2,000 Valentine Cards Donated to Huntington Library

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New York Times today (Feb 14, 2018) at the Arts section:

(1) The first page (C1) of that section has a large teaser: 2,000 Little Pieces of the Heart. A vast collection of paper valentines, assembled over four decades, has been donated to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Some were produced as early 1680s. Article, page 2. "

(2) Eve M Kahn, Three Centuries of Ways to Say I Love You. at page C2.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/ ... ard-collection.html

My comment:
(a) Huntington Library was established in 1919 by Henry E Huntington, a railroad magnate, in City of San Marino, Los Angeles County. The city is named after Republic of San Marino (a speck surrounded by Italy; 301 AD - ).
(b) There is no need to read the text. Just view the valentines.
(c) The first valentine (in page C1 in print) is particularly neat. It takes me some time to realize what the photo means, whose left panel shows what the valentine looks like from top. Yet actually the center (whose boundary is a circle, that is a white circle) of valentine, that was like 剪纸艺术. One pulls the center up, and what is underneath the center is now on view: a little girl.