Collection Highlights
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
Date:
1932
Object Number:
LIB.NS11.M14.1.20
Medium:
black and color ink on paper, backed with cloth
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Game of Bicycle Race
Object Number:
2000.329
Date:
1895
Medium:
Carboard, paper, wood, lead
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/8 x 21 7/8 x 12 7/8 in. ( 2.9 x 55.6 x 32.7 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME oF/ BICYCLE/ RACE/ COPYRIGHTED 1895 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., NEW YORK."
Description:
"The Game of Bicycle Race" board game with two cardboard spinners, four colored lead bicycle riding figures and a board set into the bottom of the paper covered wooden box; board is a map of the southern shore and center of Long Island with a gold path between the towns and the "Bicycle Club"; lithographed box cover has an image of personified cats, dogs and rabbits riding bicycles with a fallen pug in the foreground; board inscribed, "GAME OF/ BICYCLE/ RACE/ COPYRIGHTED 1895 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., NEW YORK."; instructions printed on the underside of the cover.
Bibliography:
Hofer, Margaret K. "The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board & Table Games." New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
