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Original old maid cards 1950s11/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Seeing these cards got me to wondering about what other derogatory figures were in the Old Maid decks. The worst was Jazzbo Jackson, a man in a green suit, red-rose corsage and some missing teeth. The two black figures in the most recent deck were named Agonizing Sue, a woman in a pink dress with pink lips. The first deck I found was all white characters with caricatured names and poses, but not caricatures themselves. ![]() The cards were made by Whitman Publishing Co., and although neither deck had a date on it, they appeared to be from the 1940s or 1950s. Unfortunately, they were in stereotypical poses, which shouldn’t have been surprising. At an auction recently, I came across a deck of Old Maid cards, 45 in a box. This was the second time in the last six months or so that I’d found a deck of the cards, but this time, I uncovered a pair of black figures.
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