Game, YOGO, Once Owned by Olive C. Hazlett
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950-1960
name: label: maker
content: Plas-Trix Company
notes: label: Description
content: This solitaire game consists of a round transparent plastic case holding a white plastic pegboard and thirty-three red plastic pegs. The thirty-three holes in the board are arranged as in English peg solitare. Instructions are in the case, visible through the bottom.
label: Description
content: A mark on the lid of the case reads: "YOGO" (/) JUMP-a-PEG (/) PUZZLE. Another mark on the lid reads: BROOKLYN NY (/) PLAS-TRIX.
label: Description
content: The mathematician Olive C. Hazlett once owned this game.
label: Description
content: For an account of a similar object, see The Jerry Slocum Mechanical Puzzle Collection, Lilly Library, Indiana University, object 11226.
label: Description
content: According to advertisements and articles in the <I>New York Times</I>, Plas-Trix Company was in business in Brooklyn by 1950 and went bankrupt in 1960.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: John D. Beasley, <I>The Ins and Outs of Peg Solitaire</I>, Oxford: Oxford University Press,1985.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Women Mathematicians
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hermitage of St. Joseph
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0027.15
label: accession number
content: 2015.0027
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0027.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: game
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case, pegboard, pegs material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (instructions material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 9 cm x 9.6 cm; 31/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 25/32 in