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Rare Books and Special Collections Greeting Card Collection
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Framed early Valentines

Sub-series consists of seven eighteenth and nineteenth century Valentine's Day cards and prints. Most date sometime from the early to mid-nineteenth century Valentines cards or prints. One Valentine dates from approximately 1790. Prints and cards have been framed.

Valentine's cards

Series consists of greeting cards, prints, and ephemera celebrating St. Valentine's Day. Items date from between approximately 1790 to the late twentieth century.

Valentine signed by Jacob Mercker

Hand-coloured printed Valentine featuring vignette with two figures surrounded by cherubs and crane. With fold-out piece featuring image of the Three Graces with German text printed behind it. Verso contains printed explanatory text. Verso contains name of cards addressee and sender (Jacob Mercker) handwritten.

Comic Valentines

The Comic Valentines sub-subseries contains 55 cards printed on cheap paper and are typically hand-coloured. The Comic Valentines sub-subseries consists of single-page greeting cards with woodcut images representing several stereotypes, usually poking fun at someone’s profession or appearance. They typically contain a woodcut caricature of the recipient and a short and usually offensive poem. Comic valentines, sometimes referred to insult valentines or vinegar valentines, were given to either poke fun at a friend or to offend someone who was very disliked. People who received these types of cards rarely kept them, therefore all the comic valentines featured in this series are blank and like stationer’s stock.

Stationer's Scraps

The Stationer's Scraps sub-subseries is comprised of 15 scraps of card. These consist of individual pieces of cutout card that have either fallen off existing cards, or which were meant to be used by a cardmaker in the fabrication of greeting cards. They are excellent examples of the small details that were included in the decoration of cards during manufacturing.

Christmas cards, 1974

File consists of 23 Christmas cards dating from 1974. Many include winter scenes and traditional Christmas scenes, including Christmas train, toys, Christmas trees, and mothers and children. Cards producers and artists include Carlton Cards, Belvedere, Williams College, Iparművészeti Múzeum (Budapest), the Public Archives of Canada, and Hallmark.

Christmas cards, 1975

File consists of 19 Christmas cards dating from 1975. Many include winter scenes and traditional Christmas scenes, including the Nativity, red and green decorations, trees, and angels. Cards producers and artists include Grandma Moses, Carlton Cards, Meister Francke, St. Pantaleon Church, and Gertrud Wyss-Trachsel.

Christmas cards, 1977

File consists of approximately 153 Christmas cards dating from 1977. Many include winter scenes and traditional Christmas scenes, including Santa Claus, snowy landscapes, angels, mothers and children, birds, as well as images of various universities and libraries. Cards producers and artists include the University of Winnipeg, Simon Fraser University, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, the Museum of Modern Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, McGill Unviesrity, Acadia University, Hallmark, Metropolitan Artists, etc.

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