Can you read her face to determine the strength of the hand she was dealt?  From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1962.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal a different version.

"You only think you are [esteemed]."  From 1908, scanned by the ArchiveProject.

"The faces made me shiver."  From English Illustrated, 1907.

"He took in a card to explain the second ring," from Pearson's, 1910.

From Mocca, 1936.  We previously saw another deck of cards playing strip poker with itself.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the photo that inspired the artwork. From 1923.

You've heard of the Four of Clubs symbolizing the "Devil's bedposts," but here's the Ace of Diamonds as the Devil himself.  From Pearson's, 1897.

Here's a pipe reflecting the King of Spades.  From English Illustrated, 1894.  Ce n'est pas un moyen de tricher aux cartes.

"No! no! don't come down please, your Majesty.  You've done quite enough mischief where you are."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1872.  Previously, we found another vintage example of the Queen of Hearts stepping out of her card: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=10579

From our collection of Magic Words & Symbols Spotted in the Wild:

In the late 1800s, the J & P. Coats thread company released Tarot-like trade cards.

Here's one of the cards from the Self-Intuiting Polarity deck.  Sunlight streams into a vase due to a crack.  The sunlight reflects through the vase and onto a cloud.  "In the middle of the shadow, like a gleam of light through a crack, the way ... is in our power, as long as we will ourselves to do so” (G. von Leibniz).

Here is revealed what the King of Hearts loves, from L'Oncle de l'Europe by John Grand-Carteret, 1906.

We don't often encounter sun faces comprised of playing card suits.  This one appears in Bingham Military School's Sword and Rifle yearbook, 1903.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Here's a tricky card from L'Oncle de l'Europe by John Grand-Carteret, 1906.

From The Myths and Fables of To-Day by Samuel Adams Drake, 1900.