Here is a vintage trading card for Moulton & Bradley Clothiers who were located at 484 and 486 Washington Street in Boston, Mass. The card features a beautiful illustration of a soft woven basket tipped on its side. The basket is full of ripe red cherries that are spilling out onto the tabletop. Click on image…
Food and Drink
Free Vintage Luncheon Recipe Graphics
This nine page vintage article titled Ladies’ Luncheons by Janet M. Hill includes two menus, with accompanying recipes, to successfully host a luncheon for ladies – early 1900s style. The first eight pages of this article (and other pages in the magazine that included photographs) were published on a paper that is glossier than the…
Vintage Catalog Page of Groceries
This vintage catalog page features a variety of boxed, canned and bottled groceries that could be ordered by mail in the late 1800s. Some of the items available to order from the page were: coffee, tea, baking powder, cocoa, jelly, raisins, sardines and olives. I scanned the original page from the 1897-8 H. O’neill & Co. catalogue…
Shabby Cooking School Magazine Cover
This shabby, worn cover from the Aug. – Sept. 1908 issue of The Boston Cooking School Magazine includes illustrations of cooking equipment, steaming cups (perhaps filled with tea), a sugar bowl filled with sugar cubes and a creamer. Stalks of wheat are designed in a circular pattern behind the illustrations. The magazine was a 10…
Rustic Pottery and Cherries
Here is a lovely vintage New Year postcard by Catherine Klein. Clusters of cherries and a few single cherries are placed alongside a rustic pottery vase on a tabletop. The greeting on the card is: A Happy New Year. For additional creative options, here is a version of the card with the wording removed. Click…
Franklin Sugar Cookbook Pages
Here are two aged and shabby vintage cookbook pages that include images of a woman testing the temperature of heated sugar, a food scale set out with a marble board and candy-making tools, and a young lady in a blue and white plaid bonnet and apron carrying a basket filled with groceries. The pages also…
Old Christmas Plum Pudding Recipe
I thought you might enjoy reading, baking, or designing with, this shabby and aged vintage recipe for Christmas Plum Pudding. The recipe is from an old notebook of handwritten recipes I purchased at a garage sale many years ago. Click on image to enlarge.
Cabbage Clip Art
This vintage catalog listing includes a description of, and pricing for, a Drumhead Savoy cabbage. The ad states that this cabbage was specially adapted to be grown in the fall and when allowed to be touched by frost, was one of the most delicious of all vegetables. Here is a black and white clip art…
Milk Bottles Clip Art
This strip of catalog listings includes descriptions and/or pricing for milk bottles, milk bottle caps, parchment butter paper and dairy salt. Also included are illustrations of three sizes of milk bottles and an illustration of milk bottle caps, showing one cap being opened and one cap closed. Here are black and white clip art versions of…
Milk Bottle Caps
Here are two vintage milk bottle caps. The colors on both are white, red and blue.The first milk cap is for pasteurized whipping cream and was printed for Maple View Farm Dairy in Moscow, PA. The second milk cap is for Grade A raw milk and was printed for Hartwig Dairy in Woodland. Click on…
Rose Hill Dairy Milk Tickets
Here is a grouping of fourteen vintage Rose Hill Dairy milk tickets. The faded green tickets are connected by perforated lines that have never been separated. Each milk ticket was redeemable for one pint of milk. Here is an individual milk ticket separate from the group of tickets. Click on image to enlarge.
Preserve Jar Labels Open Booklet
Yesterday on my blog I shared the front cover of this well-worn vintage Preserve Jar Labels booklet. Today I’m sharing the open booklet. Some of the first pages that were in the booklet have been torn out and the partially-torn pages that remain are glued together from the adhesive that appears to have been dampened in…
