games
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Forms of competitive play, usually involving an element of strategy, especially to interfere with an opponent's play; may or may not require physical skill.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Hidden book titles game
Collection — Box BW 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16457
Dates:
circa late19th century
Hidden book titles game
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2018-0040
Dates:
circa late19th century
Judy's Neighbors: Negro Family: set of wooden African American figures and stands (Addition 26) 2023-0195, 1964
File — Flat_box 2: [Barcode: X032762380]
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a game titled "Judy's Neighbors: Negro Family." It includes two dimensional pressed wood figures of an African-American family including mother, father, daughter, and two sons. There are also stands for the figures. Judy's Neighbors was released sometime between 1963 and 1964.This was part of a series and was sold individually and in sets. Teachers used the...
Dates:
1964
"What are you Like?" Victorian parlor game
Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178784]
Identifier: MSS 16880
Content Description
This collection contains a Victorian parlor game titled "What are you Like?" The game, published by D. Sarney of Leamington, United Kingdom, in the 1870s, includes nineteen questionnaire sheets.
The sheets are character sketches created by a group of Victorian men and women, presumably as part of a house party. Each sheet has a photograph or sketch of the player. Each sheet poses eight questions to be answered with an illustration: "Proverb or Motto," "Favourite occupation,"...
Dates:
c. 1870s
World War I wooden puzzle game "The Silver Bullet or The Road to Berlin" (Addition 27) 2023-0196, 1915
File — Flat_box 5
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a 9.5" x 6.5" wooden puzzle with a wooden frame and a glass window titled the Silver Bullet: Or the Road to Berlin. Original metal ball and elements intact. Directions on the verso of the game. British dexterity puzzle for a juvenile audience, made of wood and glass. The game's object is maneuvering a metal ball through a winding course,...
Dates:
1915