Greeting Card

1972.21.0272

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Artifact Identification Greeting Card   (1972.21.0272)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
  2. :
  3. Documentary Artifacts
  4. :
  5. Other Documents
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date 1865
Culture Euro - American

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Width) 11.5 cm
Dimension 2 (Height) 7.8 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) <0.1 cm
Weight 3 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Paper, Pigment--Ink
Manufacturing Processes Printed

Research Remarks

Description Under Review
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

American Antiquarian Society, “Making Valentines: A Tradition in America,” AAS Online
Exhibits, 2004, https://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Valentines/origins.htm.

Chase, Ernest D., The Romance of Greeting Cards, Rust Craft Publishers, 1956.

Comstock, Helen, ed. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques, Hawthorn Books, Inc.,
1965.

Hix, Lisa, “All You Need Is Paper: Why Antique Valentines Still Melt Modern Hearts,”
Collectors Weekly, 2016, https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/all-you-need-is-paper-why-
antique-valentines-still-melt-modern-hearts/.

Hix, Lisa, “Happy Valentine’s Day, I Hate You,” Collectors Weekly, (February 5, 2013),
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/happy-valentines-day-i-hate-you/.

Lee McFarling, Usha, “Won’t You Be My Valentine?” Verso, The Huntington Library (February
13, 2019), https://huntington.org/verso/2019/02/wont-you-be-my-valentine.

Little, Becky, “Nothing Says ‘I Hate You’ Like a ‘Vinegar Valentine,’” Smithsonian Magazine
(February 10, 2017), https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nothing-says-i-hate-you-vinegar-
valentine-180962109/.

Michelon, Christina, “Touching Sentiment: The Tactility Of Nineteenth-Century Valentines,”
Common Place: the journal of early American life, 2016,
https://commonplace.online/article/touching-sentiment/.

Rosin, Nancy, “Valentines – The Language of Love,” 2001,
http://www.victoriantreasury.com/languageoflove-ephsoc.html.

Shank, Barry, A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards And American Business Culture,
Columbia University Press, 2004.

“The History of Greeting Cards: The history of greeting cards from their early Chinese and
Egyptian origins to Europe and the U.S.,” Greeting Card Association.

Webb Lee, Ruth, A History Of Valentines, Lee Publications, 1952.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Gift of Natalia M. Belting
Reproduction no

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