Collection Highlights
Physician's saddlebags w/bottles & bundles
1800-1850
1954.11
Leather, metal, glass, paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
College Football Game
Title
College Football Game
Date
1897
Medium
Cardboard, paper, wood
Dimensions
Overall: 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. ( 1.9 x 34.3 x 54 cm )
Description
"College Football Game" board game in a paper covered cardboard box with a paper covered cardboard gameboard and four cardboard and wooden teetotems; on the cover of cardboard box, lithographed illustrations of two teams of boys playing football with stands in the background and two illustrations of carriages; box cover inscribed, "COLLEGE/ FOOT BALL/ GAME"; board with the same illustrations as the box around a grid representing a football field labeled "GOAL" at each end and "CENTRE" twice on the center line; lithographed across the bottom of the gameboard, "COPYRIGHTED 1897, BY H.D. VAN NOSTRAND, NEW YORK."
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.374
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "COLLEGE/ FOOT BALL/ GAME"
lithographed: on the board, in the center: "GOAL" at each end and "CENTRE" twice on the center line
lithographed: across the bottom of the board: ; lithographed across the bottom of the gameboard, "COPYRIGHTED 1897, BY H.D. VAN NOSTRAND, NEW YORK."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.