1900 Board Game With Map of World and Views of Important Cities
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Description: An unusual c. 1900 Parker Brothers board game with an 'around the world' theme. Players start in New York and work their way to London Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Rome, Naples, Constantinople, Cairo, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta Melbourne, Sidney, Hong Kong, Japan, Tacoma, San Francisco St. Louis Chicago, Washington and Boston, among others, before returning to New York. Important destinations are identified with photographic images. The whole is a combination of chromolithograph and photographic printing techniques. Undated and untitled.
Date: 1900 (undated)
Size: Printed area measures 22.5 x 16 inches (57.15 x 40.64 centimeters)
Condition: Very good. Professionally restored. Image exhibits some scan distoration not present on actual gameboard.
Code: TravelBoardGame-unk-1900 (to order by phone call: 646-320-8650)



