The Parking Game Printer's Block

Scope and content:

The Parking Game Printer's Block. Wood and metal printer's block with the words "The Parking Game" across the top and a series of images depicting a woman parking in a "2 hr parking" spot, having her car marked by a parking official, and returning two hours later to remove the mark on her tire and says "Safe for two more hours". ". "The Virginia Gazette" is in small type in the bottom corner of the plate, and the illegible artist's name is in the bottom left corner of the plate. Block measures .875 in. (height) x 3.875 in. (width) x 5 in. (length). The block is in good condition with mild accumulation of detritus in the grooves of the metal plate and mild black stains on the wooden block. Transferred from Box 1 of the Wilford Kale Papers (Mss.2008.103). Mss2008.103.05

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College of William and Mary
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College of William and Mary
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