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Esther Allan Howland who created lithographed valentines cards in 1847, placed her first ad in the Worcester paper, The Daily Spy, Feb. 5, 1850 for sales of Valentines Day cards. In 1881, she sold her business to the George C. Whitney Company, one of the nation's largest publishers of Valentine's Day cards.

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Consuelo Hauck

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