Back to School: This object focuses on geography and the history of the presidency of the United States. William Langdon’s mid-19th-century card game contains 40 cards – 1 explanatory card, 11 featuring Presidents, and 28 describing the states of the Union. The object of the game was to collect all cards by correctly stating facts related to the cards that were not in the player’s hand.
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Illinois
Notes:
Card game for learning United States history, consisting of 11 president cards and 28 state cards, printed with facts about the subject.
"The cards being shuffled and dealt, the leader calls for any card not in his own hand; and is entitled to it on being able to answer such questions as the holder may ask concerning the President or State called for. If he answers two thirds, he may call again, but not receive that card. The object is, for one person to get all."-instructions.
Notes (exhibitions):
Exhibited: "Back to School: Geography in the Classroom" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2014-2015.