Object Number: TA1963

Collection: Social History

Object Name: playing cards

Description: Forty-eight Old Maid cards depicting contemporary images of a baby, nurse, jester, judge, prince, princess, king and queen of six different 'races': Brit[s], Neg[roes], In[dians], Choc[taws], Turk[s] and Jap[anese]. There is also an Old Maid card. The 'Brit princess' card is missing, forty-eight cards in total.