Collection Highlights
Camp Bed
1777-1785
1871.8
Wood, canvas, iron
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Museum Collections
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
Card game
Object name
Card game
Date
1887
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
box: 1 x 6 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. ( 2.5 x 16.2 x 11.4 cm )
each card: 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. ( 8.9 x 6.4 cm )
Description
"Mother Goose's Party or the Merry Game of Old Maid" card game with 43 chromolithographed paper playing cards and an instruction card in a paper covered cardboard box; chromolithographed cards in pairs with vignettes from nursery rhymes printed on each including "Old King Cole", "Little Jack Horner", etc. and a single old maid; box chromolithographed with a witch, an old lady and personified animals playing cards; box cover inscribed, "MOTHER GOOSE'S PARTY/ OR THE/ MERRY/ GAME OF/ OLD MAID/ McLOUGHLIN BROS. N. Y."
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.629
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "MOTHER GOOSE'S PARTY/ OR THE/ MERRY/ GAME OF/ OLD MAID/ McLOUGHLIN BROS. N. Y."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
