Dobjects Details Document
- Title
- Document - Graham Broom, to Dorothy Howard, List of Games, 1955
- Description
Game names (and types): 'Cowboys and Indians', 'Cops and Robbers', 'Nut Fights', 'Tortures', 'Tanks', 'Jungle', 'Spears', 'Secret Agent', 'Planes', 'Making Planes', 'Building Transport', 'Speedway', 'Forts' (dramatic play), 'Marbles' (marbles), 'Monopoly', 'Drafts', 'Snakes and Ladders' (board games), 'Throughing' [Throwing], 'Boxing' (physical play), 'Pussy in a Corner' (ball games), 'Skippy' (skipping games), 'Wars' (card game), 'Small Toys', 'Skip Jack', 'Boats', 'Horses', 'Yachts', 'Desert Legent' [sic] (unknown types) Alternative types: war games, imitation games, play with props/equipment Handwritten list of games compiled for Dr Dorothy Howard by Graham Broom, presumably a student at Collier Primary School, in 1955. One of a collection of letters describing a children's games written to children's Folklorist Dorothy Howard between 1954 and 1955. Dr Howard came to Australia in 1954-55 as an American Fulbright scholar to study Australian children's folklore. She travelled across Australia for 10 months collecting children's playground rhymes, games, play artefacts, etc. This letter, together with the other original fieldwork collected by Dr Howard during this period, is preserved in the Dorothy Howard Collection manuscript files, part of the Australian Children's Folklore Collection (ACFC), Archive Series 3. The ACFC is an extensive collection documenting children's folklore and related research.
- Physical description
Handwritten list of games in pencil on lined paper. Several words has been underlined in blue pencil. Text printed on one side only.
- Control
- HT 41147
Related Entries
See also
- Archive - ACFC Series 3, Dorothy Howard Collection, Manuscript Files, 1954-1955 (GAMES & TOYS)
- Broom, Graham
- Collier Government Primary School
- Howard, Dorothy
- Howard, Dorothy
Created: 3 September 2015