[National emblems, a set of Civil War playing cards]

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The National emblems set of cards was printed by the American Card Company for Union Army soldiers and their families.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 by Benj. W. Hitchcock, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Purchase; Boston Rare Maps; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:089).
Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2013.
Vender : Michael Buehler, Boston Rare Maps.