Games Collection (page 87)

Giant Snowball
Many a little makes a mickle Two children roll a giant snowball

Merry Go Round on Ice
A merry-go-round on the ice - towing children on toboggans. Date: 1890

Sliding in a Street
Swedish children tobogganing

Game / Forfeits 1828
Forfeits played at an evening party

Snowball Fight
A girl on a huge snowball defends it against two boys

Bismarck Snowballer
Boys enjoy a snowball fight. One ten-year old will later wage war on a larger scale - Otto von Bismarck

Blind Mans Buff
Courting couples use a game of Blind Mans Buff as an excuse to canoodle in corners of the room, leaving a rotund man with a red face playing alone with an enthusiastic child!

C17th Billiards Game
Duchesse de Bourgogne playing billiards

50 Chess Games at Once
Playing fifty games of chess simultaneously. Bogoljubow wins forty games, loses two and draws eight to Aljechin at Monaco

Little girl in green skipping with a rope
A little girl dressed entirely in green, skipping with a rope

Game of Blind Mans Buff at a childrens party
A game of Blind Mans Buff (or Bluff) at a childrens party in the early 19th century

Chariot race accident
Chariot racing in the Circus at Rome -- one of the chariots overturns on the bend, causing an obstruction for the chariot behind

Ancient Roman athletes playing handball

Five ladies playing hide and seek in a garden
Five elegant ladies playing hide and seek in a garden. Two of them are hiding behind a wall

Kempelins Automaton Chess Player
Wolfgang von Kempelins Automaton Chess Player. It was created in Germany, was widely exhibited, and eventually reappeared in New York in 1845

Two Dutch children with two snowmen
Two Dutch children, two Dutch snowmen, and a Christmas greeting in Dutch

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