Valentines Gallery

Pucks valentines

Puck's valentines. Illustration shows at center a valentine card featuring President Theodore Roosevelt as cupid surrounded by other valentines featuring two European leaders (William II of Germany and Nicholas II of Russia), a prophet (Dowie), American industrial figures (Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan) and politicians (Bryan, Parker, and Fairbanks), a Russian admiral (Rozhestvensky), a man identified only as Tom who writes a thousand words per minute on typewriters, and a Wall Street con artist (Chadwick). Date 1905 February 8. Puck's valentines. Illustration shows at center a valentine card featuring President Theodore Roosevelt as cupid surrounded by other valentines featuring two European leaders (William II of Germany and Nicholas II of Russia), a prophet (Dowie), American industrial figures (Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan) and politicians (Bryan, Parker, and Fairbanks), a Russian admiral (Rozhestvensky), a man identified only as Tom who writes a thousand words per minute on typewriters, and a Wall Street con artist (Chadwick). Date 1905 February 8

© Mary Evans / Library of Congress

Valentine makers at work 1880

The process of making Valentine's cards which were popularlised in the Victorian period, largely due to advances in industrial printing which made them affordable. These cards are particularly high end, involving lacing, silver and gold. The workforce is of mixed gender although it appears that the stage of "making up the valentines" from their constituent parts was a primarily female task.
1880

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Cupid with good advice on a comic Valentine card

Cupid with a book entitled good advice to young people about to marry, contained in a short tale of repentance, on a comic Valentine card. The advice inside the book is probably just one word: DON'T !! Date: circa 1890s

© The David Pearson Collection/Mary Evans Picture Library

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