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Showing posts with label Valentine. Show all posts

February 23, 2013

50 Romantic Images of Young and Sweet Couples in Love During the 1930s and 1940s

You have to bear of these somewhat sappy images of couples being all lovey-dovey. The photographs show couples who were young and in love during the 1930s and 1940s. They are collected from the awesome archive of LIFE magazine.


It’s not just from the way they dressed or the way they did their hair, but something else about these photos sets lovers from decades past apart from couples of the present generation. Their dates and special moments seem more intimate, carefree, and maybe even stylish and classy in a way.

Take a look at some of these nostalgic moments of love in the selection below:










February 11, 2013

February 7, 2013

January 28, 2013

15 Unbelievably Racist Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards From the Early 20th Century

In the early 1900s, racist imagery was widely used in consumer products—even Valentine’s Day cards—and relied on caricatures and stereotypes to create humor...

Harvey Young, Jr., an Associate Professor at Northwestern gave a talk last year on racist V-Day ephemera and had this to say: “They capture in a material object the racial discourse occurring at the moment... You can really get a sense of how common and everyday and widely accepted these cards were. It gestures to this past moment when racism was more apparent in society.”










February 12, 2012

February 10, 2012

February 9, 2012

February 13, 2011



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