The illustration on this vintage Christmas postcard is of two Victorian girls setting, or playing with, a cuckoo clock while their mother looks on from the doorway to another room. Since the girls are wearing pretty dresses, perhaps it is still the afternoon or early evening of Christmas Eve and the girls are setting the…
Alice in Wonderland Book Pages
Here are six random pages from an antique Alice in Wonderland book. Two of the pages include illustrations. They are: a giant Alice watching the white rabbit stomp off and Alice trying to play croquet with a flamingo and hedgehog. Here are black and white clip art versions of the illustrations of Alice watching the…
Vintage Postcard Ephemera
Here is a shabby and aged Whitney Made postcard back – a nice piece of grungy vintage ephemera. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Lady Purity Illustration
This vintage postcard, titled Purity, features an illustration of a lady wearing a blue gown and and a white veil over her long golden brown hair. She is holding her right hand over her heart and a white dove is resting on her left hand. Two more white doves are on the ground at her…
Vintage Bicycle Motorcycle Clip Art
This vintage magazine advertisement features a mechanical device that was designed to be attached to an ordinary bicycle to convert it into a two-cylinder motorcycle. They called the attachment The Johnson Motor Wheel and it was manufactured by the Johnson Motor Wheel Company of Chicago, Illinois. The speed of the crafted motorcycle was between 6…
Vintage Holly Botanical Illustration
Here is a beautiful vintage botanical illustration of holly leaves and deep red berries. I scanned the original image from Wild Fruits of the Country Side by F. Edward Hulme, 1907. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Toothbrush Holder Advertisement
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for a sanitary toothbrush holder that was manufactured by The Safety Wire Gas Globe Co. The ad includes an illustration of the toothbrush holder holding four toothbrushes, two bottles and a tube (which may contain toothpaste) placed on its side above the toothbrushes. Here is a black and white…
Vintage Printable Christmas Postcard
This vintage Christmas postcard includes an illustration of a deer in a snow-covered field in the country. The sun is setting over the scene that includes a country church in the background. The illustration is framed with purple flowers, sprigs of holly and berries and a larger ribbon frame along the outer edges of the…
Vintage Cottolene Advertisement
“The falling snow is not lighter or purer than the delicacies you prepare with Cottolene” is the catchphrase in this vintage magazine advertisement for the vegetable shortening, Cottolene. The ad includes an illustration of an exterior portion of a brick house, a window, and falling snow. A Victorian lady, in her dress and pinafore, and…
Vintage Dairy Bottle Caps Orange Drink
Here are two vintage Orange Drink bottle caps in aged white, orange and green colors. The first orange drink bottle cap was prepared for Fred M. Kyle’s Dairy Farms of Mackeyville, Pennsylvania. The second was prepared for Lassig Dairy Inc. of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Click on images to enlarge.
Victorian Lady Pictures Clip Art
This vintage ladies’ magazine page includes an illustration of a Victorian lady modelling a Ladies’ Toilette – consisting of a Coat Polonaise and Skirt. The description below the illustration continues, “The Skirt has a Deeply Shirred Front and Sides and a Full Straight Back and is Desirable to be worn with Coat-Polonaises and Basques.” …
Vintage Christmas Postcard Children Sledding
This vintage Christmas postcard features an illustration of two children sledding down a snow-covered hill on an old-fashioned red sled. The girl, riding in front, is holding two branches of holly and berries, as though they were reigns, in front of the sled. The greeting on the card is: Wishing You a Merry Christmas. Click…
