Card Collection (#12)

Jack of Clubs (black), from the Playing Cards series (N84) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1888

Ten Clubs (black), from the Playing Cards series (N84) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1888

Twelve Hours of Spring Pleasures: Hour of the Goat, 19th century. 19th century
Twelve Hours of Spring Pleasures: Hour of the Goat, 19th century

Box with Cards for the Poem Card Game. Creator: Shinsai
Box with Cards for the Poem Card Game

Books and Cards, 18th-19th century. 18th-19th century. Creator: Reisai
Books and Cards, 18th-19th century

Union Soldiers Sitting on Bench, Playing Cards, 1861-65. Creator: Unknown
Union Soldiers Sitting on Bench, Playing Cards, 1861-65

[Photographic Advertisement], 1860s. Creator: Emile Gsell
[Photographic Advertisement], 1860s

Greeting Card... ca. 1810. Creator: Johannes Endletzberger
Greeting Card: broken column and flaming urn, painted in shades of gray, with an engraved motto; gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, and embossed and punched paper on silk, ca. 1810

Greeting Card... 1821. Creator: Johannes Endletzberger
Greeting Card: silver embossed paper frame, engraved motto on white card stock, silk chiffon, silver Dresden urn scrap, tiny floral embellishments made of a clay-like material, watercolor

Greeting Card... ca. 1825. Creator: Johannes Endletzberger
Greeting Card:gold-framed collage, mother-of-pearl book, gold serpent, staff, and torch; gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, embossed and punched paper

Greeting Card... 1810. Creator: Johannes Endletzberger
Greeting Card: gold framed collage on silk, a gold rod with doves, an envelope made of mother-of-pearl, and a writing plume; gouache, metallic paint, metallic foil, embossed and punched paper

Girl Building a House of Cards, mid-18th century. Creator: Attributed to Thomas Frye (Irish)
Girl Building a House of Cards, mid-18th century

The Fortune-Teller, probably 1630s. Creator: Georges de la Tour
The Fortune-Teller, probably 1630s

Initiation Cards (Tsakalis), early 15th century. Creator: Unknown
Initiation Cards (Tsakalis), early 15th century

The Greeting on the three of spades, 1910. Creator: Unknown
" The Greeting" on the three of spades, 1910. Transformation playing card with people drawn around the spades: a photographer points his camera at a man offering a bunch of flowers to a

The Prosperous Baker on the five of clubs, 1910. Creator: A Hogg
" The Prosperous Baker" on the five of clubs, 1910. Transformation playing card with a baker carrying buns drawn around the clubs

The Wininng Card on the ace of diamonds, 1910. Creator: W Heath Robinson
" The Wininng Card" on the ace of diamonds, 1910. Transformation playing card with the diamond featuring as a large patch on the much-mended coat of a card-player

The waiting virgin, from the three of hearts, 1910. Creator: John Hassall
" The waiting virgin", from the three of hearts, 1910. Transformation playing card with a woman in a large hat drawn around the hearts

The two of diamonds as a basis for a comic minstrel, 1910. Creator: A Hogg
The two of diamonds as a basis for a comic minstrel, 1910. Transformation playing card with a man in a tall hat drawn around the diamonds

Three weird cranes formed out of the three of hearts, 1910. Creator: Starr Wood
Three weird cranes formed out of the three of hearts, 1910. Transformation playing card birds drawn around the hearts. Creating playing card Squiggles, or Squiggling

The corpulent Chanticleer, from the ace of hearts, 1910
" The corpulent Chanticleer, " from the ace of hearts, 1910. Transformation playing card with the heart forming the body of Chanticleer

Passengers play cards on the deck of a Red Star liner, 1907. Creator: Unknown
Passengers play cards on the deck of a Red Star liner, 1907. People enjoy a game of Bridge on board an ocean liner on a transatlantic crossing

