Scans of 1950s kids' Valentine's Day cards

James D. Kimberlin says:

This is a flickr set of 1950's Valentines Day Cards that I scanned. I'm an avid garage saler who came across 4 large scrap books of cards. I have been wanting to use them for a project and have finally gotten around to scanning them.

They include Valentine's Day, Easter, Christmas and Birthday cards, all dating from the 1950s. The scrapebooks are from a set of twin boys Vin (Elvin) and Don. There are some great classic cards in the set. I cleaned them all up and silo'd them.

Please feel free to download any and all and share them. I also Have higher res versions of most of them, so if anyone needs those Please feel free to contact me.

Also, I have a large assortment of Other cards, Easter, Birthday etc. if anyone is interested.

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• [RugerRedhawk]

  Today a kid would get suspended for having a picture of a gun with them and the company that made the card would be sued for causing the ‘virginia tech massacre’.

• [Emma]

  For all you guy geeks out there who have no idea what to get a girl for Valentines Day, here are the top ten gifts you want to avoid, including the book by Jenna Jameson “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star”: http://www.buzzillions.com/valentines

• [Rinchen]

  Thanks for sharing. The colors are vivid, unlike the stuff made today!
  What does silo mean?

• [SednaBoo]

  One vote for scanning the Hallowe’en cards!

• [Sarah Neptune]

  “Ah shot yoo ‘n cut out yer heart with mah knife! Happy St Valentine’s Day, darlin’!”

• [Takuan]

  he IS dressed for a Pastafarian rant alright

• [jimtealiii]

  silo = silhouette

  He removed the background so the art stands alone.

• [jimtealiii]

  Nice to see Valentines without licensed cartoon characters.

• [sonipitts]

  That pirate is seriously loaded for bear. He(She?)’s got a carving knife, a handgun and a sword. Dunno who pissed him or her off, but boy are they in some serious shit.

• [KlokWerk]

  “Be my valentine… OR ELSE!” :)

• [Antinous]

  I ♥ the underage transvestite weightlifter.

• [the specialist]

  THANK YOU FOR THIS POST! i am in first grade again, falling head over for little Paula!!

  YOu maDe MY weEk!
  (note to self: add to favorites.)

  Please scan ‘em all! We all need some warm/fuzzy. I vote these replace unicorns!!

• [Jeff]

  Nothing says Be My Valentine like a cross-dressing kid with gun and a knife and a sword!

• [Drapeau06]

  I’m really impressed that the publisher released these images into the public domain. Kudos to them!

• [Art]

  I remember these because I was in grammar school in the 50′s.

  These illustrations are wonderful and represent a great but lost commercial art form and era.

  Thank you for the post.

• [ZzmeeY]

  When I was a kid, the pictures like that made me nervous :)