Gilded Age cards feature hundreds of topics including people, events, concepts, and art. Each base card has a captivating photograph or illustration with a descriptive history on the back. Trading cards are a fun way to learn: you can start with any card and learn randomly or reorder them by date, topic, or subject. The 330-card base set includes Robber Barons, Railroads, Monopolies, Industrialization, Yellow Journalism, Immigration, the Titanic, the Gold Rush, and Manifest Destiny, with cards #221-330 being super short printed (SSP).
This period of American History, approximately 1869-1912, featured rapid industrialization, minimal regulation and opulent Society gliding over political corruption, unemployment and crushing poverty. See what life was really like during this time. Meet the robber barons, see where they lived and how they got so so rich. Learn about Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Hearst, Ford, Rockefeller, Pullman cars, Boss Tweed, the Gibson girls, Edison v. Tesla, bloody labor strikes and scandals and so much more!
Introducing our exciting 21st pack base card parallels which include an alternative design to the base set, featuring 8 bright holographic Aurora color versions. Each 21st pack contains 5 cards, with one being numbered to 32 or less!
Card subsets include:
Base Cards & Parallel Sets
Buy Back Cards
Written Word Relic Cards
Autograph Cards
Shipwreck Relic Cards
Dirt Relic Cards
1/1 Artist Sketch Cards
Fabric and Button Cards
Single and Dual Historic DNA Cards
5th Avenue Mansion Lenticular Cards
Victorian Pin-up Cards (Hobby Exclusive!)
Autograph Checklist:
Ty Cobb
John D. Rockefeller
Jenny Lind
Charles Dickens
Thomas Edison
Jacob Riis
Vanderbilt family members
Queen Victoria
Horace Greely
Phineas T. Barnum
Presidents Cleveland, Hoover, Taft & McKinley
Configuration: 21 Packs per Box, 5 Cards per Pack