The collection consists of a section of 32,000 Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards by major publishers of the day.

[4] Another section of the collection includes 450 Valentine's Day cards dating from the early 19th century, which Seddon also catalogued.

[5] The cards vary from loving to crude and show a different side to the Victorian values that might be expected.

Page's aim had been to avoid collections of press cuttings but to try to find writings, paintings, "the prints and scraps" which had been gathered together by "young ladies".

She decided to focus on early greeting cards from both the Victorian and Edwardian periods.