This vintage Thanksgiving postcard features an illustration of a turkey’s head and neck surrounded by a variety of colorful menus. The turkey is wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. A “Thanksgiving Day” greeting is included in the upper right corner of the postcard. A message at the bottom edge of the card is: I’m…
Young Woman Cooking Clip Art
This vintage clip art illustration features a young woman cooking. She is sifting flour into, or perhaps icing sugar over, a full cake pan that is on a counter. Here is a black and white version. The image is from the April 1915 issue of Pictorial Review magazine. Click on images to enlarge.
Frosting and Filling Recipes
After posting a vintage cookbook page of recipes for Lady Baltimore Cake and Lord Baltimore Cake last week, I received a couple requests for the frosting and filling recipes to complete the cakes. Here are those recipes. Lady Baltimore Cake requires the Lady Baltimore Filling and Frosting recipes. Lord Baltimore Filling and Boiled Frosting recipes…
Fire Queen Stove Clip Art
This antique catalogue advertisement features a beautifully designed Fire Queen heater stove. The page includes a detailed description of the stove and pricing that ranges from $11.25 to $13.45, depending on the size of the stove. Here is a black and white clip art version of the stove from the ad. I scanned the original advertisement from…
Lilies Christmas Card
This antique Raphael Tuck and Sons Christmas card features a beautiful bouquet of white lilies with brown and green leaves on a cream colored background. The message on the card is: May theChild of Love abideThee and thine for ever near,Blessing every CHRISTMASTIDE,Blessing every bright New Year! Click on image to enlarge.
Flowering Almond Branch
Here is a beautiful vintage illustration of a Flowering Branch of Amygdalus Communis – or flowering almond branch. I scanned the original image from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. Here is a black and white version. Click on images to enlarge.
Vintage Cake Clip Art and Recipes
This page from a vintage cookbook includes recipes for Lady Baltimore Cake and Lord Baltimore Cake Also included on the page is an illustration of a white layer cake on a green platter. A reddish brown frosting separates the layers of the cake; the top and sides are covered with white frosting. Here is a…
November Poem by K. Pyle
Here is a vintage poem titled November by Katherine Pyle. November by K. Pyle Now the cold wind rattlesIn the icy sedge,And the sparrows ruffleIn the leafless hedge. Past the wood and meadow,On the frozen poolAll the boys go skating,When they come from school. The river too was frozen;I saw it far away,And wished that…
Horsfords Acid Phosphate Trading Card
This Victorian trading card features an adorable head and shoulders illustration of a young girl with curly hair. The girl is wearing a pink dress with a white ruffled collar and a matching pink hat. The advertising on the card is for Horsford’s Acid Phosphate – a medication for mental and physical exhaustion, dyspepsia, etc….
Mortar and Pestle Clip Art
Here is a vintage clip art illustration of a mortar and pestle. I scanned the original image from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa 1888. Click on image to enlarge.
Country Church Christmas Card
This beautiful vintage Christmas postcard features a country church winter scene at dusk. A few people are walking through a path in the snow that leads to the church at the top of a snow-covered hill in the distance. A gold edge on the postcard frames the winter scene. Decorations of holly and bells are…
Vintage Knitting Pattern Child’s Stocking
This vintage magazine clipping features a knitting pattern for a child’s stocking. The article includes an illustration of the knit stocking and finishes with instructions to make a larger stocking. I scanned the original article from the June 1904 issue of The Delineator magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
