Collection Highlights
Statue of Liberty, Bedloe's Island, New York
1888
1972.24
Watercolor over graphite on paper, overmatted
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Museum Collections
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
Historical Puzzle Box
Title
Historical Puzzle Box
Object name
Picture puzzle
Date
ca. 1900
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
each (puzzle): 13 x 18 in. (33 x 45.7 cm)
Box (top): 13 1/8 x 18 1/2 in. (33.3 x 47 cm)
Description
"Historical Puzzle Box" set of two thirty paper covered cardboard piece puzzles, one of a colonial drum and fyfe corp marching to battle and the other an image of a battle between red coated colonial British troops and a colonial Massachussetts regiment carrying pine tree flags with a harbor in the background; box top chromolithographed with the two puzzle images and an image of Washington crossing the Delaware divided by an American bald eagle pearch on a U.S. shield; box top inscribed, "HISTORICAL/ PUZZLE/ BOX/ MILTON BRADLEY CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS."
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.364
Marks
lithographed: on the box top: "HISTORICAL/ PUZZLE/ BOX/ MILTON BRADLEY CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
