Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for Atmore’s Mince Meat Genuine English Plum Pudding. The ad features a man (the father of the pie family) seated at a table, enjoying a piece of pie. I scanned the ad from the January 1896 issue of The Delineator magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the image from…
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Tomato Catalogue Page and Clip Art ~ Free Vintage Images
This vintage garden catalogue page includes descriptions and prices for several varieties of tomatoes. There are four types of tomatoes illustrated on the page. They are: Stone Tomato, Early Ruby, Henderson’s Table Queen Tomato and the Favorite Tomato. The page is from the Peter Henderson & Co. Everything for the Garden Manual, 1898. Here are black…
Chili Pepper and Bell Pepper ~ Free Vintage Clip Art Images
Here are two wonderful illustrations of peppers: a chili pepper and a bell pepper. In the old book I scanned the images from, the peppers are also referred to as: fruit of long and round capsicums. The images are from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa…
Climbing Beans and Pole Beans
This vintage catalogue page includes descriptions and prices for several varieties of climbing and pole beans. There are three images on the page. They include: a woman with a wicker basket in a bean garden, a pole filled with ripe Early Golden Cluster Wax beans and an open bean pod that is full of ripe…
Page of Fruit and Nuts ~ Free Vintage Image
This page contains vibrantly colored illustrations of: oranges, apples, a pear, grapes, peaches, cherries and an assortment of nuts. The page is from the antique school lesson book Our Little Book for Little Folks, 1896. Click on image to enlarge.
Tea and Coffee Set
The various pieces of this silver and gilt tea and coffee set were modelled from the pitcher plant and the tray on which they are placed from a leaf of the Victoria Regia. This beautiful engraving is from The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue, published for the proprietors, by George Virtue in London, 1851. Click on image to enlarge.
Maple Syrup Cake ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage cookbook page that includes an illustration of maple syrup cake and recipes for Maple Syrup Cake, Cocoanut Cake and Lemon Nut Cake. The page is from Igleheart’s Cake Secrets, 1922. And a cleaner version of the maple syrup cake image. Click on images to enlarge.
Antique Cutlery Engravings Set 2 ~ Free Clip Art
Here is a second random collection of beautiful antique forks, knives and spoons for you to use individually or mix and match as you wish. I scanned these engravings from The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue, published for the proprietors, by George Virtue in London, 1851. Click on image to enlarge.
Antique Cutlery Engravings ~ Free Clip Art
Here is a random collection of beautiful antique forks, knives and spoons for you to use individually or mix and match as you wish. I scanned these engravings from The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue, published for the proprietors, by George Virtue in London, 1851. I’m working on a second set of random cutlery from the same book and…
Manual of Salads Shabby Front Cover ~ Free Vintage Image
This aged and shabby front cover of a recipe booklet titled Manual of Salads features a woman in a blue dress and white apron preparing tomatoes for a salad. The booklet was published in 1914 to promote the use of Yacht Club food products. Click on image to enlarge.
Old Fashioned Chocolate Sweets ~ Free Digital Recipes
By request, here are some recipes from Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes by Miss Parloa and Janet McKenzie Hill, a recipe booklet that was published in 1911. Some of the recipes on these pages include: chocolate caramel walnuts, chocolate peanut clusters, chocolate oysterettes, fudge hearts or rounds, marshmallow fudge, chocolate divinity, fondant, chocolate peppermints, chocolate…
Old Fashioned Chocolate Sweets ~ Free Vintage Cookbook Page
This page of old fashioned chocolate desserts includes: chocolate caramel walnuts, chocolate marshmallows, fudge hearts or rounds, chocolate peanut clusters, chocolate divinity, chocolate peppermints and chocolate oysterettes. The page is from Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes by Miss Parloa and Janet McKenzie Hill, a recipe booklet that was published in 1911. Click on image to enlarge.
