McLoughlin Brothers

McLoughlin Brothers
Company typeDivision (1920–1951)
Industry
Founded1858; 166 years ago (1858)
Founder
  • John McLoughlin, Jr.
  • Edmund McLoughlin
Defunct1951 (1951)
FateAcquired by Milton Bradley in 1920, became a division of it.
Successor
Headquarters,
US
Products
Number of employees
75 (1870s [1])
ParentMilton Bradley (1920–1951)

McLoughlin Bros., Inc. was a New York manufacturing company active between 1858[2] and 1920. As a publisher itself, the company was a pioneer in color printing technologies in children's books.[3] The company specialized in retellings or bowdlerizations of classic stories for children.

McLoughlin Bros. also produced board games, puzzles, and paper toys.[1]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference aas was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Frontispiece, such as it is, of The Easy To Read Story Book
  3. ^ Wasowicz, Laura."Brief History of the McLoughlin Brothers". American Antiquarian Society, 2003.