammon board
ca. 1875
2000.512
Checker board
ca. 1875
2000.511
Chess India
ca. 1890
2000.355
Chiromagica
ca. 1870
2000.488
Chiromagica or the Hand of Fate
1901
2000.489
Chivalry: The Greatest Modern Board Game of Skill
1880-1890
2000.234
Chopped Up Niggers: Puzzles to Put Together
ca. 1875
2000.389
Clemen's Silent Teacher: Dissected Map of the U.S., State of Illinois
ca. 1900
2000.265
CombinationTiddledy Winks
ca. 1890
2000.581
Commerce
ca. 1900
2000.760
Crandall's Masquerade Blocks
ca. 1875
2000.282
Criss Cross Spelling Slips: Dog & Goose
ca. 1890
2000.430
Dissected Map of the United States
1887
2000.754
Dissected Outline Map of the United States of America
ca. 1900
2000.551
Dominoes
ca. 1875
2000.505
Drawing Stencils for our Little Artist
ca. 1890
2000.403
Dresses Worn by the "First Ladies" of the White House (Paper Doll Cut-outs)
1937
2008.33
Dry Land Fish Pond game
ca. 1880
2000.583
Eclectic Authors
ca. 1890
2000.530
Eddie Cantor's New Game: Tell It to the Judge
1936
2000.485
English History
1894
2000.624
Excursion to Coney Island
1875-1900
2000.750
Farrago
1882
2000.679
Fascination
ca. 1890
2000.271
Ferrilude or Game of Beasts
1873
2000.501
Fighting with the Boers
1902-1910
2000.453
Fish Pond
1909
2000.582
Fish pond
ca. 1890
2000.584
Fish Pond: A Popular Game
ca. 1880
2000.586
Game of Baseball
1886
2000.331
Game of Mail Express and Accommodation or Interstate Commerce
1895
2000.396
Game of Authors
ca. 1890
2000.542
Game of Ba-a Ba-a Black Sheep
1888
2000.693
Game of Bagatelle
1898
2000.598
Game of Bang
1903
2000.373
Game of Bicycle Race
1891
2000.352
Game of Bicycle Race
1895
2000.329
Game of Black Cat
ca. 1885
2000.573
Game of chance
1906
2000.460
Game of College Boat Race
1900
2000.394
Game of District Messenger Boy
1886
2000.721
Game of District Messenger Boy or Merit Rewarded
1886
2000.335
Game of Dr. Busby
ca. 1890
2000.574
Game of Dr. Fusby, M.D., A. S. S.
ca. 1890
2000.564
Game of Fish Pond
ca. 1890
2000.593
Game of Fish Pond
1890
2000.588
Game of Frog Pond
1890
2000.601
Game of Go-Bang
ca. 1890
2000.381
Game of Golf
1896
2000.343
Game of Illustrated Authors
ca. 1885
2000.524
Game of India
ca. 1895
2000.356
Game of India
ca. 1890
2000.357
Game of India
ca. 1890
2000.353
Game of Leap Frog
ca. 1890
2000.475
Game of Little Volunteer
1898
2000.378
Game of Lost Heir
ca. 1885
2000.643
Game of Musical Authors
1882
2000.526
Game of Mythology
1884
2000.519
Game of Napoleon: The Little Corporal
1895
2000.349
Game of Old Maid
ca. 1885
2000.625
Game of Old Maid
ca. 1900
2000.626
Game of Peter Coddles
1883-1895
2000.568
Game of Race Around the World
1898
2000.399
Game of Sailor Boy
1889
2000.599
Game of Snap
ca. 1885
2000.689
Game of Snap
ca. 1890
2000.698
Game of the Diamond Heart
1902
2000.327
Game of the Man in the Moon
1901
2000.497
Game of the Spider's Web
1898
2000.411
Game of the Telegraph Boy
ca. 1888
2000.342
Game of To the North Pole By Airship
1897
2000.397
Game of Trip 'Round the World
1897
2000.376
Game of Uncle Josh's Trip
1906
2000.753
Game of Uncle Sam's Mail
1893
2000.770
Game of War
ca. 1900
2000.483
Game of War at Sea or Don't Give Up the Ship
1898
2000.465
Game of Words and Sentences
ca. 1885
2000.642
Games of Checkers, Backgammon and Toussel
ca. 1875
2000.661
Games of Go-bang, Tivoli and Fox and Geese
ca. 1878
2000.662
Games of Jerome Park Steeple Chase, Balky Horse and Pool
