BEIN ENG38 : From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system, modified (swords, wands, pentacles, cups), Type: Cartomancy., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., CourtCards: Cavaliers are called knights; jacks are labelled pages., Pipcards and Jokers: Pip cards numbered X-II., Trumps: Single figure trumps; II: THE HIGH PRIESTESS; V: THE HIEROPHANT., The cards appeared originally with Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910. All cards bear the designer's monogram. Suits of batons and money are labelled wands and pentacles., and Label indicates that the pack was printed in Great Britian and distributed by the Church of Light, Los Angeles.
N.A.A.C.P. publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978 and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978
Description:
BEIN JWJ Zan N213 +915N: Some of these items are accompanied by articles printed from the World Wide Web., A collection of NAACP items. Most were published by the organization itself, one was published by a sympathizer, and two, emblematic of racial prejudice, were produced anonymously., The sympathetic publication is a broadside with the title "Strong man!" It was distributed by Hollywood Beauty Secrets Company, owned by Mr. & Mrs. Homer Goodwin, Hollywood, California, and it urged people to join the NAACP., The anonymous items, probably from 1963, are a dollar bill with a message stamped on it and a contribution card, one or both of which were likely produced by the Ku Klux Klan., and Included in the collection are two letters to individuals on NAACP stationery, not listed among the titles of the printed works.
Publisher:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, Waco., and United States
Subject (Name):
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.