This vintage page includes advertising for reproductions of Lida Clarkson’s Colored Studies and Ingall’s Home Magazine. The page features a black and white engraving of Lida Clarkson’s beautiful Study of Roses. Here is a black and white clip art version of the illustration of roses from the page. My original scan is from the January…
Free Vintage Patterned Grunge Textures
Here are two grungy, aged and stained texture papers. I scanned the originals from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. Click on images to enlarge.
Hide And Seek Engraving
This adorable storybook engraving, by Oscar Pletsch, features a young Victorian girl standing in a corner with her face hidden. She is playing a game of hide and seek with her friend and it is her turn to “hide”. The girl has her hands clasped behind her back with the arm of her doll clutched in…
Chrysanthemum Flower Child ~ Storybook Page
Here is a shabby vintage storybook page that includes an illustration of a beautiful Chrysanthemum flower child. The page also includes the following short poem: CHRYSANTHEMUM is Japanese,She’s a fine lady, if you please;She comes to see us once a year,About the time Thanksgiving’s here. Here is a cleaner version of the chrysanthemum flower child….
Garden Tools Clip Art
This vintage advertisement is from a supplement to the November 1889 issue of the American Agriculturist magazine. The ad features a set of flower garden tools, consisting of a hoe, spade, fork and rake, that were made of the best steel and iron with finely polished hardwood handles. A boxed set of the tools was available free…
Purple Flowers in Square Vase
This vintage birthday postcard features a square white vase that is filled with beautiful purple flowers. The message on the postcard is: Birthday Greetings. Click on image to enlarge.
Victorian Ladies’ Swimsuits
This shabby vintage page includes a fun illustration of two Victorian ladies’ modelling swimsuits at the beach. For additional creative options, here is a black and white clip art version of the image from the page. I scanned the original page from the June 1904 issue of The Delineator magazine. Click on images to enlarge.
Oceania and the Pacific Vintage Map
Here is a wonderful vintage C. S. Hammond map of Oceania and the Pacific. New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, Borneo, Sumatra and the Philippine Islands are also included on the map. I scanned the original from a dictionary in my collection that was published in 1906. Click on image to enlarge.
The Tennessee Vintage Ship Engraving
Here is a vintage engraving of a ship named The Tennessee. The illustration is from the April 1872 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
Shabby Victorian Calling Cards
Here are two beautifully aged and shabby Victorian calling cards. Each card includes a floral design on the left and a name written in a fancy calligraphy font. The name on the first card is Regina Hofer. Here is a version of the card without the name. The name on the second card is Clemens…
Good Manners Clip Art
Here is a full-page vintage advertisement for a book titled Good Manners that was published by The Butterick Publishing Company. The book cost $1.00 and covered etiquette for every phase of social life in 1890. Here is a black and white clip art version of the Victorian couple from the ad. My original scan is…
Happy Days by Kate Greenaway
Here are two pages from the vintage storybook Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway, circa 1892. The pages include a poem titled Happy Days and an illustration of two young ladies (perhaps older sisters) who have stopped to visit as they cross paths on their walk. The older girls are each holding a baby and have more children…
