Niagara Falls • America’s National Parks • Travel USA
The American Landmarks Collector Set brings together three perspectives on the landscapes, journeys and visual traditions that shaped America’s sense of place: Niagara Falls, America’s National Parks and Travel USA.
Each deck explores a different aspect of American identity through historic imagery and design. Niagara Falls salutes one of the world’s great natural wonders, presenting the Falls through vintage postcards, posters and travel imagery that transformed nature into a symbol of grandeur and exploration. America’s National Parks draws on the celebrated poster art of the 1930s Federal Art Project, where bold graphic design helped promote conservation and introduced generations to the country’s wilderness landscapes. Travel USA captures the golden age of American travel, from open highways and scenic railways to roadside attractions and the romance of discovery.
Each deck is a collection of 54 carefully selected images, preserving the way places were imagined, promoted and remembered. Together they reveal how landscapes became landmarks, and how art, tourism and design shaped the way people experienced a vast country.
From the power of Niagara Falls to the scale of America’s wilderness and the optimism of the open road, the collection celebrates the relationship between place and memory. These are not only records of locations, but of the posters, advertisements and journeys that turned them into enduring symbols.
Collecting brings these destinations together. Individual landmarks sit within a wider story of exploration, conservation and travel, creating a personal archive of American history and design.
Explore the individual decks:
Niagara Falls Playing Cards
America’s National Parks Playing Cards
Travel USA Playing Cards
To learn more about travel history, landscape art and the design movements behind these images, visit the Bird Playing Cards blog.
If you are interested in how these collections are designed and structured, discover more on our art playing cards page.
Add the American Landmarks Collector Set to your collection and continue building your archive of travel, design and cultural history.
