This beautiful vintage Christmas postcard clip art includes an illustration of a red ribbon bow fastened to a sprig of holly and berries in the upper left corner. The ribbon drapes across to the right side of the card where a gold bell hangs from another bow. The background is lavishly illustrated with branches of…
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A Vintage Christmas Poem
Here is an illustrated vintage Christmas poem with the unusual title A New Mother Goose Jingle. The poem reads: Sing a song of Christmas-time,Mistletoe and holly,Two impatient little girls,Genevieve and Dolly.When the door was openedThey shouted in their glee,And wouldn’t you have shouted tooTo have so fine a tree?~ Dorothy G. Rice Here is a black and…
Victorian Girl Holly and Berries Christmas Clip Art
This lovely vintage Christmas postcard clip art features a Victorian girl, dressed in red and white, walking through a snowy meadow. She is carrying a basket filled with branches of holly and berries and an additional armful of the branches. The girl is framed in an oval-shaped design of holly leaves and red berries. The message…
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.
Happy New Year Cherubs
Best wishes for a happy and blessed 2016! This vintage New Year postcard features an illustration of three adorable cherubs looking over a snow-topped brick wall. Sprigs of holly and mistletoe frame the cherubs on each side. A large, snow-covered sign appears on the brick wall. It reads: A Happy New Year. Click on image…
Vintage New Year Young Lady
This beautiful vintage postcard features an illustration of a lovely young lady coming down a snow covered path in the country. The lady is wearing warm clothes, a fleece hat and has both hands tucked into a furry muff. She is carrying a basket filled with Christmas greenery on her arm. The greeting on the…
December 25 Dove
Merry Christmas everyone! This beautiful vintage Christmas postcard features a white dove carrying, in its beak, a pink ribbon that is tied to a calendar page. The calendar page reads, “December 25”. The dove is flying over several snow-covered buildings, including houses and a church, in a small country town at dusk. The greeting on…
Vintage Christmas Ads
Here are three vintage magazine advertisements that promote various products as Christmas gifts.Gorham Manufacturing Co., solid silver articles: Huyler’s Bonbons Chocolates: Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Co., baby organ: I scanned the original ads from pre-1900 issues of St. Nicholas magazines. Click on images to enlarge.
Birds on Branch of Holly and Berries
This vintage Christmas postcard features two sweet birds perched together on a branch of holly and berries. The greeting on the card is: With Best Wishes for a Very Merry Christmas. Click on image to enlarge.
New England Mince Meat Advertisement
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for Dougherty’s New England Mince Meat. The ad includes an illustration of a package of mincemeat with a basket of fruit sketched on the side. Mincemeat is used to make pie, especially during the Christmas season. Here is a black and white clip art version of the illustration from…
Clapsaddle Christmas Children
This vintage Christmas postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle features three adorable Victorian children happily bursting through an open door from outdoors. The children have been outside gathering decorations from nature. The boy in the group is dragging in a small evergreen tree, the eldest of the two girls is carrying a large sprig of holly and…
Christmas Stockings Clip Art
Here is a beautiful vintage illustration of Christmas stockings hanging from the fireplace mantle. There are four pairs of stockings, in a variety of sizes and styles, hanging empty – in anticipation of Santa’s arrival! Here is a black and white clip art version. I scanned the original image from the December 1897 issue of St….
