Showing posts with label playing cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label playing cards. Show all posts

Monday, July 2, 2018

A Group Playing a Game of Faro in the Orient Saloon in Bisbee, Arizona (1900)


A group playing a game of faro in the Orient Saloon in Bisbee, Arizona, c. 1900. By photographer C. S. Fly. The men are identified as: "Left to right - Tony Downs (standing with derby) part owner; Doyle, a concert hall singer at corner of table, sitting, with derby; back of him standing is Dutch Kid; Sleepy Dick, the porter, to right with light felt; Charlie Bassett, with soft felt hat in rear next to wall; dealer is Johnny Murphy, and Smiley Lewis in silk hat."

Source: National Archives and Records Administration.

Friday, May 11, 2018

Sunday, November 26, 2017

Portrait of Union Soldiers of the 56th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment Playing a Game of Cards in a Camp During the American Civil War (1860′s)


Portrait of Union soldiers of the 56th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment playing a game of cards in a camp during the American Civil War, c. 1860′s. From the book War Diary and Letters of Stephen Minot Weld, 1861-1865 published in 1912.

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Union Soldiers of the 12th Regiment New York State Militia Posing Between Two Rows of Barracks in Camp Anderson in Washington, D.C. (1861)


Union soldiers of the 12th Regiment New York State Militia (probably Company I) posing between two rows of barracks in Camp Anderson in Washington, D.C., 1861. Attributed to Mathew Brady.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Union Soldiers Posing Next to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Ambulance Wagons Near Falmouth, Virginia (1863)


Union soldiers posing next to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ambulance wagons near Falmouth, Virginia, April 1863. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Union Soldiers From Company M of the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment Posing in an Unidentified Camp


Union soldiers from Company M of the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment posing in front of a tent in an unidentified camp during the Civil War. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Union Soldiers Playing Cards


Union soldiers of the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment playing cards and drinking in camp, Columbus, Kentucky, 1864. By John Carbutt. Animated stereoview.

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