ca. 1880
2000.703
Games of John Gilpin, Rainbow Backgammon and Bewildered Travelers
ca. 1875
2000.664
Games of Monopolist, Marniner's Compass and Ten Up
1878
2000.663
Games of Pilgrim's Progress, Going to Sunday School and Tower of Babel
1875
2000.674
Gavitt's Stock Exchange
1903
2000.450
Gems of Art
1880
2000.402
Goody Two Shoes Spelling Game
ca. 1880
2000.309
Grandmama's Arithmetical Game
ca. 1887
2000.613
Grandmama's Geographical Game
ca. 1910
2000.612
Grandmama's Geographical Game
1900
2000.763
Grandmama's Improved Game of Riddles
1887
2000.609
Grandmama's Improved Geographical Game
1887
2000.620
Grandmama's Sunday Game of Bible Questions: New Testament
1887
2000.610
Grandmama's Useful Knowledge
1887
2000.623
Gypsy-Lore Fortune Telling Cards
ca. 1930
2000.303
Happy Families Card Game
ca. 1880
2000.708
Hidden Titles: Fun for Parties
ca. 1910
2000.546
Hill's Alphabet Blocks
ca. 1875
2000.284
Hill's Spelling Blocks
1869
2000.726
History Up to Date
ca. 1904
2000.600
Home Baseball Game
1900
2000.717
Hood's War Game
ca. 1898
2000.602
Hook Fish Pond
ca. 1890
2000.591
How Silas Popped the Question
ca. 1915
2000.677
Hurdle Race: It is Great Sport
ca. 1905
2000.498
Improved Game of Tiddledy Winks
1890
2000.570
Improved Historical Cards
1884
2000.618
In the White House
1896
2000.504
India: An Oriental Game
ca. 1895
2000.359
India: An Oriental Game
1895
2000.360
Jack Straws
ca. 1890
2000.695
Jack Straws New Edition
ca. 1895
2000.669
Jack the Giant Killer
1890
2000.350
Jerome Park Steeple Chase
ca. 1885
2000.311
Jim Crow Ten Pins
1890-1910
2000.384
Komical Konversation Kards: A Kuriously Kontrived Kaptivating Kuriosity
1893
2000.561
Komikal Konversation Kards
ca. 1890
2000.731
Ladies & Gentlemen's Conversation Cards
ca. 1890
2000.559
Life's Mishaps: A Merry Game and Domino Rex
ca. 1880
2000.675
Literary Salad
1890
2000.523
Little Goldenlocks & the Three Bears: A Pleasing Game
1890
2000.716
Little Red Ridinghood
ca. 1890
2000.654
Lost Heir
1875
2000.650
Lost in the Woods
ca. 1890
2000.367
Lotto
ca. 1885
2000.457
Lotto
ca. 1885
2000.468
Lotto
ca. 1890
2000.473
Lotto
ca. 1890
2000.474
Madame Morrow's Fortune Telling Cards
1886
2000.307
Magic Dots for Little Tots
1907
2000.315
Magnetic Jack Straws
1891
2000.697
Mansion of Happiness
1864
2000.436
Mansion of Happiness
1894
2000.437
Mimic War
1890-1900
2000.480
Mixed Pickles
ca. 1890
2000.672
Mystic Cubes or the Spelling Bee Game
1891
2000.684
Nesting alphabet blocks
ca. 1900
2000.291
Nine Men Morris, Man in the Moon
ca. 1900
2000.490
Nursery Tiles Ilustrated by BOZ
1883
2000.314
O'Grady's Goat: A Merry Game
ca. 1895
2000.657
Old Fashioned Jack Straws
ca. 1890
2000.652
Old Fashioned Jack Straws
1888
2000.688
Old Maid
ca. 1900
2000.633
Palmistry
ca. 1910
2000.302
Peter Coddle Tells of his Trip to Chicago
ca. 1890
2000.554
Peter Coddle's Trip
ca. 1905
2000.571
Peter Coddle's Trip to New York
ca. 1890
2000.744
Peter Coddle's Trip to New York
ca. 1890
2000.736
Peter Coddle's Trip to New York
ca. 1890
2000.743
Peter Coddle's Trip to New York
1882
2000.746
Peter Coddle's Trip to New York
ca. 1890
2000.741
Peter Coddle's Trip to New York
ca. 1880
2000.742
Peter Coddle's Trip to the World's Fair
1939
2000.737
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
ca. 1890
2000.410
Picture Puzzle
ca. 1890
2000.295
Picture puzzle
