Bags of bingo chips from the Rock Rest Tourist Home: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Sixteen (16) bags of bingo chips: Nine (9) bags of green chips and seven (7) bags of red chips. Each plastic bag contains approximately forty (40) plain, transparent plastic chips. Blue text on the front of each bag reads [Sanitary / CHIPS / for / "BINGO" / "LOTTO" / and other games / NON-INFLAMMABLE / MADE IN U.S.A.].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: mid 20th century
• Owned by: Clayton Sinclair, American
• Owned by: Hazel Sinclair, American
• Subject of: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
• Type: gaming counters
• Medium: plastic
• Dimensions: Diameter (Chip diameter): 9/16 in. (1.5 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (2011.12.50.3a): 3 5/8 × 1 7/8 × 7/16 in. (9.2 × 4.8 × 1.1 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (2011.12.50.3b): 3 9/16 × 1 7/8 × 5/8 in. (9.1 × 4.7 × 1.6 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (2011.12.50.3c): 2 15/16 × 1 3/4 × 5/8 in. (7.5 × 4.5 × 1.6 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (2011.12.50.3d): 3 9/16 × 1 7/8 × 1/2 in. (9.1 × 4.8 × 1.2 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (2011.12.50.3e): 3 9/16 × 2 1/16 × 9/16 in. (9.1 × 5.2 × 1.5 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (2011.12.50.3f): 3 9/16 × 2 × 1/2 in. (9.1 × 5.1 × 1.2 cm)
• Place collected: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Amusements
• Topic: Black Enterprise
• Topic: Black interiors
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Recreation
• Topic: Segregation
• Topic: Travel
• Object number: 2011.12.50.3a-p
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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