Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Hand-cut paper toy printed with an illustration of bull running, part of a child's play set of chromolithograph cutout toys representing characters from the Buffalo Bill Wild West show. Figures in the 41-piece set include William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, trick riders, American Indian performers, steer, buffaloes, bulls, horses, and the Deadwood stagecoach. Produced on a set of sheets by McLoughlin Brothers, publishers of children’s books and board games, the cards were cut out and mounted on wooden bases. They could be arranged to re-create two well-known acts from Cody’s enormously popular production. One group of figures enacts “The Capture of the Deadwood Mail,” a gunfight over a stagecoach between mounted Native Americans and cowboys. The other group displays the show’s buffalo hunt.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2012.0071.38
- accession number
- 2012.0071
- catalog number
- 2012.0071.38
- Object Name
- paper toy
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 4 in; 7.62 cm x 10.16 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- West
- Wild West Shows
- Record ID
- nmah_1419482
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-9281-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
