Set of bingo cards from the Rock Rest Tourist Home: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A set of forty-five (45) bingo cards. Each card is grey card stock with black ink, five-by-five grid with an assortment of numbers and the text [(FREE)] in the center square. In block text at the top and bottom is the text [BINGO]. The backs of the cards are blank.

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: playing cards
• Medium: ink on card stock
• Dimensions: H x W (Individual cards): 6 7/16 × 3 7/8 in. (16.4 × 9.8 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (Stack of cards): 6 7/16 × 3 7/8 × 1 1/4 in. (16.4 × 9.8 × 3.1 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: 2011.12.50.1
• 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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