Collection Highlights
Wig curler
1760-1775
INV.5924.77
Clay
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Museum Collections
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
Game of College Boat Race
Title
Game of College Boat Race
Date
1900
Medium
Cardboard, wood, paper, metal
Dimensions
Overall: 1 x 21 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. ( 2.5 x 54.6 x 32.4 cm )
Description
"Game of College Boat Race" board game in a paper covered cardboard box with a paper gameboard applied to the bottom half of the card board box, four wooden playing pieces and a cardboard spinner with a metal arrow; box cover chromolithographed with three sculls filled with rowers on a river with a grandstand in the background; box cover inscribed, "GAME OF/ COLLEGE/ BOAT/ RACE/ McLOUGHIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ COPYRIGHT 1900 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."; board chromolithographed with a u-shaped track around an island with a boat house at the shore and a house on a hill, track surrounded by many types of boats and an island in the upper right corner;directions printed on the underside of the box cover.
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.394
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME OF/ COLLEGE/ BOAT/ RACE/ McLOUGHIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ COPYRIGHT 1900 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
