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Prison playing cards

Posted in Beinecke Library, Cary Playing Card Collection by beineckepoetry on March 30, 2009

A selection of handmade and delicately stencil-printed playing cards,
made by inmates of Russian prisons, ca. 1980s – 1990s.

A postcard from the Langston Hughes Papers, ca. 1933.