americana
Native American Warriors
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by Simon Wintle
Native American Warriors from the Wild West Series published by SPCC, 2018.
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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by Matt Probert
Souvenir deck from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin containing photographs from museum collections and archives on each card.
Southern Pacific Souvenir
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by Matt Probert
Southern Pacific Souvenir of the Golden West playing cards - Sunset, American Canyon and Shasta Routes - published by the Interstate Company exclusively for Southern Pacific News Service, c.1915.
McDonald’s Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
McDonald’s playing cards by the United States Playing Card Co., Cincinnati, c.1997
Globe Card Company
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by Simon Wintle
“Globe Playing Cards” patented on Oct. 6, 1874 by I. N. Richardson.
President Suspender
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by Rod Starling
An historic American advertising deck for the C. A. Edgarton Mfg Company, manufacturers of the President Suspender (known as “braces” in England) depicting U.S. Presidents and First Ladies on the courts.
The Steamboat Brand
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by Rod Starling
The theme of steamboats navigating up and down the Mississippi also extended to the cotton plantations alongside the river and to African American people employed therein who were sometimes depicted on the special Joker card.
Steamboats No.99
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by Rod Starling
Steamboats No.99 was one of a number of brands produced by the American Playing Card Co. of Kalamazoo.
Charles Bartlet
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by Rod Starling
Elaborate court cards on a deck by Charles Bartlet, Philadelphia, (who was in fact Samuel Hart) c.1845-60. The pip cards are double-ended. The date may be somewhere between c.1845-65.
National Card Co.
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by Simon Wintle
The National Card Co. was formed in c.1886 by Samuel J Murray, who as a young man had worked in England in Charles Goodall's playing card factory. In 1881 he moved to Cincinnati and became an employee of Russell & Morgan playing card manufacturers. In 1886 he left Russell & Morgan and moved to Indianapolis to establish the National Card Company.
