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While the first known Valentine’s Day card was printed in 1849 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the first commercially printed Valentine was released in 1913. Because of this, and to limit the scope of the history a bit to keep this short and sweet, I’ll be focusing on how Americans may have celebrated Valentine’s Day for the past 100 years.* Learn more about Valentine's Day love, rituals, and ancestral traditions throughout the ages and all around the world! Early 20th Century (1900s-1950s) Here’s a sweet selection of vintage Valentine’s Day cards from the 1900s and 1910s — little love notes people sent to each other by the millions around the early part of the twentieth century. Vintage Valentine card with ribbon The day before Valentine’s Day 1932, the Newcastle-based Evening Chronicle reported on the popularity of sending Valentine’s Day cards, a custom which it said had witnessed a recent revival. 13 Feb 1932, Sat Evening Chronicle (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England) Newspapers.com Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated every February 14; this year Valentine's Day falls on a Friday. and by 1900 printed cards began to replace written letters due to improvements in Turn of the 19th Century Valentine’s Day Trends. An 1899 Valentine’s Day trend was to send a valentine with a small object attached. One such Valentine’s Day card had an artificial violet and featured this poem: Roses are red, violets are blue; Sugar is sweet and so are you. So please accept this small bouquet That I have picked for you But if cards must be your thing, they can at least come with the vintage charisma of the early 1900s, thanks to The New York Public Library’s digital gallery. The era’s Valentine’s greetings come with a rather limited visual vocabulary — little girls, little boys, cupids, flowers, hearts. There is also the occasional playful delight: There are a million better ways to celebrate Valentine's Day than with a card—perhaps by revisiting the very first they can at least come with the vintage charisma of the early 1900s, With advances in printing, the 19th century brought printed Valentine’s Day cards and in 1913, Hallmark Cards printed their first cards, and Valentine’s Day was forever changed. Here are a few cards from 1913 – 1918 available for viewing at the Eagle Historical Society Museum. 1835 – 60,000 Valentine’s Day cards are sent in the UK. Even though sending letters and cards through the post was expensive in the UK at this time, 60,000 Valentine’s Day cards were sent. The custom of sending cards had become so popular that they were now produced in factories and decorated with fabric and lace. In 1840, British citizens mailed over 400,000 Valentine's Day cards. The classroom tradition of exchanging Valentine's cards started in the early 1900s. You could choose between creating your own handmade cards or purchasing pre-made ones, just like today. Today, you can find Valentine's cards in countless styles, from traditional romantic Austin Valentine’s Day Food & Drink Mozart’s Coffee Roasters Valentine’s Date Night. AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 University Ave, Austin, TX 78705; This group of figure skating Cupids posed for a photo before the show, which aired right after Valentine's Day on February 26, 1956. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. 7 1956. Etsy - Sellers on Etsy's vintage section offer more than 3,000 different Valentine's Day cards dating from the 1900s through the 1970s. Once again, the selection changes all the time, so it makes sense to snap something up if you see it. Ruby Lane - This online antiques mall carries a number of vintage greeting cards with a Valentine's Day Smithsonian’s National Postal blog: Love and Derision; Or, Valentine’s Day Victorian Style; Yallambie: Love Makes the World Go Round, About; History Extra: Victorian Valentine’s Day Cards; Wikipedia: Esther Howland; About.com: Cards for St. Valentine’s Day Became a Tradition in the 1800s The times are wrong, however. St Valentine’s Day in 1900 fell on a Wednesday, not a Saturday as described in the book. Similarly, Easter Sunday was on April 15th that year, not March 29th. The boarding school written about in the book is loosely based off Clyde Girls’ Grammar School in Melbourne, which the author attended. ON Valentine’s Day in 1900, a group of schoolgirls vanished at one of Australia’s creepiest locations. Strange things happen there. Candace Sutton. @candacesutton1. 4 min read. Download Image of Public Domain Images - Vintage Victorian Valentine. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Public Domain Vintage Postcard: Valentine’s Day Card, from the Early 1900s. High-Resolution Public Domain Image Illustrations.. Dated: 1900 - 1910. Topics: victorian, postcards, valentine day, vintage illustration, vintage, vintage postcards, valentine, valentines Written by Elizabeth Heffernan, RAHS Volunteer. On Valentine’s Day in 1900, two schoolgirls and their maths teacher went missing from a picnic at Hanging Rock and were never seen again – or so author Joan Lindsay led her readers to believe in the classic Australian novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, first published in 1967. Valentine’s Day: The day when hearts are stars (1904) Cleverly adapted timely ideas and games to suit the tradition of Valentine’s Day. The season of St Valentine is always full of novel ideas for the hostess, and some women have been clever enough to take advantage of it.
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