Though light-up letters and emailed cards may be recent inventions, the Valentine’s Day card is a long-standing tradition. Case in point: these—sometimes odd—Valentine’s Day cards from the early 20th ...

Valentine’s cards have been around since the 1700s. People handcrafted cards to exchange with loved ones. These intricately detailed cards often included sweet messages and poems. As time passed, the ...

Standing on her tip toes, Annie Laura Owens plucked a valentine card from the top of her revolving Christmas tree. It's a card she and her sister sent to their grandmother about 60 years ago. The tree ...

Valentine's Day is the second biggest seasonal card-selling occasion of year, behind only Christmas. Many of us remember decorating a shoebox or paper bag in grade school, hoping it would soon be ...

Valentine’s Day in school in the 1940s and 1950s meant a celebration with cards delivered to a student’s desk or a decorated box on the teacher’s desk. Sweet treats — especially the small, hard candy ...