Museum Collections
Luce Center
Game of Messenger Boy
Title
Game of Messenger Boy
Date
ca. 1897
Medium
Cardboard
Dimensions
board (open): 7 x 14 in. (17.8 x 35.6 cm)
Description
Board game with remains of box lid and board (not folded); cover illustration of boy in blue uniform with slip of paper, in front of city scene of lighted storefronts and multistory buildings, with spray of flowers at lower right corner and scroll decoration at upper left; board with orange boxes with red lines marked with arrows and instructions; illustrations at each corner: home scene, jail, small boy in front of man seated at desk.
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
1992.12.9
Marks
lithographed: on lid, top: "GAME OF/MESSENGER/BOY"
lithographed: on lid, bottom: "MANUFACTURED BY/J. H. SINGER/NEW YORK"
written: in ink, bottom of lid: "Frank Proutant 1897"
lithographed: on board: "DIRECTIONS./The players spin the Indicator in turn... [directions continue]"
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.




