Progressive Chautauqua Playing Cards, 1897

Item — Box: 10

Identifier: id132970

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Set of 66 cards, one instruction card, and one index card for Progressive Chautauqua (3" x 4 ½"). Includes the original box. Instruction cards explain rules of play and talk about the advantages of becoming a salesperson for products and publications by the Peoples Book Co., with copyright by W.M. Ford. It addresses the young, unemployed, preachers and women. For example: "To ladies thrown on their own resources for livelihood, it offers honorable, independent employment." The cards feature people and places related to the Holy Bible, including Moses, Cain, Egypt, and Esther.

Dates

Creation: 1897

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

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