Buffalo Bill's Wild West cowboy paper toy
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Hand-cut paper toy printed with an illustration of a cowboy on horseback firing a revolver, 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 Deadwood 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.
topic: label: Subject
content: West
label: Subject
content: Wild West Shows
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0071.07
label: accession number
content: 2012.0071
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0071.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: paper toy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glue (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 4 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 11.43 cm