This lovely vintage Christmas postcard clip art features a Victorian girl, dressed in red and white, walking through a snowy meadow. She is carrying a basket filled with branches of holly and berries and an additional armful of the branches. The girl is framed in an oval-shaped design of holly leaves and red berries. The message…
Old Christmas Plum Pudding Recipe
I thought you might enjoy reading, baking, or designing with, this shabby and aged vintage recipe for Christmas Plum Pudding. The recipe is from an old notebook of handwritten recipes I purchased at a garage sale many years ago. Click on image to enlarge.
Wisteria Illustration
This vintage floral illustration features a hanging branch of wisteria, lusciously full of the beautiful purple petals. The image is from Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897, by F. Edward Hulme. Click on image to enlarge.
Cabbage Clip Art
This vintage catalog listing includes a description of, and pricing for, a Drumhead Savoy cabbage. The ad states that this cabbage was specially adapted to be grown in the fall and when allowed to be touched by frost, was one of the most delicious of all vegetables. Here is a black and white clip art…
Milkmaid Advertising Card
This Victorian advertising card features an illustration of a milkmaid coming in from the pasture. She is balancing a pail of milk on her head. There are several cows in the pasture in the background. The advertising on the card is for Lactart Milk Acid, a powder that was made into a medicinal beverage by…
Milk Bottles Clip Art
This strip of catalog listings includes descriptions and/or pricing for milk bottles, milk bottle caps, parchment butter paper and dairy salt. Also included are illustrations of three sizes of milk bottles and an illustration of milk bottle caps, showing one cap being opened and one cap closed. Here are black and white clip art versions of…
Milk Bottle Caps
Here are two vintage milk bottle caps. The colors on both are white, red and blue.The first milk cap is for pasteurized whipping cream and was printed for Maple View Farm Dairy in Moscow, PA. The second milk cap is for Grade A raw milk and was printed for Hartwig Dairy in Woodland. Click on…
Corset Ad and Clip Art
This vintage advertisement for an F. P. corset features an illustration of a corset fitted to a dress form, on a polka dot background. The corset cost $1.25 and the ad claimed the corset to be America’s Favorite. Here is a larger black and white clip art version of the corset design from the ad….
Free Vintage Grunge Texture
Here are three well-aged grunge texture papers. They are endpapers I scanned from a couple volumes of Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897. Click on images to enlarge.
Cherry Fruit and Leaf
This vintage illustration features two cherries growing from a branch and a sketch of a cherry tree leaf in the background. Here is a black and white clip art version of the illustration. Click on images to enlarge. The image is from The Teachers’ and Pupils” Cyclopaedia, 1905.
Pansies Clip Art
This lovely vintage floral illustration features a cluster of three pansies. One is light yellow with a purple center, the second is dark yellow with a rust-colored center and the third is a vivid purple with a deep purple center. Click on image to enlarge. The image is from Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897, by…
Hedgehog Article and Clip Art
This vintage encyclopedia article features a description for the HEDGEHOG and includes an illustration of the hedgehog. The hedgehog has spines instead of hair, has small black eyes and short legs and is about ten inches long. It defends itself against its enemies by rolling into a ball. Here is a black and white clip…
