--- ---  # Fall in Love With These Vintage Valentine's Day Cards by [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) and [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) Feb 12, 2016 12:29 PM UTC  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1935. Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1935.ullstein bild—Getty Images by [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) and [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) Feb 12, 2016 12:29 PM UTC Though [light-up](http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Valentines-Card/) 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 century. [Read more about the history of Valentine’s Day here.](http://ti.me/1SEfhUO)  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1910. Transcendental Graphics—Getty Images  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1930. LCDM Universal History Archive—Getty Images  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1920. Popperfoto—Getty Images  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1910. Buyenlarge—Getty Images  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1900. Popperfoto—Getty Images  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1935. ullstein bild—Getty Images  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1906. Kean Collection/Archive Photos—Getty Images  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1909. Kean Collection/Archive Photos—Getty Images  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1915. Education Image/UIG—Getty Images  Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1907. GraphicaArtis—Getty Images Vintage Valentine's Day Cards: Fall in Love With These 10 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4217350/vintage-valentines/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4217350/vintage-valentines/"},"headline":"Fall in Love With These Vintage Valentine's Day Cards","datePublished":"2016-02-12T12:29:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:50:31.380Z","description":"They're a century old, but you can still feel the love","url":"https://time.com/4217350/vintage-valentines/","keywords":["photography","Valentine's Day","Holidays"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8727c0e6601d513c/69887d328e060165734648f2/160211-vintage-valentines-day-cards-06.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Liz Ronk","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8727c0e6601d513c/69887d328e060165734648f2/160211-vintage-valentines-day-cards-06.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Vintage Valentine's Day Card","caption":"Vintage Valentine's Day card circa 1935.","creditText":"ullstein bild—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4217350/vintage-valentines/","name":"Fall in Love With These Vintage Valentine's Day Cards"}}]}] ```