I think these cards by the Gibson Art Co. are all well-intentioned, though I'm not sure all the Dutch humor cards were.  In some cases t...

It turns out that books were used with some frequency as a marketing tool on trade cards in the 1880s to promote all things unrelated, inclu...

Here are some very ornate homemade valentines. One has a date of 1869 on the back and another has a date of 1864. I assume the others are fr...