Here are two beautiful vintage illustrations of lilies. The first is a white arum lily showing a flower in full bloom and a leaf of the plant in the background. An arum lily is similar to a calla lily. The only difference (according to an internet search) is their size, with the arum lily growing…
Vintage Angel Food Cake Recipes
These three vintage cookbook pages feature recipes for angel food cakes and hints on mixing angel food cake. In addition to the basic angel food cake recipe, other recipes included on the pages are: Marble Angel Food Cake, Russian Roll, Chocolate Angel Food Cake and Tutti Frutti Angel Food Cake. One of the pages includes…
Their First Born Child
This lovely vintage engraving features a young man and woman admiring their adorable, happy, little baby. The baby, supported by mommy’s protective arms, is seated on a table in front of the loving parents. The baby is gently touching his or her mommy’s face with both hands. The art is titled Their First Born Child….
Vintage Botanical Illustrations Free Printables
I’ve spent many enjoyable hours this week (including a few hours borrowed from sleeping time) perusing, scanning, and retouching images from my antique Dictionary of Gardening books to assemble a set of vintage botanical illustrations for my Etsy shop. I scanned a few extra images to share with you today. They are, by their scientific…
American Beauty Red Rose
In addition to finding antique books and vintage ephemera for myself, I have a “team” of helpers. They are my four adult children who know what I like and they occasionally find vintage treasures for me when they are out and about. My daughter, son-in-law, and one of my sons went shopping garage sales together…
Junk Journals
In a couple of blog posts in 2017, I mentioned that I wanted to learn how to make junk journals. This is a show and tell of my junk journal making progress. I will post today’s free image in a separate blog post. My granddaughter, Ashley, loves Sherlock Holmes. In the fall of 2017, Ashley…
Birds Perched on Leafy Branch
Here is a vintage clip art illustration of five beautiful red and yellow birds perched on a leafy tree branch. The birds are: summer tanagers and hepatic tanagers. The illustration is by Louis Aggasiz Fuertes. I scanned the original image from the March – April 1918 issue of a magazine titled Bird-Lore. New in my…
Vintage Beach Fashion
These two magazine pages feature a fun article titled For Surf and Sands. The article discusses the latest sewing patterns for beach fashions, with suggestions for fabrics and colors, for the summer of 1900. Four illustrations of ladies and children on the beach are included on the pages. I scanned the original pages from the…
Call of the Swing Illustrated Poem
This vintage book page features an illustrated poem titled The Call of the Swing by Nancy Byrd Turner. The illustration is that of a beautiful, carefree, young lady swinging on an old fashioned rope swing that is fastened to a blossoming tree. The lady’s hair is in an up do and she is wearing an…
Vintage Fern Illustration
Here is a beautiful vintage illustration of a fern. The scientific name of the plant is: Nephrolepis Rufescens Var Tripinnatifida. I scanned the original image from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. The following three images are previews of new products I’ve added to my…
Vintage Butterflies and Congratulations Tracie
This vintage book page features twenty illustrations of colorful butterflies and moths. The name of each butterfly and moth is included above or below the illustrations. A few of the butterflies and moths included on the page are: Laertes Butterfly, Zebra Butterfly, Tiger Swallow Tail Butterfly, Goat Moth, Scarlet Tiger Moth, Monarch Butterfly, and Malachite…
Vintage Printable Magazine Ads
This digital collage sheet features a variety of five interesting vintage magazine advertisements from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Included on the page is an ad for Whiting’s writing paper, a garden seed ad, an advertisement for an artistic homes booklet, a nursing course ad and an ad for hair curlers. I have also…
