The first commercial Valentine's Day card created and produced by Esther Howland, an 1847 graduate of Mount Holyoke College and a contemporary of Emily Dickinson. She was 19 at the time.
Happy Valentine's Day!
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Happy Valentine's to you too!
Man, Esther doesn't look too happy there...
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