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Rare Books and Special Collections Greeting Card Collection
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Rebus Valentines

The Rebus Valentines sub-subseries consists of printed valentines that contain puzzles or cryptographic messages that the recipient must decipher. This can include messages written in hieroglyphics or hidden in endless knots.

Christmas cards, 1970

File consists of 17 Christmas cards dating from 1970. Many include winter scenes and traditional Christmas scenes, including Santa Claus and ice skating. One pictorial card depicts Le Cartier building. One card is a puzzle. Cards producers and artists include Helen Oxenbury, Georg Jenson, Arne Larsen, Elizabeth Falconer, National Ballet of Canada, Editions Belvedere, and the Parnassus Gallery.

Scrapbooks

The Scrapbooks sub-subseries contains a full scrapbook of publisher’s samples, as well as individual scrapbook pages with multiple attached cards that have been extracted from a book. The cards in these scrapbook pages usually include a bulk price per dozen and instructions from the publishers, such as to specify the desired message inside the card. There are some pages that may be from a personal scrapbook as the cards pasted inside it are signed by a sender.

Christmas cards, 1971

File consists of 17 Christmas cards dating from 1971. Many include winter scenes and traditional cultural and religious Christmas scenes, including Santa Claus, mothers and children, mistletoe, Christmas trees, etc. Cards producers and artists include Grandma Moses, Queens University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gordon Fraser, the Canadian Save the Chidlren Fund, and Oxfam.

Christmas cards, 1972

File consists of 9 Christmas cards dating from 1972. Many include winter scenes and traditional cultural and religious Christmas scenes, including mistletoe, gifts, Santa Claus, and three Magi. Cards producers include Hallmark and Walters Gallery. One card with "American First" message, marked "Paul Revere, Patriot".

Sentimental Valentines

The Sentimental Valentines sub-subseries consists of cards, handmade or manufactured, in which a long, sentimental poem is the main feature. The cards range in terms of format and style. They may be elaborately decorated by hand with several materials, or simple printed on cardstock. They are usually illustrated with allegorical images or stock illustrations of couples, mythology or landscapes. Some of the cards have handwritten messages professing one’s love for the recipient. They are excellent examples of Victorian sentimentality and 19th century poetic verse.

Greeting Card Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 1190
  • Collection
  • [1790?]-1980s

Collections consists of holiday greeting cards. Description is forthcoming and will be published as it becomes available.

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