From the vault: Vintage Valentine’s cards

Feb 11, 2016

From the vault: Vintage Valentine’s cards

Emma Patti Harris 0 Comment From the Vault, The Baltimore Sun antique, valentines, valentines cards, vintage

Take a look back at antique Valentine’s cards, some dating back to the 1800’s, that have a much different look and sentiment from today’s love-filled messages.

: This dainty lass delivering a “Valentine’s Greeting” was on collection at the Maryland Historical Society. (Baltimore Sun, 1977)

: Antique valentine (Baltimore Sun, 1985)

: Peanuts’ valentine (Irving Phillips/Baltimore Sun, 1978)

: A Valentine Remembrance. Original cutline: “Seventy four years ago, it appears, St. Valentine went in for inflation in a big way. This Valentine, of date of January 27, 1852, was the original sent to the Library of Congress for copyright.” (Associated Press Photo, 1936)

: Antique valentine (Baltimore Sun, 1985)

: Antique valentine (Baltimore Sun, 1985)

: Antique valentine (Baltimore Sun, 1984)

: Hand colored, unattributed, American Valentine from the late 1850’s. (Irving Phillips/Baltimore Sun, 1977)

: Antique valentine (Baltimore Sun, 1956)

: Antique valentine (Baltimore Sun, 1975)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1947)

: Antique valentine (Baltimore Sun, 1956)

: Original cutline: “Perhaps the gentleman whose life and career are examined in review at the bottom of the page had a lot to do with revising this sort of sentiment. These artifacts, however, predate Freud; they’re from the 1880’s and ’90’s when palpitating hearts meant Romance with a capital R, not coronary occlusions. These are from “Hearts & Flowers,” a collection of Victorian Valentine postcards from Harmony Books. The valentines may be clipped out and send to your honey in time for Friday.” (Baltimore Sun, 1975)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1944)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1947)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1953)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1953)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1953)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1956)

: Valentines for soldiers (Baltimore Sun, 1943)

: Political valentine (Baltimore Sun, 1959)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1953)

: Original cutline: “The old Valentines represent two pages in the scrapbook kept by Ms. Emma Howell and Mrs. Helen Bayley Davis. These delicate, lace fringed cards are approximately three quarters of a century old. (Baltimore Sun, 1965)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1947)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1953)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1948)

: Antique valentines (Baltimore Sun, 1956)

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