This vintage postcard (circa 1910) is embossed with a sprig of yellow roses on a dark blue watercolor background. Even though it reads, Best Wishes To My Valentine, this card may have been sent as friendly holiday greeting, because yellow flowers are meant to symbolize friendship. We have reprinted this beautiful Victorian roses postcard on […]
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Vintage Valentine Greetings Postcard
This vintage Valentine postcard is from the early 1900s – the Edwardian era. It’s a simple card featuring a portrait of a young woman and simply wishing Valentine Greetings. Personally, I find the rose tones that run throughout this picture to be particularly lovely.
Vintage Valentine’s Day Postcard with Love Poem
This 1900s romantic postcard for Valentine’s Day features a beautiful, young woman holding a bunch of pink flowers and a love poem surrounded by a border of blue hearts and forget-me-nots. The love poem to his darling reads: Oh! Would I were the flower that sips The honied kisses from your lips. My Darling Valentine […]
Vintage Valentine Love Postcard with Poem
This turn of the century Love postcard features a Valentine poem from a woman (presumably) in a big, red heart. The poem, which is sort of funny, but also sort of sad, reads: To my Valentine You tell me others are more fair And wittier and wiser too. What matters it. I do not care […]
Currier and Ives Shop Front Vintage Postcard
The Currier and Ives Shop Front vintage postcard shows the store front at 115 Nassau St. in New York City around 1875, and the people in the doorway are believed to be the lead print operator Daniel Logan, and his son. The postcard shows the headquarters of the famous duo, Nathanial Currier and James Ives, […]
Currier and Ives Lithograph – The Village Blacksmith
This Currier and Ives lithograph, The Village Blacksmith, shows a country village scene in summertime. If you look closely, you can see a man inside the blacksmith shop working hard in the foundry while another blacksmith works away at the anvil outside. The village blacksmith was an important role in any town in the 1800s […]
Currier and Ives Lithograph – The Cares of a Family
This Currier & Ives lithograph called, The Cares of a Family, shows a family of quail in a meadow with soft summer light. For the Currier & Ives firm, documenting the experiences of 1800s America included pastoral nature scenes that the Victorian buying public loved for framing and placing in dining or living rooms. The […]
Currier and Ives Lithograph – Mountain Pass
This Currier & Ives lithograph called, Mountain Pass, is a colorful image of rugged Western American mountain wilderness. With mountain peaks, pine trees, a bear, rapids a stream, and a Native American brave in the upper right, it shows the wilderness that many people from the Eastern United States only read about or saw in […]
Currier and Ives Lithograph – The Great Chicago Fire
This Currier and Ives lithograph shows The Great Chicago Fire, on October, 8, 1871. This lithograph is violent and dramatic and today one may wonder why this event was captured as art. At that time, a firm like Currier & Ives often worked in a journalistic manner providing lithographic images to newspapers. There were no […]
Currier and Ives Lithograph – The Mississippi in Time of Peace
The 1800’s saw the emergence of steam ships as a viable means of transportation. This wonderful Currier & Ives lithograph, The Mississippi in Time of Peace, not only captures the romance of the Mississippi River on a warm summer’s evening, but also shows a variety of ships that frequented its waters at the time, which […]