Museum Collections
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
Card game
Object name
Card game
Date
1896
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Description
"White Squadron" card game with 52 playing cards with images of a battleship chromolithographed on the backs, faces depict U.S. battleships and their statistics, and two advertising cards in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover printed, "EDUCATIONAL GAMES/ No 1108/ WHITE/ SQUADRON/ COPYRIGHTED 1896, BY/ THE FIRESIDE GAME CO./ THE CINCINNATI GAME CO./ SUCCESSORS/ CINCINNATI, U.S.A."
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.503
Marks
printed: on the box cover: "EDUCATIONAL GAMES/ No 1108/ WHITE/ SQUADRON/ COPYRIGHTED 1896, BY/ THE FIRESIDE GAME CO./ THE CINCINNATI GAME CO./ SUCCESSORS/ CINCINNATI, U.S.A."
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