This title page, from the January 1900 issue of The Delineator magazine features the title and date of the magazine and an illustration of a Victorian lady modelling a Ladies’ Theatre Waist and skirt. She is also wearing a velvet hat decorated with plumes and roses. The lady is standing between two torches that are…
Vintage New Year Postcard
This vintage New Year postcard features an illustration of four leaf clovers clustered together with a wishbone. A peaceful scenic view framed by a scalloped design is to the right of the four leaf clovers. A strip of red ribbon runs diagonally on the left and the right of the message on the card. The…
A Joyous Christmas Victorian Card
This vintage Christmas greeting card titled A Joyous Christmas features an illustration of an elegantly dressed Victorian couple arriving to the front entrance of a house. It appears they are arriving for a visit, or perhaps a Christmas party. A lady, in a fancy Victorian dress, has opened the front door to welcome the couple…
The Birds Christmas Tree Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard titled The Birds Christmas Tree features an illustration of a few birds, including a blue jay, perched on a small Christmas tree directly outside a house window. Several more birds are enjoying bird food set out for them on the wooden platform supporting the birds Christmas tree. Two children, a boy and…
Vintage Christmas Advertisements
Here are three vintage Christmas advertisements. Each of the vintage magazine ads promotes products to be purchased as Christmas gifts. The first ad is for Appleton’s Stratford-on-Avon Shakespeare, issued in 12 artistic volumes, bound in half-morocco with gilt tops, uncut edges, and a gallery of illustrations of famous Shakespearean players reproduced in photogravure. In 1897,…
Dolly Dingle and Sammy Vintage Paper Dolls
A popular series of Dolly Dingle paper dolls, by Grace Drayton, was a regular feature in the Pictorial Review magazine in the early 1900s. This page, from the January 1922 issue of the Pictorial Review magazine is titled Dolly Dingle and Sammy Go Skating. Included on the page are the Dolly Dingle and Sammy paper…
Sparrows Christmas Tree Vintage Story
The following vintage school book pages tell an interesting story of The Sparrows Christmas Tree. The lesson tells of worms eating the leaves of shade trees in several parks in the great city of New York. Sparrows were brought from overseas to control the worms. Bessie was a young girl who lived with her family…
Victorian Christmas Advertising Cards Jewelers
Here are two beautifully designed Victorian Christmas advertising cards. The cards were created for the Christmas season, for Wait Bros. Jewelers of Ravenna, Ohio. Each of the cards features a lovely floral cluster of roses and daisies on a light grayish blue background. Both cards include the wording: Merry Christmas, Compliments of Wait Bros., Jewelers,…
Autumn Leaf Design Vintage Image
The following vintage book pages feature a beautiful embroidered autumn leaf design. The first of the pages describes the design as applied to an appliqued piano scarf. The second page illustrates the autumn leaf design created in a Mosaic embroidery or plush applique work on a piano scarf. Here is a black and white clip…
Vintage Map of South America
The free image I’m sharing with you today is in response to a recent request I had for a vintage map of South America. Some of the countries included on this map of South America are: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, Paraguay and Uruguay. I scanned the original map from a…
Vintage Tart and Tartlet Recipes
These cookbook pages, naturally yellowed with age, feature a variety of vintage tart and tartlet recipes. Included on the pages are old-fashioned sweet recipes for: Almond Cheesecakes, Apple Cheesecakes, Apple Tarts, Bakewell Tarts, Cherry Tartlets, Chocolate Tartlets, Coffee Eclairs, Custard Tartlets, Damson Tarts and Flan of Apples. More of the recipes included on the pages…
Vintage Christmas Postcards
Here are two vintage Christmas postcards. The first postcard features a simple but beautiful illustration of a snowy country scene with barren trees in the foreground and snow-covered buildings in the background. To the right of this scenic view is the message, “The seasons’ greeting of love and good cheer”. A small, vivid red poinsettia…
