Victorian Valentines: Intimacy in the Industrial Age

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Article

Publication Date

7-25-2017

Publication Title

American Antiquarian Society

Abstract

This exhibition is the result of collaboration between members of a Smith College art history course, ARH291: Be My Valentine - Ephemera, Ephemerality, and Affect from the Victorian Era to Today, taught by Professor Laura Kalba and the American Antiquarian Society. Focusing on a largely unprocessed collection of Valentine's Day cards held at AAS as well as a variety of online tokens, from memes to emojis, the course explored connections between nineteenth-century print ephemera and the ephemerality of images in the digital era.

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Contributors to exhibition:

Anna Jacobs

Emma Raleigh

Kristina Bush

Lanah Swindle

Lauren Reeves

Sunny Betz

Sally Stack

Zoe Margolis

Clara Rosenberg

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