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Holiday Card

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

["Remember me" Handmade Valentine], February 14, 1890

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: 5316.1264
Description

White handmade valentine with blue bow and small "Remember me" with blue asters, symbolic for love and patience. Date written on card "Feb 14, 1890"

Dates: February 14, 1890

[Silver and Gold with 2 Children Valentine], 1890s

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 5316.1279
Description

Silver, gold, and white valentine with 2 children in center. Inside: sketch of building and bird holding letter with "The love that is true love can never depart, but will spring ever new from the front of the heart, and such is the love, fond, faithful, and pure, that for you I shall cherish, while life shall endure."

Dates: 1890s

Sweet Melodies by James Russell Lowell, 1890s

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 5316.1280
Description

Sweet Melodies by James Russell Lowel booklet. Cover has floral background with fan and an image of building in the snow. Inside: multi-page poem. On back "O. L." Published by Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd., Publishers to the Queen (London, Paris, New York) and printed in Germany.

Dates: 1890s

["True to Thee" Pansy Valentine], 1890

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 5316.1263
Description

Blue, gold, and white valentine. In center: blue, purple, and yellow pansies, note "True to Thee". Inside: print of boy and girl with poem, "Dear little friend, I send you here with heart sincere, a loving line; and it will be a joy to me, to get from you a Valentine."

Dates: 1890

["With affection and regard" Cupid riding a Swan Valentine], 1892

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 5316.1271
Description Pink and gold valentine. On front: "With affection and regard" and Cupid with swan on a leash. The swan is associated with intuition, spirituality, sensitivity, transformation, and peacefulness. Swans pair for years or for life, so the swan is an apt messenger of love. Daisies signify innocence and modesty. Inside: boy holding banner with "Never, O' never doubt my true heart, though we may linger far, far apart! Day thought and night dream, thou art to me-- All my life's pathways lead me to...
Dates: 1892