Miner Cupid: "I've struck it rich!" To my Valentine – Historic Reproduction
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This rare historic image captures Miner Cupid: "I've struck it rich!" To my Valentine in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Miner Cupid: "I've struck it rich!" To my Valentine
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Cupid appears here as a grizzled prospector, pick over his shoulder, announcing that he has "struck it rich" and addressing the card to his Valentine. The joke draws on the gold rush, which had long shaped American popular culture, from the California strike of 1848 to the Klondike rush of the late 1890s. Comic Valentines like this were mass-produced and mailed in large numbers in the early twentieth century, and they often borrowed familiar figures and slang to make a sentimental holiday playful. The pairing of romance with a get-rich-quick boast reflects how thoroughly mining imagery had entered everyday humor by then.
| Original scan | 941 × 1,500 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Img175 |
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