Deck, Card
- Title:
- Hearts
- Object Name:
- Deck, Card
- Object ID:
- 1994.006.44
- Creator:
- Whitman Publishing Company
Printer - Place of Origin:
- Racine, WI
- Date:
- circa 1951
- Description:
- Card game, "Hearts," in original box. Box front and back imprinted in color, "HEARTS / CARD / GAME", with image of monkey. Top flap imprinted, "HEARTS CARD GAME / FORTY-FIVE CARD DECK / No. 4114 / PRINTED / IN / U.S.A. / Whitman Publishing Company". Includes 41 playing cards; 4 cards missing. Cards depict animals and hearts. With instruction card, imprinted at bottom, "Made in U.S.A. Copyright, MCMLI, by / WHITMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY / Racine, Wisconsin".
- Material:
- Paper
Cardboard - Dimensions:
- H-3.7 W-2.4 D-0.7 inches
- Provenance:
- Jane Chworowsky (1929-1993), was born in PA and raised in Newport, NH. She attended Plymouth State College, and briefly taught English in Charlestown, NH (1953-55). She ran an antiques business -- Jane's Cabin Antiques -- at her home in Croydon, NH. She bequeathed the contents of her home and business to NHHS.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Jane Lee Chworowsky
- Subjects:
- Card games, Hearts, Monkeys
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