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19th century
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game
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engraving
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board game
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anagram
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playing card
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puzzle
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riddle
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toy
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tunnel book
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Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Ackermann, R. -- Publisher
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Amusements -- France.
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Architecture.
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Block building (Children's activity)
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Bridges -- England -- London.
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Charades.
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Educational games -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
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Engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1820.
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Fables.
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Flowers -- Pictorial works.
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Fortune-telling -- Great Britain.
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France -- Social life and customs.
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Gide fils -- Publisher.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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Harrison, L. -- Printer
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Historic buildings -- England -- London.
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Historic buildings.
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Great Britain
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France
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London (England)
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Waterloo Bridge (London, England)
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Exhibition History
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
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Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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English
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[Teleorama]
[approximately 1825?]
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Wallis's elegant and instructive game exhibiting the wonders of art, in each quarter of the world
[ca. 1820]
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The royal game of British sovereigns,
[1820]
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Marriage fortune telling game
ca. 1840?
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Charades en actions
approximately 1820?
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Collection of riddles
circa 1820?
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A survey of London, by a party of tarry-at-home travellers
[1820]
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Waterloo Bridge dissected into 151 pieces
[ca. 1830?]
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Fables in action
1820
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The game of human life
[ca. 1820]