Artist: Milton Bradley Company
Date: 1955
Museum: The Strong National Museum of Play (Rochester, United States)
Technique: Board
Recovering from Polio, Eleanor Abbott invented the game Candy Land in 1945. She envisioned the game for polio-stricken children to play as they recovered. Some historians believe that she also intended the game for healthy children, to keep them occupied indoors and thus safer from the Polio disease. The game required no reading or mathematical skills so the youngest children could play it. They drew a color card and advanced to that color square on the board. Milton Bradley purchased the rights to publish the game in 1949. The first printed edition of the game
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