Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Hand-cut paper toy printed with an illustration of the Deadwood stagecoach, 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 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.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- McLoughlin Bros., Inc.
- date made
- ca 1890
- 1884
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- glue (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 29.21 cm
- Object Name
- die cut figure