1898
2000.472
Picture Puzzle Blocks
ca. 1890
2000.313
Pigs in the Clover
ca. 1875
2000.382
Pillow-Dex Tennis
1897
2000.431
Pit: Exciting Fun for Everyone
1919
2000.401
Portrait Authors
1873-1876
2000.535
Post Office Game
ca. 1897
1992.12.16
Post Office Game
1897
2000.719
Premium Game Logomachy or War of Wars
1875
2000.678
Rambles Through Our Country
1890
2000.446
Rival Policemen
1896
2000.711
Romany: The New Fortune Telling Game
1899
2000.379
Roosevelt at San Juan
1899
2000.766
Rough Rider Ten-Pins
ca. 1890
2000.718
Round the World
1873
2000.451
Round the World with Nellie Bly
1890
2000.448
Round the World with Nellie Bly
ca. 1890
1992.12.17
Schley at Santiago Bay
1899
2000.622
Setto: Game of Syllables
1882
2000.685
Soldier Ten Pins
ca. 1890
2000.477
Spedem Auto Race Game
1929
2000.513
Spin It
ca. 1926
2000.552
St. Nicholas Series Game of Snap
ca. 1900
2000.665
Table game
1908
2000.466
Table game
1897
2000.579
Telegraph Messenger
ca. 1890
2000.324
The Amusing Game of Innocence Abroad
ca. 1888
2000.395
The Black Cat Fortune Telling Game
1897
2000.301
The Board Game Old Maid
ca. 1900
2000.637
The Brownie Blocks
1891
2000.252
The Brownie's Scroll Puzzles: Skating and Snowballing
1891
2000.248
The Bugle Horn or Robin Hood and His Merry Men Game
1871
2000.732
The Cash Boy
ca. 1885
2000.681
The Checkered Game of Life
ca. 1910
2000.443
The Checkered Game of Life
1866
2000.496a
The Checkered Game of Life
1866
2000.496b
The Comical Game of Snap
ca. 1910
2000.690
The Comical Game of Who?
ca. 1910
2000.645
The Comical Game of Who?
ca. 1910
2000.687
The Country Fair
ca. 1891
2000.647
The Darktown Fancy Ball Puzzle
1894
2000.383
The Derby Steeplechase
1890
2000.226
The Doctors and the Quack: A Game
ca. 1887
2000.686
The Elite Conversation Cards
1887
2000.558
The Errand Boy: An Amusing Game
1891
2000.325
The Exciting Laughable New Game, Pillow-Dex
1896
2000.415
The Feast of Flowers: A Floral Game of Fortune
1869
2000.305
The Flying Four Great International Airplane Race
ca. 1930
2000.484
The Fortune Teller
1905
2000.306
The Funny Game of Hit or Miss
ca. 1900
2000.386
The Game of Old Maid
ca. 1890
2000.640
The Game of American History
ca. 1890
2000.767
The Game of Auction
1893
2000.651
The Game of Auction
1893
2000.683
The Game of Authors
ca. 1890
2000.527
The Game of Basket Ball
1898
2000.332
The Game of Cat
1898
2000.347
The Game of City Life or the Boys of New York
1889
2000.749
The Game of Commercial Traveler
ca. 1895
2000.439
The Game of District Messenger Boy
ca. 1888
2000.345
The Game of Dont's and Old Maid
1905
2000.639
The Game of Dr. Busby
1843
2000.506
The Game of Dr. Busby: America's Oldest Game
ca. 1900
2000.553
The Game of Fifteen
1870-1880
2000.266
The Game of Fish Pond
1899
2000.590
The Game of Fish Pond
ca. 1890
2000.605
The Game of Guess Again
ca. 1890
2000.608
The Game of Jack Sprat
1888
2000.646
The Game of Jack Straws
ca. 1888
2000.649
The Game of Jolly Tars
ca. 1895
2000.467
The Game of Leap Frog
ca. 1870
2000.434
The Game of Lost Heir
ca. 1900
2000.691
The Game of Mail, Express or Accommodation
ca. 1920
2000.322
The Game of Nations
ca. 1898
2000.614
The Game of Old Maid
ca. 1932
2000.628
The Game of Penny Post
1892
2000.321
The Game of Peter Coddles
ca. 1890
2000.557
The Game of Phoebe Snow
1909
2000.445
The Game of Playing Department Store
1898
2000.715
