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Vinegar Valentine, circa 1900. Vinegar valentines were a type of cheeky postcard decorated with a caricature and insulting poem. A lampoon of Valentine's Day cards, the unflattering novelty items enjoyed a century of popularity beginning in the 1840s during the Victorian era.
A dance engagements card in the form of a fan for 11 January 1887, showing a list of all the dances for the evening – valse , polka, lancers, and quadrille; opposite each dance is a space to record the name of the partner for that dance. After the event the card was probably kept as a souvenir of the evening
Pope Joan or Pope, a once popular Victorian family game, is an 18th-century English round game of cards for three to eight players derived from the French game of Matrimony and Comete [1] and ancestor to Spinado and the less elaborate Newmarket. [2]
The RHS describes the 19th century photographic calling cards as the ‘original social media’. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
A Victorian Lady HN1277 A Victorian Lady (colorway red shawl, yellow blue dress) 1928 1938 HN1278 HN1279 Kathleen (red dress, dark blue hat and bow) Leslie Harradine 1928 1938 HN1280 Blue Bird Leslie Harradine 1927 1938 HN1281 Scotties HN1282 The Alchemist Leslie Harradine 1927 1938 HN1283 The Cobbler, 2nd version Charles J Noke 1928 1949 HN1284
Visiting card of Johann van Beethoven, brother of Ludwig van Beethoven. A visiting card, also called a calling card, was a small, decorative card that was carried by individuals to present themselves to others. It was a common practice in the 18th and 19th century, particularly among the upper classes, to leave a visiting card when calling on ...
[1] Whatever the name, the popular print format joined the photograph album as a fixture in the late 19th-century Victorian parlor. The reverse side of the card as seen above. Early in its introduction, the cabinet card ushered in the temporary disuse of the photographic album which had come into existence commercially with the carte de visite ...
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