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Puzzle purses
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Dimensional and mechanical greeting cards
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The cards in these folders are very delicate and have mechanical or paper levers that fold out or move to reveal images behind layers of paper.
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Valentine puzzles
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The Nancy and Henry Rosin collection of valentine, friendship, and devotional ephemera contains materials from Europe and North America dating from 1493 to the late 2010s. The bulk of the collection consists of greeting cards exchanged on Valentine’s Day, dating from approximately 1840 to 1930. Early handcrafted valentine cards found within the greeting cards subseries demonstrate folk art methods of pinpricking, paper cutting, paper folding, painting, puzzle making, and illustration. Other cards dating from the Victorian era include comic or “vinegar” valentines, paper lace valentines, cobweb valentines, and cards created by various printing, embossing, and assemblage techniques. Many of the late 19th-century cards are dimensional and mechanical paper constructions, made with a combination of die-cut scraps, honeycomb tissue paper, and levers, strings, or wheels that enable the cards to pop-up or move. Also included in the collection are greeting cards exchanged for other holidays and events, friendship cards dating from the Biedermeier era, friendship albums with locks of hair, language of flowers almanacs and booklets, matrimonial documents, sachets, verse writers, religious devotional items, mourning cards, scrapbook albums, and correspondence relating to love and courtship. The collection also contains artifacts and three-dimensional items such as fans, jewelry boxes, shadow boxes, and additional items, some of which include fragile, glass components. Smaller portions of the collection include educational ephemera, such as rewards of merit and bookmarks, and American Civil War ephemera, such as greeting cards and song sheets. Additional materials include artist and organizational files relating to illustrator Catherine “Kate” Greenaway, printer Louis Prang, and 20th-century greeting card companies Rust Craft and Norcross. The last series of this collection contains research materials compiled by valentine scholar Charles Albert Reed and by Nancy Rosin. The materials consist largely of secondary sources, notes, and newspaper clippings.
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Cut-paper work
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Folder includes very delicate and fragile valentines made through paper-cutting techniques. Includes Scherenschnitte and silhouette works.
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Audio messages and recordings
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Folder contains 45 RPM records of recorded messages.
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A Lady's Dressing Case
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Folder includes images of dressing cases with cut-out tabs that lift to reveal text.
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Subseries G. Scrapbooks and albums
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This subseries consists of scrapbooks, sample books, and albums relating to Valentine's Day. The albums vary from containing samples of paper lace valentines, cobweb valentines, comic valentines, or albums with scrap materials. Also included are personalized albums owned by individuals who collected valentines.
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