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

The object in the museum catalogue

A set of sixty-four (64) numbered bingo chips. The chips are solid wood with red ink. The chips are have small letters carved above larger numbers on one side, and are blank on the back. The set includes: two B1, one B3, one B5, one D6, one D7, one B11, two B15, one, I16, two I17, one I18, two I19, two I20, one I21, one I22, two I23, one I24, one I26, one 128, one I29, one I30, one N31, one N32, one N33, one N34, one N35, three N37, One N38, one N39, one N40, one N41, one N42, one N43, one G46, two G47, one G49, one G51, one G52, one G56, two G58, one O62, one O63, one O64, One O66, one O67, one O68, two O69, one O70, one O71, two O72, one 073, two 074 chips.

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: chips
• Medium: ink on wood
• Dimensions: H x W x D (Individual Chips): 3/16 × 11/16 × 11/16 in. (0.5 × 1.7 × 1.7 cm)
• Dimensions: Diameter (Individual Chips): 11/16 in. (1.7 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: 2011.12.50.2
• 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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