Privilege: The Modern Game with Social Significance
odd: label: Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint)
content: New Haven, Conn.: Robert Morey, 1938.
name: label: Creator
content: Morey, Robert
label: Names
content: Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987
label: Names
content: Gropper, William, 1897-1977
label: Names
content: Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971
label: Names
content: Schreiber, Georges, 1904-
label: Names
content: Vance, Esther
topic: label: Topic
content: Card games
label: Topic
content: Socialism
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2007 by the National Museum of American History who received the cards from from Roger B.Taylor, who found them when he moved into the former home of Morey.
creator: label: Creator
content: Morey, Robert
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Social scientist, New Haven, Conn. and Canandaigua, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (game (51 playing cards, 2 informational cards, 1 instruction sheet), paper, col., 9 x 6 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.morerobe
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original drawings for the deck and additional duplicate decks located at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A card game designed by social scientist Robert Morey created to teach socialism to Americans in the 1930s. Artists Rockwell Kent, Peggy Bacon, Esther Vance, William Gropper, and George Schreiber designed the deck of cards. There are two special cards, Honesty and Kindness and five suits consisting of six numbered cards and four face cards representing various occupations including a banker, an artist, a professor, a lawyer, and many others.