[Playing cards in the Marion S. Carson Collection]
Contributors: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1825
Language: eng
Subjects: Playing cards -- Specimens.; Fortune-telling by cards.
Description: Seven sets of playing cards and 1 booklet, including The flying girl (New York : Russell Playing Card Co.) and Whist, costumes swisses (Frankfurt : B. Dondorf), both in boxes, and Directions for using Mlle. Lenormand's diviners, fortune telling cards (37 p.).  1 card set is from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. 3 unidentified sets appear to have been manufactured in the 19th century.