From the vault: Vintage Valentine’s cards
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)