Deck, Card
- Title:
- Old Maid
- Object Name:
- Deck, Card
- Object ID:
- 1994.006.45
- Creator:
- Whitman Publishing Company
Printer - Place of Origin:
- Racine, WI
- Date:
- circa 1950
- Description:
- Card game, "Old Maid." In original box, imprinted on front and back, "OLD MAID / CARD GAME", with image of an elderly woman wearing flowered hat. Top flap imprinted, "FORTY-FIVE CARD DECK / No. 3009-15 WHITMAN PUBLISHING CO." Includes 43 playing cards, two cards missing. Cards depict circus acts.
- Material:
- Paper
Cardboard - Dimensions:
- H-3.75 W-2.5 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
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