Collection Highlights
Three Iroquois: Atotárho Protected by Black Snakes, Flanked by Deganawida Offering Wampum and Hiawatha
c. 1827
X.520[dup]
Watercolor, black and brown ink, and brown gouache over graphite on beige paper, laid on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Mixed Pickles
Title
Mixed Pickles
Object name
Card game
Date
ca. 1890
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
Overall: 1 x 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. ( 2.5 x 9.5 x 12.1 cm )
Description
"Mixed Pickles" card game with ninety playing cards, thirty of each red, white and blue, in a paper covered cardboard box; box chromolithographed with an image of a dog pulling a table cloth off a game table surrounded by four children; box cover inscribed, "MIXED/ PICKLES/ PUBLISHED BY SELCHOW & RIGHTER, NEW YORK".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.672
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "MIXED/ PICKLES/ PUBLISHED BY SELCHOW & RIGHTER, NEW YORK".
Gallery Label
Players of Mixed Pickles create an original story by combining phrases contained on the game cards. The game manufacturer assured buyers that players would be "convulsed with laughter at the ludicrous combination of sentences."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
