Collection Highlights
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
1824
1940.202
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Card game
Object name
Card game
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
box: 1 x 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. ( 2.5 x 15.9 x 12.1 cm )
Description
Card game "Great Battlefields: A Parlor Game" with 16 playing cards and an instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover printed with an image of soldiers in Civil War costume firing cannons; box cover inscribed, "Great Battlefields./ A PARLOR/ GAME./ GEO. S. PARKER & CO./ SALEM, MASS.".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.615
Marks
printed: on the box: "Great Battlefields./ A PARLOR/ GAME./ GEO. S. PARKER & CO./ SALEM, MASS.".
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