Museum Collections

"The Game of Playing Department Store" board game with fifty-two circular counters yellow on one side and black on the other and forty-two round cards representing money with denominations between ten cents and five dollars stored under a flap on the right side of the paper covered cardboard game board; board applied to the top of the bottom half of the paper covered cardboard and wood box; board chromolithographed with fourteen store departments divided as triangles around a star in the center meant to hold an indicator, each department, including China, Grocery, Toys, candy, etc., has examples of the goods they sell and their prices; box cover chromolithographed with nine children playing department store, with used boots, fabric and jars of food set up on crates and a barrel; box cover lithographed, "THE GAME OF/ PLAYING/ DEPARTMENT/ STORE/ COPYRIGHT 1898 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS.,/ NEW YORK"; instructions printed on the underside of the box cover.