The Game of Politics or the Race for the Presidency
1887
2000.725
The Game of Politics or the Race for the Presidency
1889
2000.308
The Game of Puss in the Corner
ca. 1890
2000.596
The Game of Ring Toss
ca. 1890
2000.278
The Game of Rough Riders
ca. 1900
2000.438
The Game of Snap
1872
2000.704
The Game of Store
ca. 1890
2000.759
The Game of Telegraph Boy or Merit Rewarded
1888
2000.323
The Game of Tiddledy Winks
ca. 1890
2000.578
The Game of Tight Rope
1870
2000.723
The Game of Watermelon Patch
1896
2000.300
The Game of What D'ye Buy
ca. 1895
2000.694
The Giant Nest of ABC and Picture Blocks
ca. 1900
2000.221
The Golden Eagle Anagrams: A Prize game
1889
2000.696
The Good Old Game of Corner Grocery
1887
2000.702
The Good Old Game of Proverbs
ca. 1890
2000.544
The Great Game Uncle Sam at War with Spain
1898
2000.724
The Historiscope Panorama and History of Americas
ca. 1875
2000.757
The Home Fish Pond
ca. 1890
2000.585
The Home History Game
1909
2000.765
The Horseless Carriage Race
1900
2000.299
The Improved Game of Fish Pond
1890
2000.606
The Improved Game of Fish Pond
1890
2000.587
The Improved Game of Snap
1889
2000.699
The Improved game of Snip, Snap, Snorum
1887
2000.385
The Jolly Game of Old Maid
ca. 1890
2000.630
The Limited Mail and Express Game
1894
2000.333
The Little Cowboy Game
ca. 1895
2000.319
The Lively Game of Scramble
1896
2000.380
The Mansion of Happiness
1895
2000.495
The Merry Game of Country Auction
1880-1890
2000.682
The New and Improved Game of Fish Pond
1890
2000.595
The New and Improved Game of Fish Pond
1890
2000.592
The New Game of Familiar Quotations from Popular Authors
1887
2000.538
The New Game of Illustrated Proverbs
ca. 1880
2000.705
The New Game of King's Quoits
1893
2000.456
The New Game of Migration
1890
2000.769
The New Game of Teddy's Bear Hunt
1907
2000.370
The New Pilgrim's Progress
1893
2000.454
The New Pretty Village Boathouse Set
1897
2000.440
The New York Battleship Puzzle
ca. 1898
2000.462
The News Boy Game
1895
2000.336
The Picture Alphabet
ca. 1875
2000.281
The Popular Game of Broadway
1917
2000.710
The Premium Game of Logomachy or War of Words
1889
2000.692
The Premium Game of Logomachy or War of Words
1889
2000.656
The Pretty Village
1890
2000.442
The Professional Game of Baseball
ca. 1890
2000.344
The Round Game of Tiddledy Winks
1890
2000.577
The Sociable Telephone
1902
2000.734
The Three Bears and Life's Mishaps
1898
2000.492
The Troublesome Donkeys
1898
2000.398
The Whirlpool Game
ca. 1899
2000.463
The World Educator and Game
1919
2000.486
The World's Educator
1887
2000.269
The Yacht Race Game
ca. 1887
2000.491
Tiddledy Winks
1890
2000.576
Tiddledy Winks
ca. 1890
2000.580
Tiddledy Winks
ca. 1890
2000.459
Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son
ca. 1890
2000.409
Transparent Slate
1873
2000.461
Tug of War
1898
2000.369
Uncle Sam's Family
1876
2000.764
Uncle Sam's Mail
ca. 1900
2000.712
What Do You Buy?
ca. 1885
2000.671
What's His Name?
1902
2000.540
When My Ship Comes In
ca. 1888
2000.516
Wonder blocks
ca. 1885
2000.272
Yankee Doodle: A Game of American History
1895
2000.354
Yankee Peddler or What Do You Buy?
1865-1870
2000.666
Young Folks Geographical Game
ca. 1890
2000.762
Young Folks Historical Game
ca. 1890
2000.761
Young People's Geographical Game
ca. 1890
2000.621
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