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Gouache on heavy paper, laid on Japanese paper, wrapped over board
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Museum Collections
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
The Game of Basket Ball
Title
The Game of Basket Ball
Date
1898
Medium
Cardboard, paper, wood
Dimensions
Overall: 1 1/4 x 22 x 12 7/8 in. ( 3.2 x 55.9 x 32.7 cm )
Description
"The Game of Basket Ball" baord game with a paper covered cardboard gameboard and box; board applied across the bottom half of the box with a flap at one side that lifts up to store playing implements; board chromolithographed with a blue, yellow and pink checkerboard with baskets at each end and circles in some of the squares; box cover chromolithographed with an image of girls playing basket ball; box cover inscribed, "THE GAME/ OF/ BASKET BALL/ COPYRIGHT 1898, BY CHAFFEE & SELCHOW, NEW YORK/ PUBLISHED BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS.,/ NEW YORK".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.332
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE GAME/ OF/ BASKET BALL/ COPYRIGHT 1898, BY CHAFFEE & SELCHOW, NEW YORK/ PUBLISHED BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS.,/ NEW YORK".
Gallery Label
Women's basketball was first introduced at the Northampton, Massachusetts campus of Smith College in 1892, less than one year after the game's invention. Women played basketball at recreation centers, YWCAs, college gymnasiums, settlement houses, and high schools across the country. In New York, one Brooklyn high school had 32 teams competing in intramural contests.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
