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Checkerboard

Collection Type

  • Toys and games

Date

1880-1920

GUSN

GUSN-3276

Description

Large board with frame and squares painted in pumpkin yellow, with four freehand painted divisions of landscapes at the ends of the board. One side of the board has numbered squares.

Details

Descriptive Terms

checkerboards
wood (plant material)
oil paint (paint)
checkerboards
Wood
Oil Paint
Pencil
Painted
Landscape
Checkerboard

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

29 1/2 x 18 3/4 x 1 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1060

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