MILTON BRADLEY
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1920 By that year, Milton Bradley Company had five manufacturing sites in Springfield. But without the Milton inventing new games and with the aging of their factories, the company declined throughout the 1920s, the 1930s, and into the 1940s.
1879 George Tapley bought the interest of the lost investors and took over as president of the Milton Bradley
1861
Company, leaving Bradley free to develop his designs
Bradley became convinced
for both games and the
board games were his
kindergarten movement.
company's future, with the
The Early
1900s
success of inventing and
Milton’s educational supplies were
selling "The Checkered
spreading across the United States.
Game of Life."
Milton Bradley continued producing games, particularly parlor games played by adults.
1870 With the recession, his investors told him either his kindergarten work must go or they would go. Bradley chose to continue
1860
producing educational materials.
Milton Bradley moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, and set up the state’s first color lithography shop.
1869 Bradley became involved in the Kindergarten movement with the production of “gifts”.