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Accession Number:2002-885.33
Accession Date:
Condition:good
Location:Photographic Archives, Greeting Cards, Box 1, F 17
Keywords:greeting card, ca 1918, valentine
Area of Origin:Mt.Vernon
Period:ca 1918
Category:Documentary Artifact
Object:Greeting Card
Maker:UK
Description/History:It is a square card with the illustratio of a boy in a red hat, green scarf, with a black umbrella and a letter. The verse reads " Valentine greeting, If you let me be your feller, I'll never need no rain-umbreller". It has a red paper border. Hand written on the back is "From your Old Maid Sister." It is a valentine given to Mary Ruth Johnson McShane (1909-2001) of Mt. Vernon during her school years from her older sister Georgia.
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