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The Golden Eagle Anagrams: A Prize game

The Golden Eagle Anagrams: A Prize game
Title
The Golden Eagle Anagrams: A Prize game
Object name 
Card game
Date 
1889
Medium 
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions 
Overall: 1 1/2 x 3 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. ( 3.8 x 9.8 x 12.4 cm )
Description 
"The Golden Eagle Anagrams: A Prize game" table game with 160 cardboard tiles printed with a letter and an instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box has a chromolithographed image of a girl and a boy dressed as indians with feather headdresses playing with dog; box inscribed, "THE/ GOLDEN EAGLE/ Anagrams/ A PRIZE GAME/ COPYRIGHTED BY McLOUGHLIN BROS, NEW YORK, 1889."
Credit Line 
The Liman Collection
Object Number 
2000.696
Marks 
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE/ GOLDEN EAGLE/ Anagrams/ A PRIZE GAME/ COPYRIGHTED BY McLOUGHLIN BROS, NEW YORK, 1889."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Creative: Tronvig Group