Here is a vintage catalog advertisement for a flat-top, canvas-covered dress trunk. The trunk featured an iron bottom, iron center bands, malleable iron clamps, a strong lock and was paper lined. It was available in a variety of sizes, ranging from 28 to 40 inches. Each size was a different price. The lowest price for…
Art Deco Christmas Greeting Card
This vintage Christmas greeting card features an art deco design that includes a colorful top border with triangular shapes, pine cones and candles. The left hand side of the card is decorated with branches of holly and berries and a lit candle on a fireplace mantle. There is a pot of food cooking over a…
Vintage Puppy in Stocking Christmas Card
This vintage Christmas greeting card features an illustration of a bright red stocking with a green and white plaid toe and heel and yellow jingle bells sewn to the top front. The stocking is filled with an assortment of toys and candies and an adorable, happy, little puppy dog. The message on the inside of…
Vintage Embroidery Book Advertisement
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for a New Embroidery Book that presented unique ideas for Christmas Fancy Work. The book contained 130 illustrated pages, 16 new colored plates, instructions for beginners and the latest designs in doilies and centerpieces. It was available for ten cents from The Brainerd & Armstrong Co. of 146 Union…
Victorian Ladies Coat Illustration
This page features an illustration of a lovely Victorian lady looking through a large window onto a street that is busy with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages. The lady is modelling a full-length ladies’ long coat. She is positioned to show the side back view of the elegant coat, which has a tall, stiff collar and…
Vintage Christmas Children with Gifts
his vintage postcard features an illustration of two small children, a boy and a girl, both still in their white nighties, on Christmas morning. The girl has received the gift of a new doll in a red dress that she is cradling in her arms while she watches her brother take a toy pocket watch…
Vintage School Reader Printable
This printable winter and Christmas lesson from a vintage school reader features the words: popcorn, always, brought, hole, box, saved, rubbed, smell, glad and best. The lesson tells a story of two small mice, named Frolic and Frisk, having a discussion about the school children who attend the school room where Frolic lives. While admiring…
Church and Violets Vintage Illustration
This vintage Christmas postcard features an illustration of a serene church setting in the country. The roof of the church is covered by a heavy blanket of snow. It is dusk and warm lighting glows from a large window of the church. A rustic wooden fence, near the church, is partially buried under deep snow…
Victorian Girls Winter Fashion
This page features Victorian fashions for girls in the winter of 1900. An illustration on the upper portion of the page features two girls exchanging gifts. The girl on the left is wearing a pretty brown coat and large hat with a red brim and green bow. The girl on the right is wearing a…
Vintage Santa Carrying Bag of Toys
This vintage Christmas postcard features an illustration of an old-fashioned Santa Claus carrying a large bag of toys on his back. Santa is slightly bent over from the weight of the bag of toys. A nicely decorated Christmas tree with presents placed below is in the background. The message on the card is: A Merry…
Open Vintage Notebook with Lined Pages
This vintage notebook is opened to the center of a signature and shows three rows of thread stitching that fasten the signature to the spine of the booklet. Both pages, to the left and to the right, are lined and blank.
Vintage Country Winter Scene
This beautiful vintage postcard features an illustration of a cozy cottage in the country on a cold winter day. The roof of the cottage is covered in a thick blanket of snow and large, frozen icicles hang from the lower edges of the roof. The landscape and trees surrounding the home are also covered in…
