Postcard
Signal Flag Valentine
| Valentine's Day postcard featuring a cherub with a pink sash. The cherub is raising a line of signal flags up a flagpole. In the upper left conrner is the text: "To My Valentine Cupid knows what I would say, So he is signalling to-day, that I love you which is true, Answer that you love me too." At the foot is a key to the meaning of each flag. Chromolithograph with gold metallic ink. |
| Image ID: | 125697 |
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| Creation Date: | 02 14 1910 |
| Creator Name: | Ernest Nister, London |
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| Collection Name: | Greeting card collection, circa 1850-1982 |
| Genre: | Postcard |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6013, Fldr 55 |
| Original Dimensions: | 3.5 x 5.5 inches |
| No. 1564, Printed in Bavaria, (distributed by) E.P. Dutton & Co. New York. Mailed on February 14th, 1910. |
| Ephemera |
| Greeting cards |
| Valentines |
| Nudity |
| Flags |
| Angels |
| Signs and symbols |
| Water |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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