Playing Cards, Card Games
and American Culture
Created by
Laura Munley
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Artifacts
"The Deck of Cards in the Greenbelt
Museum"
Greenbelt, Maryland
"Playing Cards and Greenbelt,
Maryland during the 1930s and 1940s"
* Cards and Community
* Playing Cards and Children
* Card Tricks
* Playing Cards and Gambling
* Buying Cards
* Playing Cards
History, Society and
Culture
"Playing Cards: Yesterday and
Today"
* History
* Yesterday
* Today
"Popular Card Games"
* Most Popular Card Games of the 1940s
* Card Games as They Relate to Family Income
* Rules of Popular Card Games
"A Guide to the General Rules of Play"
* Cards
* Cutting
* Partners, Seating, Rotation
* Scoring
* Dealing, Dealer and Shuffle and Cut
* Play
* Cheating
References