Monopoly Ivory Poster

One night in late 1932, a Philadelphia businessman named Charles Todd and his wife, Olive, introduced their friends, Charles and Esther Darrow, to a real estate board game they had recently learned. As the two couples sat around the board, excitedly rolling dice, buying properties, and moving their tokens around, the Todds were pleased to note that the Darrows loved the game. In fact, they were so impressed that Charles Todd made them their own set and began teaching them some of the more advanced rules. The game had no official name: it wasn't sold in a box, it passed from friend to friend. But everyone called it 'monopoly game'.

They played it many times with other friends. One day, despite his exposure to the game, Darrow, who was unemployed and needed money to support his family, asked Charles Todd for a written copy of the rules. Todd was a bit surprised, as he had never written them down. Nor did it appear that written rules existed anywhere else.

In fact, the rules of the game had been invented in 1903 in Washington D.C. by a brave, progressive woman named Elizabeth Magie. But the game's place in public history was lost for decades and transferred to the man who got it from his friend's house: Charles Darrow. Today, Magie's story can finally be told.

For Elizabeth Magie, known to her friends as Lizzie, the problems of the new century were so great, income inequalities so vast, and monopolists so powerful, that it seemed impossible for an unknown woman working as a stenographer to have any chance of alleviating society's ills with something as trivial as a board game. But she had to try. Every night, after finishing her work at the office, Lizzie sat at home, drawing and redrawing, thinking and rethinking. It was the early 1900s, and she wanted the board game to reflect her progressive political views - that was the whole point. There was only one obvious outlet. At the turn of the 20th century, board games were becoming increasingly common in middle-class homes. Also, more and more inventors were discovering that games were not just entertainment, but also a means of communication. And so Lizzie got to work.

Endless thanks to Lizzie, the unknown creator of Monopoly, still one of the most popular board games today.

This frame has soft lines, is tested and approved for children's rooms, and is available in many sizes. The plastic front protection is safe and gives the print a good look.

Features

You can easily hang the frame with nails or screws and decorate your walls with pictures.

Can be hung horizontally or vertically to fit the available space.

Plastic front protection makes the frame safer to use.

What's in the box?

1 frame with print

Frame: Fiberboard, Paper foil

Front protection: Polystyrene

Print: Ultra Premium Photo Paper

Packaging

The painting is carefully wrapped with air bubble wrap. It is elegantly covered with wrapping paper and tied with jute twine. After stylish and gift-ready packaging, it is ready to be shipped in a shipping bag.