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Will You Be Mine? An Exhibition of Early Valentines
URL: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/archives/15733.shtml

Description:
Small display of images of valentines from a "collection in honor of Esther Howland, a Mount Holyoke [College] alumna credited with having established the commercial valentine industry in the United States. ... The exhibit contains a selection of original valentines made by her New England Valentine Co., as well as some by George TC. Whitney, the designer who bought Howland's increasingly popular company in the early 1880's." From Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections.

LII Topics: Holidays and Observances Individually, Valentine's Day

Publisher:
Mount Holyoke College

LII Database Information:
Record 27413 created by Jennifer English on 12/08/2008
Last modification on 01/27/2009
Published: 02/05/2009  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27413

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