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To my valentine. By dandelion post I send this valentine to my friend illegible monogram
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Print shows a young girl blowing on a dandelion that has gone to seed. On verso is a hollyhocks stem with blossoms and the message "St. Valentine's Day."
N20939 U.S. Copyright Office.
Caption continues: May every flying seedlet be a messenger of love to thee.
Signed on stone with monogram on lower right: EHB or FHB or HHB.
Copyright statement printed on lower right corner.
Publication date based on copyright statement on item.
Copyright stamp with date and number appear on verso.
Copyright number inscribed in pencil: 20939N.
Inscribed in pencil on upper left of verso: 1329 Des. 4.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.
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