Johns Hopkins University
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Johns Hopkins University collection of games and toys
Collection
Identifier: MS-0843
Abstract
The Johns Hopkins University collection of vintage games and toys is an artificially assembled collection of materials purchased and selected by the curators of Special Collections. It spans from 1796 to 2020.
Dates:
1796 - 2021
Found in:
Special Collections
Johns Hopkins University World's Fair collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0545
Abstract
This artificially-assembled collection consists of materials relating to international World's Fairs and Expositions, including photographs; postcards; written travelogues or personal accounts of the fairs; ephemera, including programs and printed souvenirs; lithographs and engravings; and physical objects. The materials date from the 1830s to the 1960s.
Dates:
1830s-1967
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Actors 1
- Animals 1
- Authors 1
- Comedians 1
- Corn in art 1
- Costume dolls 1
- Customs inspection 1
- Dice games 1
- Dresses 1
- Exhibitions 1
- Facsimiles 1
- Fashion 1
- Fortune-telling 1
- France 1
- Games 1
- Geographical recreations 1
- Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847. Fleurs animees 1
- Great Britain 1
- Illinois--Chicago 1
- Infants' clothing 1
- International airports 1
- Lakes 1
- Motion picture actors and actresses 1
- New York (State)--New York 1
- Pictorial works 1
- Poetry 1
- Printed ephemera 1
- Printing industry 1
- Printing presses 1
- Projectors 1
- Proverbs, Yiddish 1
- Riddles 1
- Shadow shows 1
- Silent films 1
- Smuggling 1
- Toys 1
- Twelfth night (Shakespeare, William) 1
- United States 1
- Women's clothing 1
- Women--Suffrage 1
- Wooden toys 1
- artifacts (object genre) 1
- bingo 1
- board games (game sets) 1
- brochures 1
- card games (game sets) 1
- chromolithographs 1
- cigarette cards 1
- diaries 1
- educational toys 1
- ephemera (general object genre) 1
- instruction card 1
- instructional materials 1
- jigsaw puzzles 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- lithographs 1
- optical toys 1
- panoramic scrolls 1
- paper dolls 1
- phenakistoscopes 1
- phonograph records 1
- photograph albums 1
- photographs 1
- postcards 1
- scrapbooks 1
- screen prints 1
- souvenirs 1
- tourist maps 1
- travel literature 1 + ∧ less
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