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Sources & method

All object writing is original synthesis. Dates are intentionally approximate room snapshots, not claims that an object was invented in that exact year. Adoption varied by place, income, climate, infrastructure, disability, household form, and region. The game avoids presenting a single household as universal history.

Fiction boundary: Rowan House, its unnamed occupants, and every household scene are original composite fiction created to connect the object histories. They are always labelled as fiction in play and are not evidence about a real family.

• Smithsonian National Museum of American History: Home and Community Life
• Science Museum Group Collection
• Victoria and Albert Museum Collections
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• The Postal Museum: The Penny Black

No museum image, catalogue description, object scan, competitor level, or third-party visual identity is bundled in the game. Visual cards, marks, narrative, and interfaces are original.