USPCC Collection

[variantventures]

The USPCC's playing card collection has been acquired by Vanderbilt University.  Hopefully that means the collection will once again be available to researchers.  Yay.

[Worst Bower]

There was an earlier thread about it:

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/08/25/vanderbilt-now-home-to-extraordinary-gaming-collection/

Here is another article: http://www.bicyclecards.com/article/vanderbilt-university-preserves-uspc-book-collection/#filter

No word yet on when it will be available for public viewing.

[variantventures]

2018 according to the librarian I corresponded with.  Also, while the catalog will be online there is apparently no effort at this time to digitize the collection itself.  So you'll still have to travel to Vanderbilt to see items in the collection.  I've already submitted a list of items I'd like to examine when it becomes possible to do so.