Hand-colored postcard: You've Enlisted My Affection For You – 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: Hand-colored postcard: You've Enlisted My Affection For You, 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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Hand-colored postcard: You've Enlisted My Affection For You
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Cupid, the winged figure of desire from Roman myth, is the subject here, and the wording of the title sets the tone: "You've Enlisted My Affection" plays on military recruitment, with the sweetheart cast as a willing soldier of love. Hand-colored postcards like this were popular in the early twentieth century, when printed Valentines were mass-produced and often tinted by hand to add bright reds, pinks, and golds. Cards of this kind mixed sentiment with gentle humor, and their message-first design made them a common way to send affection through the mail.
| Original scan | 586 × 930 px |
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| Reference | Img66 |
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