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Lesson 13 Document 12

TITLE:  Round the world with Nellie Bly--The Worlds globe circler
CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in Newspaper Microfilm 1363 [Newspaper & Current Periodical RR]
Microfilm served in lieu of original when available.
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-02918 (scan from b&w copy photo in Publishing Office)
No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY:  Board game about journalist Nellie Bly's trip around the world in 1889-1890. Game shows squares for each of the 73 days of her journey arranged in a circular pattern, flanked with images of Bly, Jules Verne, a steam ship and a train.
MEDIUM:  1 print.
CREATED/PUBLISHED:  1890 Jan. 26.
NOTES: Illus. in: The New York world. New York, N.Y. : New York World, 1890 Jan. 26, p. 21.  Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. [40].

SUBJECTS: Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922--Journeys.
Journalists--1880-1890.
Women--Employment--1880-1890.
Voyages around the world--1880-1890.
 

FORMAT: Board games 1890.
Periodical illustrations 1890.
Prints 1890.
 

 

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