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History Up to Date

History Up to Date
Title
History Up to Date
Object name 
Card game
Date 
ca. 1904
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Parker Brothers
Medium 
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions 
box: 1 1/4 x 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. ( 3.2 x 17.1 x 13.3 cm )
Description 
Card game "History Up to Date" with 48 playing cards, an instruction booklet and an advertising card in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover lithographed with an image of soldiers in Civil War costume firing cannons; box cover inscribed, "HISTORY/ UP TO DATE/ PARKER BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."
Credit Line 
The Liman Collection
Object Number 
2000.600
Marks 
lithographed: on the box cover: "HISTORY/ UP TO DATE/ PARKER BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.