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Toy.

Description: Patent for a whirligig toy, containing a rotatable platform carrying horse and sleigh figurines that spin in the same direction.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Curtis, Zenas Albert
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Playing-Cards.

Description: Patent for a card game that aims to teach players the workings of the electoral college. There are 208 cards, divided into four types: "eagle," "star," "banner," "flag," and gathering one of each type gives the player an electoral vote. The cards feature presidential candidates of the mid-1800s.
Date: March 27, 1906
Creator: Noonan, James Harrison
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Game

Description: Patent for a game. This invention is board-game simulating base-ball. Illustration included.
Date: January 6, 1907
Creator: Grant, Joseph T.
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Game.

Description: Patent for a four-player checker game and a hinged gameboard to play it on which provides storage for the checkers when folded.
Date: March 27, 1917
Creator: Mason, James H.
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[Jumping over grapevine]

Description: Photograph of a boy leaping over a grapevine being held between two girls. There is another boy in the background ready to take his turn leaping over the outstretched vine.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Children playing "drop the handkerchief"]

Description: Photograph of school children at recess playing a game called, "drop the handkerchief." The students are standing in a circle holding hands as two other children run around them. There is a separate young child standing in the foreground of the image.
Date: 1940
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Frontier Playland Park]

Description: Photograph of Frontier Playland Park at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, four boys wearing cowboy hats crowd around a covered wagon. A metal fence behind the wagon is decorated with streamers and flags.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
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[A Game of Bocci]

Description: Color photograph of a game of bocce ball in progress next to a vine-covered metal fence at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Large black and red balls surround the smaller, orange ball, known as the jack, or the boccino ball. Three people stand in the background; one of them has just launched a red ball, which is in the air.
Date: [1978-08-03..1978-08-06]
Creator: Informedia
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Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Kissing outside the ring]

Description: Photograph of a young couple kissing while playing a kissing game at a sorghum molasses stir-off. There is an internal ring of alternating young men and women holding hands while this couple stands outside of it. The envelope containing the negative is annotated "stir-off".
Date: 194X
Creator: Clark, Joe
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United Fund Agencies

Description: Photograph of two older boys with ping pong paddles in their hands. One boy is sitting on a ping pong table, and is holding a ping pong ball. In the background, there is a chair and television. They are identified as part of the United Fund Agencies.
Date: 1958
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Game-Board.

Description: Patent for a game board that includes barriers, inclines, and depressions in the board which is meant to simulate a game similar to baseball (as well as other games) using a cue ball. The game board also comes with auxiliary barriers to adjust gameplay.
Date: July 12, 1921
Creator: Sterling, Don L.
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Toy.

Description: Patent for a toy consisting of two movable figures stationed on a circular base. One figure is hinged using a cord that passes through the base and can be pulled or retracted to allow the figure to collapse and spring upright. The second figure has a spring operated arm to strike and knock down the first figure.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Fermier, Victor E.
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