Collection Highlights
Portrait of an Unidentified Woman
ca. 1700-1725
1952.80
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
Hurdle Race: It is Great Sport
Title
Hurdle Race: It is Great Sport
Date
ca. 1905
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
Overall: 1 1/4 x 1 3/8 x 11 3/8 in. ( 3.2 x 3.5 x 28.9 cm )
Description
"Hurdle Race: It is Great Sport" board game with four wooden playing pieces, a cardboard spinner and a paper board applied to the bottom half of the paper covered cardboard box; chromolithographed board with an oval race track with numerous characters in the center and around the board; box cover lithographed with a steeple chase race being run by six characters including a personified elephant; two keystone cops look on and drag a woman out of the water trap; box cover inscribed, "HURDLE RACE/ IT IS GREAT SPORT/ MILTON BRADLEY CO. SPRINGFIELD, MASS."
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.498
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "HURDLE RACE/ IT IS GREAT SPORT/ MILTON BRADLEY CO. SPRINGFIELD, MASS."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
