"The gypsy girl was sorting out the cards.  'Now cross my palm with gold,' she said."  From The Moving House by Pauline Bradford Mackie and illustrated by Howard E. Smith, 1918.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.

"His Satanic Majesty sends out cards for the rest of the year."  From The Harvard Lampoon, 1895.

Here's a precursor to the opening of The Brady Bunch, and the figures at the top and bottom are looking into spaces where more people could fit.  From The Judge, 1915.

"Luck versus brains in our better-known games," from The Sketch, 1911.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

The 8 of Diamonds: "Night is Might."  From Jugend, 1902.

"An old card superstition that people standing behind one's back during play bring bad luck is well founded."  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

"Major or minor success?  What do the cards say/  Miss Gertie Millar, who is to the heroine of 'A Waltz Dream,' consults the fates."  From The Sketch, 1908.

"Not a card fell."  From The Water Ghost and Others by John Kendrick Bangs, 1894.

From Pick Me Up, 1892.

Here's an early example of the "Dogs Playing Poker" genre of schlock art.  From Le Rire, 1903.

"The fortune-teller," from The Sketch, 1902.

"On the turn of the card," from Truth Christmas Number, 1894.

Prophetical, Educational, and Playing Cards by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, 1912.