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Valentines.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

George S. Brooks miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938594]
Identifier: 366
Scope and content Leaves from a scrapbook, some with items glued to them and others accompanied by cut-out illustrations intended to be glued in. Illustrations include many political cartoons and patriotic labels and cards from the Civil War period, as well as some pictures for children, a few photographs of scenery and animals, and a few valentines. Also included is an envelope inscribed to Miss Bellknapp from W[illia]m Myers, 1910; and copies of the inscription on the flyleaf of a copy of Thomas Jefferson's...
Dates: 1782-1934.

Kathleen Jacklin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1470
Scope and content Papers include research files on Anna Botsford Comstock; research files on manuscript collections relating to China and Chinese students at Cornell; research files on Sarah Cooper; checklists of manuscript collections at Cornell relating to the West Indies, to the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, to temperance, to architecture, and to Theodore Roosevelt; and information about cataloging and processing guidelines for the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. Also photographs of...
Dates: 1861-2004.

New York State miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937745]
Identifier: 962
Scope and content Collection includes Phinney's Calendar or western almanac (issues for 1836, 1860, and 1862); chapbooks containing stories for children (12 items, 1800s); broadsides concerning the New Berlin Academy (1845, 1846, and 1866); undated 19th-century valentines, most of them made by hand with manuscript text; two indentures, one for land in the town of Cincinnatus, Cortland County (1817), the other for land in the town of Pittsfield, Otsego County (1824); and pamphlet Leslie's Short and easy method...
Dates: circa 1817-circa 1866.

Valentine collection

 Collection
Identifier: 7718
Abstract

A variety of commercially produced postcards and greeting cards for the occassion of Valentine's Day, February 14. Included are clapsaddle postcards (one with a girl making a quilt reads "St. Valentine's Greeting, Woman's sphere is in the home"); three-dimensional German cards from the early 1900's; and valentines from the 1960's through 1980 saved by Gladys Coughlan, a woman in Alberta, Canada.

Dates: [ca. 1900-2004]