Collection Highlights
A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...
Date:
1697
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Benjamin.Bullivant
Medium:
Pen and ink on paper
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Round the World
Object Number:
2000.451
Date:
1873
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. ( 47 x 47 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: in the corner of the board: "ROUND THE WORLD/ PUBLISHED/ BY/ M. BRADLEY & Co./ SPRINGFIELD/ MASS/ Entered accord to Act of Congress in the year 1873 by Milton Bradley & Co.in the Ofiice of Library of Congress at Washington"
printed: on the
Description:
"Round the World" board game with five cardboard and metal spinners, four with two arrows, one with a single arrow, a cardboard and wood teetotem and four cardboard playing pieces with metal edges and bi-fold paper covered game board lithographed with a spiral path with 93 steps, each step has an image of a three masted sail boat or a seascape leading to a cental image of New York Harbor and lower Manhattan; dock scene depicted in one corner, cornucopias in two others and the inscription, "ROUND THE WORLD/ PUBLISHED/ BY/ M. BRADLEY & Co./ SPRINGFIELD/ MASS" in the fourth; reverse of the board printed, "ROUND/ THE/ WORLD."; playing pieces in a separate box inscribed, "THE GAME OF/ ROUND/ THE/ WORLD/ MILTON BRADLEY & Co. SPRINGFIELD, MASS".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
