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Playing Cards
- Material
- CARDBOARD; UNKNOWN
- Description
- 2012.66.1 a: A red cardboard slip case with a paper picture of a lady wearing a brown hat with green & blue ribbons in the center. Around the picture is black and patterened with gold swirts. Grand Trunk Pacific is printed in gold within small black squares in each corner. The picture is finished o…
- Title
- Grand Trunk Pacific playing cards
- Category
- RECREATION OBJECTS
- Sub-Category
- GAME
- Start Date
- 1914
- End Date
- 1919
- Period or Date Notes
- The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway operated between 1914 and 1919, when it was nationalized as the Canadian National Railway. Design of woman on back of cards also reflects mid-to-late 1910s fashions.
- Description
- 2012.66.1 a: A red cardboard slip case with a paper picture of a lady wearing a brown hat with green & blue ribbons in the center. Around the picture is black and patterened with gold swirts. Grand Trunk Pacific is printed in gold within small black squares in each corner. The picture is finished off with a narrow black band.
2012.66.1 b: An open ended box which holds the deck of cards and slips into the above case.
2012.66.1 c: The full deck of cards with the same picture on the front of the cards as on the slip case. On the back of each card is an oval photo of various areas the GTR would have gone through en route across Canada
- History Of Use
- Grand Trunk Pacific railway
- Material
- CARDBOARD; UNKNOWN
- Height
- 2.1 cm
- Width
- 6.7 cm
- Length
- 9.3 cm
- Units Of Measurement
- Centimeters
- Number Of Parts
- 3
- Accession No.
- 2012.66.1 a-c
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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