Here is a beautiful vintage illustration of a deep red Oriental poppy. Click on image to enlarge. I scanned the original image from Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897, by F. Edward Hulme.
Appleton’s Bias Velveteen Binding
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for Appleton’s Velveto-Diagon brand of bias velveteen skirt binding. It was available in 52 of the latest shades. The ad features an illustration of a roll of skirt binding and claims the product to be of superior quality and warranted not to fringe, ravel or separate. Here is a black…
Rose Hill Dairy Milk Tickets
Here is a grouping of fourteen vintage Rose Hill Dairy milk tickets. The faded green tickets are connected by perforated lines that have never been separated. Each milk ticket was redeemable for one pint of milk. Here is an individual milk ticket separate from the group of tickets. Click on image to enlarge.
Tomato Harvest and Recipe Request
This spring I experimented and planted my first-ever cherry tomato plant. A few hours after I put the plant in the ground, we had an unexpected storm with high winds. My poor tomato plant looked ragged and spindly by the end of the day and I didn’t think it was going to survive. I made…
Head Skull Clip Art
This vintage encyclopedia article features a description for the HEAD and includes an illustration of a human skull. The skull is numbered to show the location of the following: 1. frontal bone; 2. parietal; 3. temporal; 4. sphenoid; 5. ethmoid; 6. superior maxillary; 7. malar; 8. lachrymal; 9. nasal; and 10. inferior maxillary. Here is…
Preserve Jar Labels Open Booklet
Yesterday on my blog I shared the front cover of this well-worn vintage Preserve Jar Labels booklet. Today I’m sharing the open booklet. Some of the first pages that were in the booklet have been torn out and the partially-torn pages that remain are glued together from the adhesive that appears to have been dampened in…
Preserve Jar Labels Booklet Cover
Featured on the cover of this well-worn vintage Preserve Jar Labels booklet is a woman in a plaid dress and red apron holding up a jar of canned peaches. There are more jars of canned vegetables, fruit and jellies on a high shelf behind the woman and a few more jars of canned foods on…
Little Red Fox Clip Art
Here is a vintage illustration of an adorable little red fox. And a black and white clip art version. Click on images to enlarge. I scanned the original from The Teachers’ and Pupils” Cyclopaedia, 1905.
Velvet Grip Host Supporter Ad
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for the Velvet Grip brand of hose supporter. The ad claimed that the buttons on this brand of hose support were moulded from the best grade rubber and suggests that the buyer should not be deceived by [other manufacturers hose support] buttons made of wood. Click on image to…
Free Vintage Clip Art Grocery Store Price Tags
Here are two vintage grocery store price tags, one shows the amount of 14 cents, the other shows 89 cents. The tags were designed with the price in red font within a thin green frame, all on a cream-colored background. Click on images to enlarge.
Vintage Bathroom Clip Art
Here is an illustration of a vintage bathroom. The amenities include: a toilet, a sink and a clawfoot tub. Here is a black and white clip art version. Click on images to enlarge. I scanned the original image from the 1916 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue.
Free Vintage Clip Art Flower Lined Path
This vintage birthday postcard features a peaceful tree-lined path in the country scene. A flourish of pretty blue forget-me-not flowers grow along the base of the well-worn path. The greeting on the card is: Best Birthday Wishes. Here is a version of the card with the writing removed. Click on images to enlarge.
