Collection Highlights
Study of Four Tree Trunks (Three Birches)
ca. 1855
1918.325
Graphite with scratching out on beige paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
The Comical Game of Who?
Title
The Comical Game of Who?
Object name
Card game
Date
ca. 1910
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
Overall: 1 1/2 x 6 5/8 x 5 1/8 in. ( 3.8 x 16.8 x 13 cm )
Description
"The Comical Game of Who?" card game with 60 playing cards, an instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover lithographed with a polychrome image of a man with a hooked nose and glasses standing in front of five people seated at a table; box cover inscribed, "THE/ COMICAl GAME/ OF/Who?"/ FOR ANY NUMBER/ OF PLAYERS/ 156/ "Who is the/ hansomest man here?"/ "I am!"/ PARKER/ BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."; 60 playing cards printed with comical questions and answers.
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.645
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE/ COMICAl GAME/ OF/Who?"/ FOR ANY NUMBER/ OF PLAYERS/ 156/ "Who is the/ hansomest man here?"/ "I am!"/ PARKER/ BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
