Description: Valentine card with the name "Johnnie" on the back, 1940. The card features a rabbit with the message "I'm all ears--say you'll be my valentine!" On the reverse is a printed poem reading, "Don't hesitate--don't make me wait/ Give me a sure sign/ That your heart's true/ and that you too/ Will be my Valentine." Early American Valentine cards were handmade, and it wasn't until the mid-1800s that cards began to be manufactured on a larger scale. By the 1940s, colorful Valentines like the one seen here were mass produced for the public, often with "mechanical" pieces that moved and humorous messages to the recipient. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: E14_valentine_02_01
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Valentines; Holidays; Correspondence;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Valentine card written to Thelma Armintrout of Piketon, Ohio, from Norma Risner, 1941. The card design shows a female squash with moveable binoculars, with the message "Looking For Someone To SQUASH Me Close." Early American Valentine cards were handmade, and it wasn't until the mid-1800s that cards began to be manufactured on a larger scale. By the 1940s, colorful Valentines like the one seen here were mass produced for the public, often with "mechanical" pieces that moved and humorous messages to the recipient. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: E14_valentine_01
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Valentines; Holidays; Correspondence;
Places: Piketon (Ohio); Pike County (Ohio)
 

Description: Valentine card signed "from Anna Miller" and dated 1942. The cut-out card features a boy with rosy cheeks in a cowboy costume. He holds a lasso with a message inside reading, "You can't escape this--You're my Valentine!" Early American Valentine cards were handmade, and it wasn't until the mid-1800s that cards began to be manufactured on a larger scale. By the 1940s, colorful Valentines like the one seen here were mass produced for the public, often with "mechanical" pieces that moved and humorous messages to the recipient. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: E14_valentine_03
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Valentines; Holidays; Correspondence;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Valentine to an unknown recipient, addressed from Vernon Dale Schilling of Pike County, Ohio. The card features a daydreaming boy with the message, "Dear Valentine, If my dream of love comes true/ Someday you will say 'I DO.'" Early American Valentine cards were handmade, and it wasn't until the mid-1800s that cards began to be manufactured on a larger scale. By the 1940s, colorful Valentines like the one seen here were mass produced for the public, often with "mechanical" pieces that moved and humorous messages to the recipient. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: E14_valentine_04
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Valentines; Holidays; Correspondence;
Places: Pike County (Ohio)
 

Description: Valentine card to Thelma Jane Armintrout from Jesse E. Shy, both of Piketon, Ohio, 1938. The card features a boy and girl seated on a moveable raft with the message, "What a raft of fun we'd have if you'd be my Valentine." Early American Valentine cards were handmade, and it wasn't until the mid-1800s that cards began to be manufactured on a larger scale. By the 1940s, colorful Valentines like the one seen here were mass produced for the public, often with "mechanical" pieces that moved and humorous messages to the recipient. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: E14_valentine_05
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Valentines; Holidays; Correspondence;
Places: Piketon (Ohio); Pike County (Ohio)
 

Description: Valentine card with the name "Dorothy" on the back, 1939. The card features a duck with a moveable wing, and the message, "You can't duck this one, I'm your Valentine!" Early American Valentine cards were handmade, and it wasn't until the mid-1800s that cards began to be manufactured on a larger scale. By the 1940s, colorful Valentines like the one seen here were mass produced for the public, often with "mechanical" pieces that moved and humorous messages to the recipient. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: E14_valentine_06
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Valentines; Holidays; Correspondence;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Pink, white, green and gold Valentine card with the phrase "Devoted to You" below an image of a woman's face. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07957
Subjects: Valentines; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Holidays; Greeting cards
 

Description: Valentine card with an embracing couple in the center and an open volume with a poem, "The wealth I prize!," below. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07958
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Holidays; Valentines
 

Description: Valentine card comprised of red, blue and silver paper in the shape of a circle with leaves forming corners overlayed with a piece of white cut paper. Card is adorned with paper cut outs of blue flowers and a young girl pulling a wagon in the center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07959
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Valentines; Greeting cards
 

Description: The John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV329_B28F12_01
Subjects: Glenn, John, 1921-2016; Kennedy, Ethel, 1928-; Valentines