IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 214721 accession number: P.14411-R-L1 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Tuesday 14 February 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Loose inside the fly-leaf of album P.14411-R, containing valentines from the collection of J.W.L. Glaisher. Newspaper cutting from the _Sunday Pictorial_. Short article titled: BACK TO VALENTINES / Week-end Rush for Love Tokens Surprises Shops / MIDDLE-AGE SENTIMENT. Outlines the rise of simple, hand-painted cards and notepaper and comic valentine postcards. Hand-written date in black ink on the verso: FEB 15. 1925. See also Frank Staff for the mid-1920s revival of valentines: 'The revival made news, and many a newspaper devoted a column to it. _The Daily Telegraph_ in its issue dated February 18, 1926, had this to say: An Amusing Revival / It is unfortunate that Feb. 14, that famous festival of birds and lovers, falls on a Sunday, since this year sees, after so long an interval, the revival of the valentine. ...'. Staff, _The Valentine & Its Origins_, p. 119. title: newspaper cuttings LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/214721 TECHNIQUES ---------- letterpress CATEGORIES ------ category: album category: archive document DATING ------ creation date: 1925 - 1925 creation date earliest: 1925 creation date latest: 1925 culture: 19th Century