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Title: Price list of diaries for 1866, published by Olney & Pratt, importers and jobbers of stationery, no. 41 John Street, New-York.
Description: Folded price list for diaries and the card game Bézique., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Olney & Pratt., creator
Date: [1865].
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: The Gambler.
Description: A man stands with an ace and a spade card on each shoulder. He holds a case in one hand and a bag of gold in the other. Faro was a popular 19th-century card game. The border shows cupids and hearts; one cupid shoots a heart out of a thimble cannon labeled "Love"; another cupid travels with a heart in a hot-air balloon; and another cupid hammers at a cracked heart below a heart on a fishhook labeled "Caught.", Text: Gay "gambolier," [i.e gambler] what brings you here / With your faro chips and aces? / Crawl back, again, to your smoky den, / Wherein your proper place is. / Half-swell, half-rough, the air you snuff / For simpletons belated, / Who, in the light, would hardly bite / At hooks with tinsel belated., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: [Incomplete set of "Series C" of "Hidden Book Titles" rebus puzzle card game]
Description: Incomplete set of card game (9 of 15 cards) to which "ladies and gentlemen" couples interpreted the pictures on each card to name the title of the book (depicted as a rebus) and for additional credit, the name of the author. Some imagery is racialized. Includes No. 4 showing a framed portrait of a bride + "of" + a lamb + "R" + a three-quarter length image of the left profile of a Black man in a hooded robe holding out one arm and holding a staff with the other = The Bride of Lamermoor; No. 6 showing a map of the Southern portion of the U.S. as well as the Philippine Islands + a cluster of addressed envelopes = American Lands and Letters; No. 8 showing the front profile of a black cat = The Black Cat; No. 9 showing two capital letter Y's + "and" + two lower case letter y's = Wise and Otherwise; No. 10 showing an oblong-shaped globe turned to the side with Greenland, America, South America, and New Zealand visible = The Wide, Wide World; No. 11 showing an open chest + "R"+ a desk on which a series of books with titles beginning "Tales" stand = Old Chester Tales; No. 12 showing a lantern out of which a ray of light shines + a man using a manual lawn mower + "NA" = Ramona; No. 13 showing the front profile of a very round hog + "Rt" + the Pigot Diamond captioned "Exact Size of Pigot Diamond" = The Great Hogarty Diamond; and No. 14 depicting a woman with sunken cheeks lying up in bed and with a tray of food on her lap + an eye + a newspaper ad for a "Blacksmith" = Iliad. One of a series of four "Hidden Book Titles" games, including Series A with thirty cards, and series B and C with fifteen cards, and Series D (Literati) with fifty-five cards., Publication information based on copyright statement: Copyright Oct., 1899, by the Hidden Book-Title Publishing co., Philadelphia, Pa., Housed in envelope., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC
Date: Oct., 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - games & toys - Hidden [P.2021.35.1a-i]

Title: The Smile that was childlike
Description: Print depicting characters from Bret Harte’s 1870 poem “Plain Language from Truthful James” later reprinted as “The Heathen Chinee.” The narrative of the poem focuses on two white men, Bill Nye and “Truthful James,” and a Chinese man named Ah Sin playing the card game Euchre. Bill and James believe Ah Sin is “childlike” and does not comprehend how to play the game. The print shows Bill and James standing in the left on a dirt road and showing playing cards to Ah Sin, who looks on with his hands in his pockets. Ah Sin is depicted in racist caricature and wears a queue hairstyle, a conical hat, gold hoop earrings, a blue tunic and pants, and cloth, slip-on shoes. In the background are mountains and a partial view of a cabin. Later in the poem’s narrative, Bill cheats playing the game by having cards up his sleeve. When Ah Sin plays a card that James already has, it is discovered that Ah Sin is also cheating with decks of cards hidden in his sleeves. Bill proceeds to fight Ah Sin. Bret Harte’s poem “Plain Language from Truthful James,” satirizing anti-Chinese sentiment, was originally published in the Overland Monthly Magazine in September, 1870. It became widely popular and was reprinted and republished as “The Heathen Chinee” in several illustrated series in pamphlet and loose print form., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Print contains registrations marks., See related: GC-Genre [P.2007.39.24]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC-Genre [P.2007.39.23]

Title: The Smile that was childlike
Description: Print depicting characters from Bret Harte’s 1870 poem “Plain Language from Truthful James” later reprinted as “The Heathen Chinee.” The narrative of the poem focuses on two white men, Bill Nye and “Truthful James,” and a Chinese man named Ah Sin playing the card game Euchre. Bill and James believe Ah Sin is “childlike” and does not comprehend how to play the game. The print shows Bill and James standing in the left on a dirt road and showing playing cards to Ah Sin, who looks on with his hands in his pockets. Ah Sin is depicted in racist caricature and wears a queue hairstyle, a conical hat, gold hoop earrings, a blue tunic and pants, and cloth, slip-on shoes. In the background are mountains and a partial view of a cabin. Later in the poem’s narrative, Bill cheats playing the game by having cards up his sleeve. When Ah Sin plays a card that James already has, it is discovered that Ah Sin is also cheating with decks of cards hidden in his sleeves. Bill proceeds to fight Ah Sin. Bret Harte’s poem “Plain Language from Truthful James,” satirizing anti-Chinese sentiment, was originally published in the Overland Monthly Magazine in September, 1870. It became widely popular and was reprinted and republished as “The Heathen Chinee” in several illustrated series in pamphlet and loose print form., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Print contains registrations marks., See related: GC-Genre [P.2007.39.24]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC-Genre [P.2007.39.23]

