Snake game rules: History and Collection Facts

Catalogue description

Print showing a game board with red, gold, and blue spaces, numbered between 1 and 122; on the board are illustrations that are numbered and correspond to the blue "starred" spaces, which are action spots, the player landing on one follows the instructions given with the corresponding illustration, and moves accordingly. At the beginning of the game is a portrait of George Washington and at the end, a rustic looking homestead identified as the "home of the Washington family."

Collection details

• Catalogue date: [between 1840 and 1860]
• Original format: Photo, print, drawing
• Medium: 1 print : wood engraving, hand-colored.
• Language: English
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
• Call number: PGA - Unattributed--Snake game rules (D size) [P&P]
• Catalogue subjects: Washington, George,--1732-1799; Board games--1830-1860

Catalogue notes

• Forms part of: Alfred Bendiner Memorial Collection (Library of Congress).

Sources and reuse

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