Valentine Card

Object/Artifact

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Goulbourn Museum

Name/Title

Valentine Card

Entry/Object ID

995.4.22.15

Description

One folded paper greeting card with the message, "Dear Teacher: could I be the apple of your eye? Cause I picked you for my Valentine." The front of the card is decorated with a large red apple, pencil and piece of lined paper printed with the Valentine greeting. Inside the card is a black and white floral and heart design on the top, on the bottom is the message, "Would it be against the rule - Just to ask you to be mine?" On the reverse of the card, hand written in graphite pencil is the message, "to teacher from Glen."

Context

Valentine card given to Mary Gamble when she was a school teacher in Alberta.

Made/Created

Date made

1945

Notes

Additional create date: 1946

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Valentine

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Card, Greeting

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

10 cm

Width

9.1 cm

Depth

0.1 cm

Dimension Notes

2015-12-05

Parts

Count

1

Material

paper - papier