Date: 1870

Medium: Cardboard, paper

Dimensions: Overall: 9 1/4 x 11 1/8 in. (23.5 x 28.3 cm)

Description: "The Game of Tight Rope" bi-fold, paper covered cardboard game board; board chromolithographed with an image of four clowns crossing a tightrope above a river with a waterfall in the background, one man is falling into the river and two men are swimming out to a boat in the lower right corner, below tight rope is a numbered grid; board inscribed, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870, by McLOUGHLIN BROS., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington./ GAME OF TIGHT ROPE."; Label on the revese of the board with a man walking on a tight rope and the inscription, "GAME OF/ TIGHT/ ROPE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS. NEW YORK."

Credit Line: The Liman Collection

Object Number: 2000.723

Marks: lithographed: on the board: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870, by McLOUGHLIN BROS., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington./ GAME OF TIGHT ROPE." Label on the revese of the board with a man walking on a tight rope and the inscription, "GAME OF/ TIGHT/ ROPE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS. NEW YORK." lithographed: label on the revese of the board: "GAME OF/ TIGHT/ ROPE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS. NEW YORK."