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Valentine's Day Card 01 - Must I Confess - 1884

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Title
•Must I confess? Aye, if I can, ...
Summary
•Print shows a young girl, full-length portrait, facing front, holding up a fan to shield her face from Cupid kneeling on a wall on the right, with a flowering tree in the background.
Names
•Obpacher Brothers, printer
•Obpacher Brothers, copyright claimant
Created / Published
•New York : By Obpacher Bros., New York, [1884]
Headings
•- Women--Clothing & dress--1880-1890
•- Fans (Accessories)--1880-1890
•- Cupids--1880-1890
Headings
•Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
•Valentines--1880-1890.
Genre
•Valentines--1880-1890
•Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890
Notes
•- P18185 U.S. Copyright Office.
•- Title from item.
•- Caption continues: Hiding my blushes in this fan; / My heart is lost, perhaps mislaid / And I a most unhappy maid. / Dear cupid, be this penance mine, / To send the thief a Valentine. With my Love.
•- Printed on lower left: No. 1113.
•- Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on item.
•- Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on verso.
•- Stamped on verso: Library of Congress City of Washington. Copyright Nov 4 1884.
•- Inscribed in pencil on verso: 18185P.
•- Card is broken across the top with some loss to the title.
•- Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Source Collection
•Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress)
Repository
•Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
•pga 14122 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.14122
LCCN Permalink
•https://lccn.loc.gov/2016651876