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Post Office Game

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    An early Parker Brothers game from 1898. Post Office Game revolves around the dense cityscape and urban hustle and bustle of lower Manhattan at or near the turn of the century. Players travel along a game board from streets on Manhattan's Southern tip ( South Ferry, Aquarium, Wall Street and the Wall Street Ferry all the way North to 23rd Street). Places to visit include American Line Terminal, Fall River Line, The Tombs, Brooklyn Bridge, the Post Office & Bowling Green.
    Famous New York Streets from the time are used to move about; Broadway, West Broadway, Fulton, Pearl, Canal, East Houston, The Bowery, Division and Furman Streets.
    Delivering mail to particular places in the city was the goal of the game. First person to complete their assigned deliveries won the game.

    Description from New York Historical Society Catalogue:
    ""Post Office Game" board game with six paper letters, two dice cups and board applied to the top of the bottom half of a paper covered wood and cardboard box; cardboard box top nailed to the wooden aprons with metal reinforcements at the corners; board is a lithographed map of lower Manhattan with the streets and major sites labeled, including the Brooklyn Bridge, Soth Ferry, Washington Square, etc.; cardboard drawer holds the playing cards and die cups; box cover lithographed with a mailman delivering letters to a woman and a medallion image of a U.S. Post Office; Board inscribed, "THE POST OFFICE/ Game/ PARKER BROTHERS/ SALEM MASS/ U S A/ COPYRIGHT/ 1897/ By Parker Brothers"; directions printed on the underside of the box cover."

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