This lovely vintage botanical illustration includes a sprig of holly with bright scarlet berries and, to the right, a smaller blossoming sprig of holly with pretty white flowers. The image is from Familiar Wild Flowers by F. Edward Hulme, circa 1890. Click on image to enlarge.
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Birds and Holly Christmas Clip Art
This beautiful vintage Christmas postcard features a group of birds perched on snowy tree branches. Some of the birds are singing. We can see a warm light glowing through the window of a brick house in the background. This wintery scene is framed by sprigs of holly and berries. A message in the lower right corner…
Victorian Christmas Card ~ Poppies
This lovely Victorian Christmas card features a cluster of poppies and the greeting: Just to wish you a Happy Christmas. Click on image to enlarge.
Snowy Country Scene Christmas Card
This lovely vintage Christmas postcard features an illustration of a snow-covered home in the country framed in a poinsettia designed edge. The message on the postcard is: A Joyous Christmas. Click on images to enlarge. Click on image to enlarge.
Christmas Bells Vintage Postcard
This beautiful vintage Christmas postcard features a grouping of three golden bells, a sprig of holly and berries and a sprig of mistletoe and berries that are tied together loosely with a pretty pink ribbon. The card includes “To” and “From” lines and the greeting: A bright Christmas. Click on image to enlarge
Happy Home Vintage Santa Ad
Here is a vintage advertisement for a Home-Making and House-Keeping book published by The Butterick Publishing Co. The ad claims the book includes “complete instructions for making every home beautiful and, therefore, happy”. Although the illustration of Santa Claus included in the ad seems completely unrelated to the book, or to making a home happy,…
Lilies Christmas Card
This antique Raphael Tuck and Sons Christmas card features a beautiful bouquet of white lilies with brown and green leaves on a cream colored background. The message on the card is: May theChild of Love abideThee and thine for ever near,Blessing every CHRISTMASTIDE,Blessing every bright New Year! Click on image to enlarge.
Country Church Christmas Card
This beautiful vintage Christmas postcard features a country church winter scene at dusk. A few people are walking through a path in the snow that leads to the church at the top of a snow-covered hill in the distance. A gold edge on the postcard frames the winter scene. Decorations of holly and bells are…
Vintage Christmas Bell Postcard
This lovely vintage Christmas postcard features a gold colored bell nestled in a cluster of blue forget-me-nots, pine cones and snow-covered evergreen branches. The design is enclosed in a frame of golden branches with snowy tips – all on a green background. The message on the card is A Merry Christmas to you. Click on image…
January 1 Vintage New Year Postcard
Happy New Year everyone! This beautiful vintage New Year postcard includes an arrangement of a white floral heart and a blue floral heart on a background of pink flowers. A white card rests on the floral hearts and a white dove is perched on the top edge of the card. Written on the card is…
New Year’s Night Clip Art
Here is a vintage poem titled New Year’s Night by Florence Folsom. The poem includes an illustration of a young mother holding her baby. The baby is lifting her hands toward the sky and there is an arc of stars above the mom and her child. The image is from the February 1889 issue of St….
1910 New Year Postcard Illustration
This beautiful vintage New Year postcard features an illustration of a four-leaf clover that is framed on the left and right by pink flowers. The date 1910 is designed in a gold color over the center of the four-leaf clover. The message on the card is: With best New Year Wishes. Click on image to…
