Collection Highlights
Four Portraits of North American Indians; verso: sketch of brave riding a horse and shooting a bow and arrow
1859
1941.1209
Oil on gray marbleized prepared heavy textured paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Card game
Object name
Card game
Date
ca. 1890
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
box: 1 1/8 x 6 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. ( 2.9 x 17.1 x 13.7 cm )
Description
Card game "American Eagle Educational Series: Geography" with 48 playing cards in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover lithographed with an image of an American bald eagle with a laurel branch in its talon; box cover inscribed, "American Eagle/ EDUCATIONAL SERIES/ GEOGRAPHY/ PARKER BROTHERS, INC. SALEM, MASS., U.S.A.".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.616
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "American Eagle/ EDUCATIONAL SERIES/ GEOGRAPHY/ PARKER BROTHERS, INC. SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
