Build Your Own World's Fair Board Game
date: label: Date made
content: 1939 - 1940
notes: label: Description
content: “Build-Your-Own New York World’s Fair” commemorates the New York World's Fair held in Queens 1939-1940. The game includes a paper playing surface, four jumbo crayons, six priscilla crayons, eleven cardboard cut-out buildings, four cardboard cut-out sculptures, one cardboard cut-out fountain, two cardboard cut-out potted shrubs, one cardboard cut-out family, one instruction sheet, and twenty-seven wooden stands for cut-outs. The cut-outs, which feature depictions of fair buildings, including Administration, Communications, and Temple of Religion to name a few, were intended to be colored with the provided crayons.
label: Description
content: This game was produced by Standard Toykraft Products Inc., which existed from 1933 to 1979; previously, the company was named Standard Solophone Mfg. Co. (1924-1933) and then changed to Avalon Industries (1977-1992). The name “Standard Toykraft Products Inc.” was used for three years before its decommission in 1979. In 1992, Avalon Industries was bought by RoseArt.
label: Description
content: From Standard Toykraft Products Inc. on, the variations of the company were known for their crayon products.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Queens
topic: label: Subject
content: Expositions and Fairs
label: Subject
content: Games
label: related event
content: New York World's Fair (1939)
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair 1939-1940
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0542.1461
label: accession number
content: 1990.0542
label: accession number
content: 1990.0542
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Board game
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (stands material)
label: Physical Description
content: wax (crayons material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 7/8 in x 10 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 45.4025 cm x 26.67 cm x 3.81 cm