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Annual of Home Amusements and Social Sports

A selection of listings from our Annual of Home Amusements and Social Sports, named after Milton Bradley’s earliest catalogs and full of instructive, amusing, educational, beautiful, and confounding things. We’ve stumbled down a few rabbit holes with this year’s finds, several of which are unrecorded, unattributed, and/or plucked from a time when game was a dirty word and cards a sure sign of moral blight. You can view the PDF catalog here, or browse the listings below (with some extra items from the Fun & Games Dept).

Home Games and How to Play Them

Home Games and How to Play Them

Fireside Game Company
Game of Nationalities No. 1116

Game of Nationalities No. 1116

[educational games]
Weaving and Paper Plaiting: Spear's Kindergarten Series

Weaving and Paper Plaiting: Spear's Kindergarten Series

[kindergarten material]
Grandma's Arithmetical Game (4929)

Grandma's Arithmetical Game (4929)

Milton Bradley Company
Improved Geographical Cards

Improved Geographical Cards

[educational games] J. W. Freeman
Reardon's ABC cards

Reardon's ABC cards

[learning aids, design]
Louisa's Tenderness to the Little Birds, in Winter.

Louisa's Tenderness to the Little Birds, in Winter.

[juvenile, chapbooks]
Magic Slate Blackboard

Magic Slate Blackboard

[educational toys]
Election Game

Election Game

[board game maps] (Oscar Von Hunersdorff)
Palmistry

Palmistry

(Milton Bradley Co.)
Single school slate tablet

Single school slate tablet

[objects]
Book safe from 1738 'Histoire du peuple de Dieu'

Book safe from 1738 'Histoire du peuple de Dieu'

[object]
Home Pastimes; or Agreeable Exercises for the Mind, consisting of Enigmas, Charades Conundrums, etc

Home Pastimes; or Agreeable Exercises for the Mind, consisting of Enigmas, Charades Conundrums, etc

[games]
Game of the Golden Egg

Game of the Golden Egg

[color lithography, home amusements]
Lex-O-Gram

Lex-O-Gram

[educational games]
The Little Designer (4539)

The Little Designer (4539)

Milton Bradley Co.
Home History Game for Boys and Girls (4273)

Home History Game for Boys and Girls (4273)

Milton Bradley Co.
Better Speech Game [with] Practical Grammar Game

Better Speech Game [with] Practical Grammar Game

[educational games] Eleanor Jones Young
Six alphabet lacing cards

Six alphabet lacing cards

[ephemera, occupations]
Six pictorial lacing cards

Six pictorial lacing cards

[ephemera, occupations]
ABC color lithograph slips Deconstructed from "The Merry and Wise ABC"

ABC color lithograph slips Deconstructed from "The Merry and Wise ABC"

[color lithography, alphabets]