Box of poker chips from the Rock Rest Tourist Home: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A box of cardboard red, white, and blue poker chips. The box top is red with a black bottom. On the box top is a blue band with white text that reads [POKER / CHIPS] and white text on red that reads [UNBREAKABLE] and [NOISELESS]. The box top is decorated with illustrations of stacks of red, white, and blue poker chips. On the short end of the box is white text on both short sides that reads [100 / POKER CHIPS / ASSORTED / COLORS]. The interior of the box has three (3) vertical dividers to separate the four (4) stacks of chips. The box contains ninety-one (91) poker chips: forty-four (44) white chips, twenty-four (24) red chips, and twenty-three (23) blue chips. The chips are painted cardboard and are blank on both sides.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: mid 20th century
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Owned by: Clayton Sinclair, American
• Owned by: Hazel Sinclair, American
• Subject of: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
• Type: poker chips
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product) on cardboard
• Medium: paint on cardboard
• Dimensions: H x W x D (Box): 1 5/8 × 6 1/2 × 2 15/16 in. (4.2 × 16.5 × 7.5 cm)
• Dimensions: Diameter (Chips): 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)
• Place collected: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
• Place made: 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: 2011.12.49
• 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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