Patented January 5, 1904, this is the printed patent drawing for a game board invented by Lizzie J. Magie, a variation of which would later become the board game “Monopoly.”
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This sort of thing is exactly why I created this tumblr. Lizzie made this boardgame to show the inequalities in the...
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