Title: Double game board: Lincoln Highway and Checkers

Barcode: 37042

Image Number: 37042

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/37042.0001

Date/Date Range: 1926

Language: English

Type: Games

Dimensions: in case 23 x 34 x 4 cm

Notes: Title from lid; copyright date from playing guide (board has copyright date 1925). In two-piece box; lid with title and chromolithographic illustrations. Playing guide has title: "Directions for playing the game of Lincoln Highway, An Automobile Tour Game Covering the Great Highways of the United States--compiled by the National Highways Association and adopted by the Automobile Club of America."Playing guide: "The game is supplied with a folding game board on one side of which is the 'Lincoln Highway map routes' and on the other a checker board."The map side of the board depicts the "actual national automobile touring transcontinental highways as compiled by the National Highways Association and adopted by the Automobile Club of America": Trans-Canada Highway, Theo. Roosevelt International Highway, National Park to Park Highway, Yellowstone Trail, Lincoln Highway, Lee Highway, National Old Trails Road, Bankhead Highway, National Roosevelt Midland Trail, Dixie Overland Highway, Old Spanish Trail, Glacier Trail, and Dixie Highway.

Physical Description: 1 game (1 board, 1 dice cup, 2 dice, 6 pins, 26 cards, 24 checker men), color map; 1 playing guide

Accession Number: OS-1926-57

Donor: Osher