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Silver Anniversary Bridge Cards, 1937

I mean, why not?

I found these buried in the ARA Historical Commission materials:

The Association of Rice Alumni had them made and then sold them as a reasonably successful fund raiser:

I noted two things of particular interest. First, the business about young Mr. Williams selling packs of these cards in the dorms. There was quite a bit of small time merchandising that took place in those buildings for a long time as there wasn’t really anywhere else around to shop. I’ll have some more about this soon.

And second, the trustees all wrote thank-you notes for their free decks! Here are some:

Bonus: The festivities have begun.

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