John S. Minton punchboard collection
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Punchboards; also a small amount of manuscript material such as manufacturers' catalogs, manufacturers' trade cards, direct mail advertising, fliers, photographs, and collector's correspondence. The punchboards vary in size, type, and theme; approximately 700 are standard punchboards used as gambling devices or games of chance and in later years are marked "for amusement only"; the balance of the collection consists of ticket spindles, pushcards, pulltabs, ticket games, jar games, display boards, magnetic roulette, turkey boards, and coin operated or slot machine games of chance.
Prizes range from 5 cents to one hundred dollars, and also include items such as candy, toys, harmonicas, coins, and watches. The collection includes approximately one hundred headers, or graphic material affiliated with punchboards but lacking the grid of holes. The punchboards are highly graphic; predominant themes include women, sports, the military, cigarettes, gambling, and animals.
Dates
- [ca. 1910-1986].
Creator
- Minton, John S. (Collector, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Punchboards are self-contained games of chance consisting of pressed paper boards containing coded tickets denoting the value of prizes won.
Extent
1014 items. (1014 items.)
Abstract
Punchboards; also a small amount of manuscript material such as manufacturers' catalogs, manufacturers' trade cards, direct mail advertising, fliers, photographs, and collector's correspondence.
Physical Description
Memorabilia, Printed Materials
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Jessica M. Flintoft
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, August 2007
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Jessica M. Flintoft
- Date
- August 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu