Here is a vintage image of a girl seated on a windowsill of an open window. She is picking flowers from a beautiful vine that is growing around the window. The image is from Wild Flowers from Whittier, 1909. Click on image to enlarge.
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Storybook
The adorable illustrations of an elephant, a mouse and a fairy that I’ve used to create this digital collage sheet are from the story, An Island Fable, from the December 1898 issue of St. Nicholas magazine. Here is a version with the wording removed. Click on images to enlarge. The full three-page story is available as a free [...]
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This three-page story, An Island Fable, with adorable illustrations of an elephant, a mouse and a fairy is from the December 1898 issue of St. Nicholas magazine. I think the moral of the story is wonderful: “Let each be himself, not somebody else, Nor covet what others may hold. Each one has his place, That he can [...]
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This pretty illustration and old fashioned poem The Wedding Bells is from the book Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway, circa 1892. Click on image to enlarge.
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I just love this vintage illustration of two young Victorian girls out for a stroll down their storybook path! I wonder what the empty basket is for. Flowers, perhaps? The image is from the antique children’s book A Day in a Child’s Life by Kate Greenaway, circa 1881. Click on image to enlarge.
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It isn’t the season for tulips for many of us but I couldn’t wait until spring to share this pretty image! These beautifully illustrated flowers are from the antique storybook A Day in a Child’s Life by Kate Greenaway, circa 1881. Click on image to enlarge.
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This is another page from the antique school lesson book, Our Little Book for Little Folks, 1896. It’s part of a lesson on fruit and nuts (I uploaded the image page from the lesson this morning). I cleaned up the image page of fruit and nuts in Photoshop but I love the grungy look of the lesson pages so [...]
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This pretty floral wreath is from the antique storybook A Day in a Child’s Life by Kate Greenaway, circa 1881. I’ve included a version with the title of the book intact and one with the title removed. Click on images to enlarge.
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This vintage storybook image, Miss Molly and the Little Fishes, is from Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway, 1892. Click on image to enlarge.
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This dapper frog is going out wooing! The image is from Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes by McLoughlin Brothers, circa 1900. Click on image to enlarge.
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