May I be Your Valentine?

May I be Your Valentine?

Photographic greeting cards were a relatively new outlet for ambitious amateurs like Dorothy’s father, with this rich brown platinum print set off against a brown art paper mount complimentary to the hand-drawn sentiment along bottom margin. Pictured here is a young Dorothy Tucker, (1899-1986) with the card’s intended recipient being her cousin Katharine, her name penned on the card’s verso.

Charles Rollins Tucker, 1868-1956.

See our in-depth blog posts with links below: Revealed: C.R. Tucker: Restless Wanderer with a Camera, & Rescued: Dorothy Tucker: For the Love of a Daughter, to learn more.

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May I be Your Valentine?
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Dimensions

Image Dimensions11.6 x 8.9 cm corner glued to primary mount

Support Dimensions19.9 x 16.6 cm dark brown art paper mount

Print Notes

Recto: Titled in black ink along lower border of mount: May I be your Valentine?

Verso: Card addressee in black ink to upper margin of primary mount: For  Cousin Katharine | With Dorothys love.

 

 

Provenance

Purchased for this archive in 2010 from dealer in PA. The photograph had been owned by photographer Charles Rollins Tucker: 1868-1956, whose many works can be seen in this archive.