Valentine card: young man with hearts, 'To my dear Valentine' – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Valentine card: young man with hearts, 'To my dear Valentine'. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Valentine card: young man with hearts, 'To my dear Valentine'
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A young man, drawn in a stiff, formal pose, holds a bouquet of hearts above a sentiment printed in plain type: "To my dear Valentine." Cards of this kind were a staple of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when printers turned out sentimental greetings in large numbers and buyers sent them through the mail or left them for a sweetheart by hand. The lettering and the idealized figure reflect the period's taste for romantic convention, in which affection was often expressed through set phrases and familiar symbols rather than personal words. Notice how the hearts do the emotional work here, standing in for sentiment the sender may not have known how to put into his own language.
| Original scan | 518 × 814 px |
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| Reference | Img153 |
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