- “I’ve taken to the benches at Vicksburg.” Call Number: PI/1992.0001 (MDAH Collection)
This postcard is also from the Cooper Postcard Collection.
Other Valentine’s Day posts from around the blogosphere:
- Love letters are featured on the Smithsonian Collections Blog.
- On the National Museum of American History blog, there is a special proposal story in honor of Valentine’s involving Dorothy’s ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz and they posted a Civil War valentine on their Facebook page.
- The National Archives Prologue: Pieces of History blog posted links to several romantic photographs from NARA collections on their Facebook page and did a blog post about finding romance in records.