Lois Boger Pike notebook
Scope and Content Note
This notebook, inscribed “Games Contests Entertainments,” contains word games, descriptions of activities, and party ideas handwritten by Lois Boger Pike, circa 1920. Most of the items are riddles, puns, and other word games, with answers included. The notebook details wording for invitations, designs for place cards, rhymes for fortunes, and ideas for decorations and favors for parties to celebrate Valentine’s Day, Washington’s Birthday, April Fool’s Day, Easter, and Halloween.
Notebook entries are written in ink on lined pages. Binding is paper.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1920
Creator
- Pike, Lois Boger (Person)
Extent
1.0 Volumes (Housed with Individual Manuscripts, Box 1)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This handwritten notebook, inscribed "Games Contests Entertainments," is filled with a selection of games, puzzles, riddles, and theme party ideas.
- Title
- Guide to the Lois Boger Pike Notebook, circa 1920 —
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play at The Strong Repository
The Strong
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Rochester NY 14607 USA
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