Broken heart valentine, ca. 1840
Item 4131 info
Maine Historical Society
Comic valentines, sometimes known as penny dreadfuls, as they sold for a penny and often had satiric verse, were popular in the 1840s.
They featured caricatures, or figures that looked like cartoon drawings.
This one reads: "Behold my broken heart, by affliction torn / I am pointed out by the finger of scorn / Pray come and marry me if you can / For I know I'm longing for a man."
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