Collection Highlights
The Game of Playing Department Store
1898
2000.715
Cardboard, wood, paper
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Museum Collections
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
Round the World with Nellie Bly
Title
Round the World with Nellie Bly
Date
ca. 1890
Medium
Cardboard, metal, paper
Dimensions
box: 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. ( 1.3 x 22.2 x 41.9 cm )
Description
Board game with box, gameboard, instruction booklet, and spinner; on cover of cardboard box, lithographed illustration of woman (Nellie Bly) in brown and blue checked traveling suit with brown hair tucked under blue cap with carpetbag (or portmanteau) standing on path in front of landscape including snow-capped mountains, body of water, and telegraph poles; on board, spaces arranged in a spiral, marked with each day and various instructions, with central circle depicting Manhattan Island; illustration of Nellie Bly at top left corner and Jules Verne at top right corner; square cardboard spinner in various colors with metal arrow to be spun, marked with numbers.
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
1992.12.17
Marks
printed: on cover of box: "ROUND THE/WORLD/With/NELLIE BLY./A NOVEL AND FASCINATING GAME WITH PLENTY/OF EXCITEMENT ON LAND AND SEA."
printed: on cover of box: "MCLOUGHLIN BROS. NEW YORK."
printed: on cover of box: "COPYRIGHT 1890 BY J.A. CROZIER."
printed: on cover of box: "COPYRIGHT 1890 BY H.J. MAYERS."
printed: on cover of instruction booklet: "Directions/HOW TO PLAY/THE/New and Amusing/Game./Around the World/WITH/Nellie Bly/
Gallery Label
This game is based on the adventures of Nellie Bly, the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane, an American journalist who travelled around the world in an attempt to break the record created by the fictional Phineas Fogg in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eight Days." The New York "World" thought up the enterprise and kept its readers informed with daily articles on her adventure. She sailed from New York on November 14, 1889 and completed her journey in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
