Buffalo Bill's Wild West bison paper toy
date: label: date made
content: c1890
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Hand-cut paper toy printed with an illustration of bison running, 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Entertainment, general
label: Subject
content: Wild West Shows
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0071.30
label: accession number
content: 2012.0071
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0071.30
objectType: label: Object Name
content: die cut figure
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 4 in; 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm