Timothy Tuttle's Visit to the World's Fair game
Timothy Tuttle's Visit to the World's Fair game
- Description (Brief)
- This reading game was made to coincide with the World’s Columbian Exposition, a world’s fair that opened in Chicago in 1893. Commonly known as the “White City,” the fair was essential in establishing Chicago’s image as an economic and cultural force. An enormous success, the exposition hosted 27 million visitors in its five-month run.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Game, Timothy Tuttle's Visit...
- Date made
- 1893
- maker
- Milton Bradley Company
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Springfield
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 1.27 cm
- ID Number
- 1989.0438.0791
- catalog number
- 1989.0438.0791
- accession number
- 1989.0438
- catalog number
- 1893TY04
- Credit Line
- The Larry Zim World's Fair Collection
- subject
- Expositions and Fairs
- World's Columbian Exposition
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- Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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