1. Higgins determines to send... (Image)
Title
1. Higgins determines to send... (Image)
Description
The previous image depicted Harper’s Weekly’s continual Valentine’s Day propaganda. Henkin suggests it to be a theme of the publication’s as an effort to “defend the “Valentine mania” against cynicism in 1859” and offers other examples of their yearly Valentine’s Day imagery. Here we find another, the second in this weekly serial, published the week after Valentine’s Day. The image draws straight back to Henkin’s “Valentine’s Mania” and how the demand to send Valentine’s outweighed the postal service’s capacity to send them. Yet, Harper’s in both instances subverts the cynicism of a holiday by focusing instead on the positive result of the lover’s embrace. Even noting, in this image, the final station as “The Happy Result”. The Happy Result of engaging in the epistolary trend that would continue to grow.
Creator
Source
Archives and Special Collections
Publisher
Calgary: University of Calgary
Date
Contributor
Semchuk, Sydney
Rights
http://library.ucalgary.ca/copyright/images
Language
English
Type
Image
Physical Dimensions
Print Publication
Files
Citation
Harper's Weekly, “1. Higgins determines to send... (Image) ,” University of Calgary Class Projects, accessed November 7, 2024, https://test.omeka.ucalgary.ca/document/144.