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White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves.Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

This is a diagram of a chess-board, the sort one finds printed in newspapers as puzzles, with a summary of the “game” that also serves as a table of contents for the book. I will add the table of cont [...]

Keywords: games, chess, puzzles, diagrams, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-19

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The Red Queen and the Red KingThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

‘Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,’ Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), ‘and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel – and here are t [...]

Keywords: people, chess, alice, games, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-05

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150.—Horce racing.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Two badly-drawn horses are neck-and-neck at the finish line in a horse-race, their jockeys brandishing whips.

Keywords: horses, sport, games, racing, whips, greyscale

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Added: 2012-05-13

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Alice holds the White KingThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice watched the White King as he slowly struggled up from bar to bar, till at last she said, ‘Why, you’ll be hours and hours getting to the table, at that rate. I’d far better help you, hadn’t I?’ B [...]

Keywords: alice, chess, games, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-15

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Page 1: The Enchanted Case and The Magic Box.Conjuring Tricks (1890)

The magic box had a (moderately) tightly-fitting inner compartment, so that you could open the outer drawer but leave the inner compartment inside. This construction was a common theme for many of the [...]

Keywords: page images, colour, games, diagrams, hands, magic

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Added: 2010-06-03

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The White Knight is Sliding Down the PokerThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which ca [...]

Keywords: alice, chess, games, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-06-14

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In the Land of CounterpaneA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A boy lies ill in bed in this vintage watercolour painting; he has wooden toy soldiers arranged on the bed-covers. The Land of Counterpane When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillos at my head, [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, toys, games, sickness, beds, play, art, colour

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Added: 2013-02-02

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Page 2: The Marvelous Pedestal and The Wonderful Egg Trick.Conjuring Tricks (1890)

The wonderful egg coud be opened in two places; the “egg” was of wood, and hollow, so that you could open the container below it.

Keywords: page images, games, diagrams, magic, colour

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Added: 2010-06-03

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The Young General [George Washington]The American Boy’s Life of Washington (1870)

George Washington, as a boy, stands with a short toy sword and marshalls four other boys into a line as they pretend to be soldiers. It was not to be wondered at that George, who had entered with grea [...]

Keywords: children, games, weapons, george washington, peoplechildren, illustrations for children, costume, greyscale

Places shown: Virginia; USA

Added: 2011-02-15

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The Red Queen chastises AliceThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“Where do you come from?” said the Red Queen. “And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don’t twiddle your fingers all the time.” Alice attended to all these directions, and explained, as w [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, chess, games, greyscale

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Added: 2007-07-27

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A Great Huge Game of ChessThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country—and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it f [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, games, chess, trees, greyscale

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Added: 2007-10-01

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Page 3: The Famous Card Trick, The Ball Trick and The String Trick.Conjuring Tricks (1890)

I don’t think I ever saw the cards, and I don’t think I ever understood the string trick, although I di have the parts.

Keywords: page images, games, diagrams, hands, magic, colour

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Lady and Youth Playing Draughts,A Short History of the English People (1902)

A lady and a young man playing “draughts” from an early fourteenth century manuscript (MS. Roy. 2 B. vii). It appears that two of the pieces differ from the others, leading me to suspect that this is [...]

Keywords: games, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, christmas, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-31

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Page 4: The Bead Trick and The Magic Seed Barrel.Conjuring Tricks (1890)

I have no clue what the bead trick was. The seed barrel was another one ofthese hidden compartment tricks.

Keywords: page images, games, magic, colour

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.Conjuring Tricks (1890)

I don’t remember the Changing Card; I think I saw the Heart Trick and didn’t understand it at all.

Keywords: page images, games, diagrams, magic, colour

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Added: 2010-06-03

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53.3.—ClubsOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This symbol is part-way between a clover-leaf, a Lutheran Cross and they sign for the playing-card suit of clubs, which in turn derives from the alchemical symbol for wood. This image is taken from pl [...]

Keywords: symbols, crosses, playing cards, games, greyscale

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Added: 2005-11-02

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Page 5: The Wonderful Box TrickConjuring Tricks (1890)

Again there is an inner compartment, in this case one that slides so it can be under one or other door (or partway inbetween if you didn’t practise enough).

Keywords: page images, games, magic, diagrams, colour

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Page 6: The Vanishing Cup; The Mysterious Dice.Conjuring Tricks (1890)

The vanishing-cup makes a coin seem to vanish: it looks like the coin sits on a solid block covered by the cup, but in fact the cup holds a second slightly larger solid block that covers the first, so [...]

Keywords: page images, games, dice, magic, diagrams, hands, colour

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Added: 2010-06-03

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787.—Bob Apple.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Bob-apple is a game in which an apple is hung by a string from the ceiling or other high piece, or put into a a bowl of water, and people have to eat it or pick it out of the bowl, allw ithout using t [...]

Keywords: people, games, christmas, xmas, greyscale

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Added: 2010-10-10

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794.—Bowling.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

We have traces that the Norman-English delighted sometimes in sports more innocent [than bear-playing and cock-fighting]; we can fancy them sitting absorbed in the intellectual game of chess (Figs. 79 [...]

Keywords: games, people, bowling, greyscale

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Added: 2010-05-03

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