1 Item, game (51 playing cards, 2 informational cards, 1 instruction sheet), paper, col., 9 x 6 cm.
Access Note / Rights:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Summary:
A card game designed by social scientist Robert Morey created to teach socialism to Americans in the 1930s. Artists Rockwell Kent, Peggy Bacon, Esther Vance, William Gropper, and George Schreiber designed the deck of cards. There are two special cards, Honesty and Kindness and five suits consisting of six numbered cards and four face cards representing various occupations including a banker, an artist, a professor, a lawyer, and many others.
Citation:
Privilege: The Modern Game with Social Significance, 1938. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Location of Originals:
Original drawings for the deck and additional duplicate decks located at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y.
Biography Note:
Social scientist, New Haven, Conn. and Canandaigua, N.Y.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Donated 2007 by the National Museum of American History who received the cards from from Roger B.Taylor, who found them when he moved into the former home of Morey.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
