To My Valentine postcard with flower-decorated vintage automobile – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: To My Valentine postcard with flower-decorated vintage automobile, preserved in this vintage postcard. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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To My Valentine postcard with flower-decorated vintage automobile
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A flower-decorated automobile is the detail that sets this card apart from the many Cupid and heart designs on the same board. Early twentieth-century postcards often paired the motorcar, still a novelty and a sign of modern wealth, with sentimental holiday imagery, and Valentine's Day cards of this era were usually mailed between friends and sweethearts rather than kept as art. Cards like this were printed in large runs, frequently in color lithography, so their bright florals and cheerful motifs reflect the commercial taste of the period. The phrase "To My Valentine" was printed to be filled in by hand, which makes the card a small record of how people used these mass-produced greetings to say something personal.
| Original scan | 975 × 619 px |
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| Reference | Img77 |
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