Post Office Game

ca. 1897

Place madeSalem, Massachusetts, United States, North America

Cardboard, paper

Open: 16 1/4 x 26 1/4 in. (41.3 x 66.7 cm)

The Liman Collection

1992.12.16

The Post Office Game conveys the dense cityscape and urban bustle of lower Manhattan, with players traveling along a gameboard reproducing the city's streets from the island's southern tip to 23rd Street.

DescriptionCardboard gameboard (folded in two) with outside covered in pink and cream colored paper with floral and paisley pattern; on playing surface, map of lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn docks, extending from South Ferry to 23rd Street, from 6th Avenue to 1st Avenue; bird's eye view of buildings, ships, parks, etc.; playing spaces marked by circles along streets, with street names and places such as the aquarium, Fulton St. Ferry, subtreasury, and the 5th Ave. Hotel marked inside; lithographed on board, lower left corner: "PATENT APPLIED FOR. COPYRIGHT 1897 BY PARKER BROS., SALEM, MASS., U.S.A.";
lithographed on board: "POST OFFICE/GAME".

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