This Victorian card features a beautiful illustration of a blonde girl who appears to be rather melancholy. She is wearing a light green dress with a contrasting red sash and vibrant red hat to match. And she is carrying a small wooden, perhaps empty, birdcage. Click on image to enlarge.
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Victorian Children New Year Postcard
Here is a cute vintage New Year postcard, illustrated by Ellen Clapsaddle. A Victorian boy and girl are each seated on a chair beside a table that has been set for tea. The boy is dressed in a golden-brown colored knickers suit and holding a red hat on his lap. He is shyly looking downward. The…
Dinner Time for the Calves
This sweet vintage illustration features a Victorian girl feeding a calf from a large brown bucket filled with milk. The girl is looking toward another calf that is coming down a gently sloped hill of the pasture toward her. The artwork is titled Dinner Time and is based on a painting by Florence M. Gill….
A Year with Dolly
A Year with DollyBy Eudora S. Bumstead Doctor Mama knows what to doWhen girls and dollies are troubled;With needle and thread and a bottle of glueMy Dolly’s strength she has doubled.But she never can make her new and bright;I’m almost ashamed to show her. –If Santa Claus could see her to-nightI don’t suppose he would…
Victorian Girl Baking Plum Pudding
This adorable vintage postcard features a sweet Victorian girl doing some Christmas baking. She is wearing a red and white dress, a white scarf tied over her hair and a much-too-large blue and white gingham apron that probably belongs to her mother. The girl is using a wooden spoon to stir ingredients in a large…
A Cup of Tea Vintage Clip Art
A Cup of Tea, by E. L. Sylvester, is a sweet vintage poem about five girls serving tea. The girls are named: Phoebe, Dolly, Rhoda, Polly, and the youngest is simply referred to as Baby. Phoebe is bringing the teapot filled with tea, Dolly is carrying a pitcher of cream, Rhoda has the cups, Polly…
Clapsaddle Kids Thanksgiving Pie
I purchased this adorable vintage Thanksgiving postcard online recently, hoping it would arrive by Thanksgiving Day celebrated in the United States last week; however, it just arrived in my mailbox today. I quickly scanned and digitally cleaned it up, hoping that some of you may still be working on Thanksgiving scrapbooking or journaling memories and…
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…
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….
A Victorian Girl and Her Doll
Here are clip art illustrations of a Victorian girl and her doll. The images are from Our Little Book for Little Folks, an antique school reader that was published in 1896. A boy, a baseball bat and ball from the same school reader are available on my blog here. Click on images to enlarge.
A Morning Walk
This lovely Victorian card features an illustration of mother and daughter out for a morning walk on a late summer or early fall day. Click on image to enlarge.
How Polite by Oscar Pletsch
This vintage engraving, by Oscar Pletsch, is titled: How Polite. The illustration features a Victorian boy bending to present a young girl a cookie from a plate of cookies he is holding with both hands. The little girl is holding a basket of flowers in one hand and is shyly about to reach out for…
