Drawing room games
A late nineteenth-century American games and sports manual published in New York in 1897 by the American Sports Publishing Company, compiled by Alice Howard Cady for home and parlour use. The pictures are plain black-and-white wood engravings of gymnastic apparatus, a hook-and-weight fitting and a men's bicycle saddle, showing hanging rings, trapeze bars and pulley frames with clear, labelled outlines a designer could use for vintage sporting equipment motifs.
