This beautiful vintage Christmas postcard features a group of birds perched on snowy tree branches. Some of the birds are singing. We can see a warm light glowing through the window of a brick house in the background. This wintery scene is framed by sprigs of holly and berries. A message in the lower right corner…
Table Setting Magazine Advertisement
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for a book titled The Pattern Cook-Book. The ad includes an illustration of a table setting complete with plates, glasses, cutlery and a centerpiece of flowers and candelabras. A variety of bottles and jugs are displayed on a sideboard behind the table. Here is a black and white clip…
Victorian Christmas Card ~ Poppies
This lovely Victorian Christmas card features a cluster of poppies and the greeting: Just to wish you a Happy Christmas. Click on image to enlarge.
Victorian Ladies’ Street Toilettes
This beautiful illustration features two Victorian ladies modelling floor length dresses covered by long winter coats, which are referred to as Ladies’ Street Toilettes. The woman on the right is holding a furry muff and both ladies are wearing lovely hats. Here is a black and white version. The image is from the January 1900 issue…
Cluster of Flowers and Poem
This page, from a vintage book of poetry, features a beautiful cluster of red, pink, and yellow flowers and the following poem: Who is queen of Babyland?Mother, kind and sweet;And her love,Born above,Guides the little feet.Baby-land. Here is a second version of the page with the wording removed. I scanned the original page from a…
Snowy Owl Vintage Clip Art
Here is a beautiful vintage illustration of a Snowy Owl perched on a tree branch. I scanned the original page from Birdcraft by Mabel Osgood Wright, 1897. The artwork is by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Here is a black and white clip art version. Click on images to enlarge.
Snowy Country Scene Christmas Card
This lovely vintage Christmas postcard features an illustration of a snow-covered home in the country framed in a poinsettia designed edge. The message on the postcard is: A Joyous Christmas. Click on images to enlarge. Click on image to enlarge.
Printable Antique Sheet Music
These printable antique pages of sheet music were written for kindergarten students. Included on the pages are three songs for the young children to learn. The songs are: Marching Song, The Gingerbread Boy and A Song of Thanks. I scanned the original pages from the book First Year Music by Hollis Dann, 1914. Click on images to enlarge.
Rustic Victorian Country Cottage
Here is a unique clip art illustration of a charming, rustic Victorian country cottage. The image is from A Summer at Grandma’s, published by Homewood Publishing Company in 1902. Here is a black and white version. Click on images to enlarge.
Victorian Girl Removing Calendar Pages
In an attempt to be helpful to her mother, this young Victorian girl is removing all the pages from a calendar on the wall. The calendar was placed too high for the girl to reach from the floor but she has moved a chair over to the wall which makes her just tall enough to…
Christmas Bells Vintage Postcard
This beautiful vintage Christmas postcard features a grouping of three golden bells, a sprig of holly and berries and a sprig of mistletoe and berries that are tied together loosely with a pretty pink ribbon. The card includes “To” and “From” lines and the greeting: A bright Christmas. Click on image to enlarge
Happy Home Vintage Santa Ad
Here is a vintage advertisement for a Home-Making and House-Keeping book published by The Butterick Publishing Co. The ad claims the book includes “complete instructions for making every home beautiful and, therefore, happy”. Although the illustration of Santa Claus included in the ad seems completely unrelated to the book, or to making a home happy,…
