Army & Navy playing cards

Description

Title: Army & Navy playing cards
Contributor: A. Dougherty (Firm), playing card maker.
Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published / Created: [1865]
Copyright Date: ©1865
Publication Place: New York and United States New York (State) New York
Publisher: A. Dougherty
Description: BEIN USA198: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Title from wrapper.
Suit system: Monitors, Merrimacks, Zouaves, drummer boys.
Type: Historical.
Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2].
Issued in Wrapper, red, white, and blue: ARMY & NAVY / PLAYING CARDS / MANUFACTURED BY / A. DOUGHERTY, New York. / Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by / ANDREW DOUGHERTY, / In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for / the Southern District of New York.
Aces: Ace of Monitors: TO COMMEMORATE / THE GREATEST EVENT IN NAVAL HISTORY. / THE SUBSTITUTION OF / IRON FOR WOOD. / A. DOUGHERTY / MANUFACTURER / 26 BEEKMAN ST. N.Y.; ace of Merrimacks: A. DOUGHERTY / MANUFACTURER / 26 BEEKMAN ST. N.Y.
CourtCards: Courts are caricatures.
Extent: 52 cards : 91 x 64 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.

Genre: Specimens
Playing cards
Material: color ; and lithography
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Geographic): United States
Subject (Topic): Playing cards
Subjects: Playing cards > United States > Specimens
Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941 > Ownership
Cary, Mary Flagler > Ownership

Access: Public
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