This circa 1905
Milton Bradley Play Village is smaller than the OTHER PLAY VILLAGE in the archive. The
MAT above just has room for the 5 buildings that
came in the set, and in this version, unlike the other, labels on the
MAT let a child know exactly where to put each building.
The shops, fire house and post office clearly add up to a typical American
village, but given the relative size and positions of the home where the white
family lives and "Uncle Tom's Cabin," it is only a slight overstatement to say
that as turn-of-the-century children played with this toy, they were
also recreating the ante bellum plantation, with its "big house" and
"quarters."
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