The Great Southwest Souvenir Playing Cards

FRED HARVEY

Publication: Made and published exclusively for Fred Harvey, 1911, Kansas City

First edition. Complete deck of 54 cards, including a Joker with the deck-title, and a card with a color map of the Southwestern states. The card backs show Native Americans and horses on the prairie. The card faces each show a different photographic scene of the Southwest. The map card indicates Santa Fe hotels, dining and lunch rooms under management of Fred Harvey. The 52 different views include: The Slide, Hermit Trail, Grand Canyon, Arizona; Women of Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico, Making Rain Gods; Navaho Indian Silversmith; West from Hope Point, Grand Canyon, Arizona; The Alvarado, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Navaho Wood Nymphs [kids], Arizona; Fray Marcos Hotel, Williams, Arizona; Pueblo Indian Buck in Corn Dance Costume, Santo Domingo, N.M.; A Hopi Snake Dancer in Arizona; Elle of Canado, the Most Famous Navaho Weaver; A Pueblo Indian Woman with Ollas, New Mexico; The Cardenas, Santa Fe, Hotel, Trinidad, Colorado; The Hopi House, Grand Canyon, Arizona, on the Santa Fe; Hopi Maidens, Arizona; El Ortiz Hotel, Lamy, New Mexico; Navaho Hogans near Hopi House, Grand Canyon, Arizona; Pueblo Indian Drilling Turquoise; Pueblo of Isleta on Day of the Corn Dance, New Mexico; A Jicarilla Apache Chief, New Mexico; Havasupai Woman with Carrying Basket, Arizona; Canyon Diablo, Arizona; Hopi Indians, Hopi House, Grand Canyon, Arizona; Apaches Halting for Water, Arizona; An Apache Warrior at Navaho Rio, Arizona; Hotel Castaneda, Las Vegas, New Mexico; etc. etc. Housed in the original 3 5/8" x 2 7/8" box (worn) with a gilt title on one side and a three of diamonds on the other side. Cards are lightly soiled from use, while the photographic views remain clear. [OCLC does not record this 1911 set, and does find two holdings of a 1914 edition at Arizona State Univ. and Univ. of Texas].

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