Valentine Greetings card with dove and woman – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of Valentine Greetings card with dove and woman brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Valentine Greetings card with dove and woman
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A dove carrying a letter and a woman in a lace-trimmed bonnet make up the central scene of this Valentine greeting card, a combination that signals the card's sentimental, message-bearing purpose. Cards like this one grew popular in the nineteenth century, when printers began producing mass-made paper valentines with embossed borders, printed verses, and romantic imagery drawn from classical myth and courtship. The dove, long associated with love and messages, stands in for the postal exchange that carried these tokens between sweethearts, so the image doubles as a small comment on how affection traveled by mail.
| Original scan | 528 × 822 px |
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| Reference | Img31 |
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