Label:
This chess board was made by a patient at the Gabriels Sanitorium in the 1920s. Using a cauterising tool, the unidentified maker burned in the facade of a building with the names of players inducted into the Rest-a-While Cottage "Hall of Chess Fame" in 1925 and 1926.
Board and card games were popular with tuberculosis patients under doctors' orders to restrict their physical activity.
Board and card games were popular with tuberculosis patients under doctors' orders to restrict their physical activity.
Date:
1925 ca
Object Name:
Chess
Catalog #:
2013.004.0001
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