THE GAME OF BASKET BALL

cover

New-York Historical Society

© 1898 Chaffee & Selchow

McLoughlin Bros. (on cover)

New York

(no catalog number shown on game)

[none]

Copyright: Chaffee & Selchow (on cover)

«THE GAME
OF BASKET BALL»

PUBLISHED BY
McLOUGHLIN BROS.
NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT 1989 BY CHAFFEE & SELCHOW, NEW YORK

board game; cover: women playing basketball

basketball, women

under box lid

THE YOUNGSTER'S GAME OF BASKET BALL
FOR TWO PLAYERS

cardboard box with wood

22 inches wide — 12 ⅞ inches high — 1 ¼ inches deep

55.9 cm wide — 40.3 cm high — 7 cm deep

The top label has a light tan background with no borders or outlines.

"THE GAME" (red, darker at top than at bottom of each letter, medium tan outine) appears at upper left; "OF" (same appearance) is shown below the "E". To the right, "BASKET BALL" (dull green at bottom and golden with golden dots at the top insides of each letter, thin black outline then medium tan then think black outline, then a yellow shadow down and to the right) appears, with some of the letters below the horizontal baseline.

A monochrome basketball hoop (thin black mesh lines with the light tan background) appears at upper right below "THE G". It is attached to a wall that appears to be made of large rctangular stones at right; another such wall appears in the rear. The floor shows a faint pattern of wooden boards.

Ten young women are playing on the basketball court. At left, a woman (blue dress with white stripes around neck, sleeves, and bottom of dress) is shooting a basketball at the hoop. The other 9 young women are shown with their arms and legs moving: two are wearing blue dresses, 3 green, 2 red, 1 tan, and 1 white.

An additional woman appears just right of center (same blue dress) standing with both arms on her hips.

New-York Historical Society ⇱ — 2000.332 ⇱

New-York Historical Society

Margaret K. Hofer, The Games We Played - The Golden Age of Board and Table Games

© 2003

page 111

Princeton Architectural Press, New York

GV1317.H64. 2003

ISBN 1-56898-397-2.