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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Robinson, Mary Hester, 1832–1904
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Thomas De La Rue & Company
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Books
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Period
19th century
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18th century
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game
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recreation
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botanical illustration
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playing card
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watercolor
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acrostic
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aquatint
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armorial bookplates (provenance)
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board games (game sets)
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charade
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chess set
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chromolithograph
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embossed print
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engraving
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lithograph
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mechanical toy
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notebook
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puzzle
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ribbon (material)
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riddle
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Fortune-telling -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Women in natural history.
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Amusements -- Germany -- 19th century.
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Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain.
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Cary, Mary Flagler -- Ownership.
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Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892–1941 -- Ownership.
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Checkers.
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Chess.
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De La Rue & Co. -- Publisher
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Engraving -- Specimens -- 1815.
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Fairburn, J. -- Publisher.
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Financial crises -- Great Britain.
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Flick, Reuben Jay -- Bookplate.
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Flowers -- Pictorial works.
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Games -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Robinson, Mary Hester, 1832–1904
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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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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 Gloria Scheuer
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English
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German
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Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings
[ca. 1815?]
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Fortune teller's notebook
[1829?]
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Fortune-telling wheels
circa 1870
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[All the bubbles]
[1720]
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Thomas De La Rue & Company
De La Rue & Co.'s combined pocket chess and draught board
[187-?]
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Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties
1830
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Marriage fortune telling game
ca. 1840?
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The two riders =
[circa 1855?]
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Robinson, Mary Hester, 1832–1904
Charades, enigmas, riddles, and acrostics
1861
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Parlor game
ca. 1831
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The poets
ca. [1861?]