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With the holiday season upon us, many holiday plans include breaking out board games to bring people together for some friendly competition. In 2012, we presented an exhibition called, “Let’s Play! 100 Years of Board Games”. One memorable board game was The Game of the Telegraph Boy: produced in 1888, the goal was to attain rags-to-riches success, rising from the job of a telegraph boy to company president. Do your holiday plans including bonding over board games? Game of the Telegraph Boy 1888 McLoughlin Brothers New York, New York Collection of David Galt, New York, New York L2012.1501.024
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