This beautiful image of a Large Cabbage Butterfly is from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. Click on image to enlarge.
Butterflies and Insects
Straw Bee Hives ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
This vintage image features straw beehives. The beehive on the left is closed and one on the right is open. The illustration is from Cassell’s Household Guide Volume III, circa 1869. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Clip Art Image ~ Queen Bee, Working Bee, and Drone Bee
This vintage clip art image includes a drone (male) bee (top center), a queen (female) bee (lower left) and a working bee (lower right). I scanned the illustration from Cassell’s Household Guide Volume III, circa 1869. Click on image to enlarge.
Spider and Web Vintage Clip Art
This vintage image of a spider web with a spider crawling on it is from the November 1879 issue of the American Agriculturist magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Spider Clip Art
Here is a big old spider for your Halloween and other creepy-crawly projects. The image is from the November 1879 issue of American Agriculturist magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
Bee-Keeping Ad and Clip Art
This vintage advertisement for Quinby’s New Bee-Keeping guide is from the November 1879 issue of the American Agriculturist magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the three bees from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Beautiful Butterfly Fairy No. 2
Here is another beautiful butterfly fairy nestled amongst a cluster of flowers on the branch of a tree. I uploaded the first butterfly fairy to my blog this morning, it’s available here. This vintage image is from the May 1904 issue of The Delineator magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
Beautiful Butterfly Fairy
This beautiful black and white clip art butterfly fairy is nestled within a cluster of flowers on the branch of a tree. The image is from the May 1904 issue of The Delineator magazine. There is another butterfly fairy illustration in the magazine that I’ll prepare to upload for you later today. Click on image…
Spider and Spiderweb
Here is a large spider crawling on its web, a vintage graphic that I thought you may like to have for Halloween projects. This image is from an antique school reader, Our Little Book for Little Folks, 1896. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Clip Art Wasp and Bee
These images are from an 1896 school reader. In the book, the title of this lesson is The Wasp and the Bee.Original lesson title: Clean lesson title: Original image from lesson: Clean image from lesson: Click on images to enlarge.