Title: Improved Authors with Portraits & Autographs Card Game
Description: Incomplete card game containing 68 illustrated cards. Cards depict the bust-length portraits of Thomas Bailey Aldrich; William Cullen Bryant; Robert Burns; Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain"; J. Fenimore Cooper; Ralph Waldo Emerson; James T. Fields; F. Bret Harte; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William Dean Howells; Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Samuel Rogers; Bayard Taylor; Alfred Tennyson; Charles Dudley Warner; Richard Grant White; and John G. Whittier. Some portraits are in profile. Versos of cards contain an allegorical image composed of a stack of books, scrolls and leaves of paper, a laurel wreath, and a quill pen. Includes small number of incomplete sets for J. Fenimore Cooper, Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White. Lowell set includes a cut-out of the portrait from an original card.

Title: Improved authors with portraits & autographs
Description: Incomplete card game containing 68 illustrated cards. Cards depict the bust-length portraits of Thomas Bailey Aldrich; William Cullen Bryant; Robert Burns; Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain"; J. Fenimore Cooper; Ralph Waldo Emerson; James T. Fields; F. Bret Harte; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William Dean Howells; Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Samuel Rogers; Bayard Taylor; Alfred Tennyson; Charles Dudley Warner; Richard Grant White; and John G. Whittier. Some portraits are in profile. Versos of cards contain an allegorical image composed of a stack of books, scrolls and leaves of paper, a laurel wreath, and a quill pen. Includes small number of incomplete sets for J. Fenimore Cooper, Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White. Lowell set includes a cut-out of the portrait from an original card., Publication date based on copyright statement on box cover., Includes "Improved Authors Directions for Playing" instruction sheet. Instructions note that the 72 cards containing the "Portrait and Autograph of some distinguished Author, together with the titles of three [of their] different works" are to be "arranged in 18 groups of four cards each" with the goal to get as many complete groups as possible., Box cover printed with gilt lettering and a decorative border., Gift of Clarence Wolf., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box.
Creator: McLoughlin Bros.
Date: 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Improved [P.8453]

Title: The Game of Philadelphia Buildings Flashcards
Description: Card game containing fifty-three cards depicting landmarks and historic and well-known sites in the city.

Title: The game of Philadelphia buildings
Description: Card game containing fifty-three cards depicting landmarks and historic and well-known sites in the city. Cards depict (1) State House; (2) Carpenter's Hall; (3) Christ Church; (4) Old Swedes' Church; (5) Bartram's House; (6) Franklin's Grave; (7) University of Pennsylvania; (8) Pennsylvania Hospital; (9) Academy of Natural Science; (10) Franklin Institute; (11) Historical Society of Pennsylvania; (12) Academy of Music; (13) Academy of Fine Arts; (14) Mint (Chestnut and Juniper); (15) Girard College; (16) Custom House; (17) Old Stock Exchange; (18) Cramps' Ship Yard; (19) William Penn's Cottage; (20) Masonic Temple; (21) Odd Fellows' Hall; (22) Reading Terminal; (23) Pennsylvania R.R. station; (24) Union League; (25) Art Club; (26) Mercantile Club; (27) Memorial Hall; (28) Horticultural Hall; (29) Betsy Ross House; (30) Entrance to Zoological Garden; (31) Post Office; (32) Fairmount Water Works; (33) Philadelphia Library; (34) Ridgway Library; (35) New Horticultural Hall; (36) Chestnut Street Theater; (37) Chestnut Street Opera House; (38) Century Club; (39) Twelfth Street Meeting House; (40) Synagogue Rodef Shalom; (41) Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul; (42) High School for Girls; (43) Normal School for Girls; (44) High School for Boys; (45) Bourse; (46) Baldwin Locomotive Works; (47) Drexel Institute; (48) Mary J. Drexel Home; (49) Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art; (50) St. George's Hall; (51) St. Peter's Church; (52) City Hall; and (53) [National Export Exposition Building]., Images include statuary; grave stones; site visitors; partial views of adjacent buildings; lampposts; street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages and street cars; signage, broadsides, and posters; window awnings; electrical lines; and trees. Majority of images are reproductions of photographs, except images of Cramp's Ship Yard, High School for Boys, Baldwin Locomotive Works, and the National Export Exposition Building, which are after prints., Publication date based on statement on box cover "Title copyright by Miss Mary S. Holmes 1899.", Box cover contains halftone photomechanical print showing Independence Hall on the 500 block of Chestnut Street. Also shows neighboring buildings, including Congress Hall and the roof of the Public Ledger Building. Vignette of the seal of Philadelphia is visible in the lower left corner., Accompanied by photostat of the rules to play the game and "Key to the Pictures" (1-52), including addresses and years of completion for the sites, signed "Copyrighted by Mary S. Holmes. December, 1898. The Billstein Co., Philadelphia.", Prints numbered in lower left corner, as well as labeled with a letter and sequential number in lower right corner. Letter and sequential number are absent on Card No. 53., Mary S. Holmes was most likely the Philadelphia educator with memberships in the Philadelphia Geographical Society and Teachers' Photographic Association. In the 1890s, she taught at Girls High School and Commerical High School for Girls. She later served as the principal for the Germantown High School for Girls., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box.
Date: [1899]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Game [8188.F]

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