I’ve really been enjoying the Valentine’s Day posts coming my way through Facebook and Google Reader today from museums and archives. Here are few highlights:
The Morgan Library has an illustration of St. Valentine from The Hours of Catherine of Cleves.
The New Yorker celebrates the day with a post about the exhibit The Loving Story at the International Center of Photography (through May 6). It is made up of photographs, taken originally for Life Magazine, of Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving. Their interracial marriage lead to the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia, which struck down anti-miscegenation laws in 16 states.
The NYPL Digital Collection has dozens of great Valentine’s Day cards.
And my favorite: Wellesley has posted its collection of the love letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, written between January 1845 to September 1846.
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