A Card of Invitation to Ranelagh, c1876. Creator: Unknown
A Card of Invitation to Ranelagh, c1876. Ranelagh House, built in 1688-89 by the Earl of Ranelagh was a fashionable, open air music venue and pleasure garden in Chelsea

Horn-blowers wearing playing cards, 1880. Creator: Randolph Caldecott
Horn-blowers wearing playing cards, 1880. From " The Queen of Hearts", illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. [George Routledge & Sons, London, 1880]

The Poker Game, 1902. Artist: Vallotton, Felix Edouard (1865-1925)
The Poker Game, 1902. Found in the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris

The Game of Cards, late 19th-early 20th century, (1965). Creator: Vladimir Makovsky
The Game of Cards, late 19th-early 20th century, (1965). From " Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]

Valentines Day, mid 19th century. Creator: J Brain
Valentines Day, mid 19th century. A young man is revealed behind a curtain, reading a letter, while his sisters giggle and point

Valentine Makers, 1875. Creator: H Johnson
Valentine Makers, 1875. A woman and her daughter doing piece-work making Valentines cards, applying various elaborate componenents to embossed lace paper

Good Wishes Just Now Are In Season, 1882. Creator: M Walker
Good Wishes Just Now Are In Season, 1882. A group of women writing Christmas cards in a room decorated with holly. The scene is framed with examples of the cards they are sending

Valentine Receivers, 1875. Creator: H Johnson
Valentine Receivers, 1875. A well-to-do woman and her daughter opening and reading Valentines cards and gifts. Elaborate cards were made by hand from embossed lace paper

The Forty-Four restaurant card, c1955. Creator: Shirley Markham
The " Forty-Four" restaurant card, c1955. Card advertising a restaurant in Harcourt Street, Dublin, Ireland, illustrated with chefs

The School House, Little Bedwyn, 1980s. Creator: Shirley Markham
The School House, Little Bedwyn, 1980s. Design for a visiting card - the artists home in Wiltshire, 1980s-1990s. Shirley Markham (1931-1999)

An Invitation Card by Hogarth, (1881). Creator: Unknown
An Invitation Card by Hogarth, (1881). Card with drawing of a plate, knife and fork by William Hogarth (1697-1764), inviting a friend to dinner

Express The Empire State Express, English postcard 1910s

Express to Ireland, British postcard 1910s

Document of 25 duros (Spanish coin) of the A Series of society La Navegacion Submarina, constituted by Messr. Monturiol, Font and Altadill in Barcelona on July 15, 1864

Document case of the Autonomous Centre of Commerce and Industry Shop Assistants, Mutua Feminal section (Feminine section)

Archery at the samurai in the gardens of Chiyoda No Onmote-Yabusame Jyoran, popular card, 1897

Great War of Ko Etsu Kawanakajima, samurai of the army of Usami Sunpu No Kami, popular card by the Japanese painter and printmaker Kuniyoshi Utagawa Ichiyusai

Vallvidrera Funicular Line, 1915 photograph, postcard published by ATV (Angel Tolra Viazo)

Vallvidrera Funicular, crossing the line, photography of 1915, edited by ATV postcard (Angel Tolra Viazo)

Vallvidrera Funicular, upper station, photograph of 1915, edited by ATV postcard (Angel Tolra Viazo)

Haro Railway Station (La Rioja), postcard

Title Page, from Alices Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, pub. 1907 (lithograph)

Window of an employment office, on Sixth Avenue near Forty-third Street, New York, early 1930s. Job vacancies being advertised during the Great Depression

Production line control room, Spillers Animal Foods, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 1962. A controller checking a punch card which instructs him to made an adjustment to the food mix

Tabulating machines in the punch room in a Sheffield Factory office, 1963. Artist
Tabulating machines in the punch room in a Sheffield factory office, South Yorkshire, 1963. scene in the offices of the Edgar Allen Steel Company

Hollerith data machine in an office at the Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Herman Hollerith was born in 1860 of German parentage

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping