This lovely vintage Christmas postcard includes a Christmas greeting within a frame of holly and berries and a swirly design. The heading on the card is Christmas Blessings. The message is: Joy attend you, Peace Divine On your household fall, Heavenly blessings freely given By the Lord of all. Click on image to enlarge.
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Old Stove Catalogue Page and Clip Art
This aged page, from the Sears, Roebuck & Co. 1907 catalogue, features a wood burning Acme pioneer cook stove. Here is a black and white clipart version of the stove. Click on images to enlarge.
Christmas Girl Applying Blush
This vintage Stecher Christmas postcard features an image of an adorable girl in a red dress, seated at a table, applying blush. There is a decorated Christmas tree in the background to her right. A greeting on a curtain to the left of the girl is: I think Christmas is just lovely. Don’t you? Another…
The Christmas Tree Sheet Music
Here are two pages of vintage sheet music from Bradbury’s Fresh Laurels for the Sabbath School, 1867. The old song is titled The Christmas Tree. Click on images to enlarge.
Free Vintage Christmas Postcard Image ~ Santa Painting Doll House
This vintage Christmas postcard features a wonderful image of Santa Claus preparing toys in his workshop. Santa is holding a painter’s palette in his left hand while he paints a doll house with his right hand. There are tools on the wall behind Santa and boxes on a shelf higher on the same wall. The…
Breathe, Breeches, Breeze ~ Free Dictionary Page
This aged page, from a vintage dictionary published in 1922, includes the words: breath, breathe, breeches, breeze and bric-a-brac. Click on image to enlarge.
Salt and Pepper Shakers ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is a lovely vintage set of salt and pepper shakers that is nicely decorated with hand-painted flowers. This old magazine advertisement is from a supplement to the November 1889 issue of the American Agriculturist magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the image from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Sprig of Holly and Berries
This beautiful vintage illustration of holly and berries is from a book of poetry titled Gems from Bryant, 1904. Click on image to enlarge.
Ornamental Candelabras
Here are two beautiful engravings of ornamental candelabras. The images are from The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue, published for the proprietors, by George Virtue in London, 1851. Click on images to enlarge.
Admiring Roses Christmas Image
This vintage Christmas postcard includes a girl in a pretty white dress and blue sash admiring bouquet of yellow roses. The roses are in a red vase and there is a branch of holly and berries on the left side of the card. The greeting on the postcard is: Merry Xmas. Click on image to…
Free Vintage Image ~ Herrick’s Almanac 1906, December
Here is the December page from Herrick’s Almanac for 1906. The November page from the almanac is free to download from my blog here. The advertising on this page is for Renne’s Pain-Killing Magic Oil. Click on image to enlarge.
Ribbons and Bows
Here are four uniquely tied and shaped ribbons. One has been draped while the other three have been tied into beautiful bows. The images are from A Handbook of Ornament by Franz Sales Meyer, circa 1877. Click on images to enlarge.
