 Ostensibly given on Valentine's Day, the caricature and poem is about the "type" that the recipient belongs to—spinster, floozy, dude, scholar, etc.They enjoyed popularity from the 1840s to the 1940s.These cynical, sarcastic, often mean-spirited greeting cards were first produced in America as early as the 1840s by a variety of printing companies, including Elton, Fisher, Strong and Turner.