He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
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Daisy petals and a sweetheart theme give this piece its name, "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not," a folk game in which a person plucks petals one at a time while reciting the alternating phrases. The game was a common courtship pastime in Victorian and Edwardian parlors and on postcards, where it spoke to the uncertainty of a romance before a declaration. Filed under Valentine's Day at Applewood, the picture shows how sentimental imagery of this kind moved from private rituals into mass-produced greeting cards in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photographic print on stereo card, stereograph |
| Notes | E.W. Kelley |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,361 × 1,509 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | VAL-43 |
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