This vintage listing for a toy train is from the 1916 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue. This set came with a red engine and tender and cost $1.00. A tender is a rail car that carries wood, coal or oil and water to keep the locomotive running for long distances (I had to look that…
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Free Vintage Image ~ Christmas Postcard Santy’s Been
Here is an adorable and colorful vintage Christmas postcard. Dressed in pink pajamas and a large paper hat, this child is marching around with brand new Christmas gifts in tow. The gifts include a toy horn, a drum and there are toys brimming from the stocking. The message on the postcard above the child is:…
Fork Spoon Knife Cutlery Clip Art
This vintage set of cutlery clip art includes a fork, a spoon and a knife, in a beautiful ornamental swirly pattern. The image is from the H. O’Neill & Co. 1897-8 Fall & Winter Fashion Catalogue. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ French Receipt
Here is a wonderful old wholesale grocer French receipt. It is dated December 12, 1919. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Clothes Drier Clip Art
This vintage clothes drier image is from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa 1888. Click on image to enlarge.
Woman Cooking Clip Art
Here is a vintage clip art image of a woman cooking. She is standing at the table measuring a spoonful of an ingredient to add to her pan. The image is from the February 1912 issue of Pictorial Review. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Grungy Cookbook Pages
Here are five well-used, aged, grungy cookbook pages. Some of the recipes on the pages include: Tea-Cakes, Vanilla Cake, Wedding Cake, Almond Icing for Cakes, Coffee Icing, Gingerbread, Crumpets, Muffins, and Hot Rolls. The pages are from Mrs. Beeton’s Cookery Book, 1910. Click on images to enlarge.
Brass Banquet Lamp #4
This is the twelfth and final table lamp image from the H. O’Neill & Co. 1897-8 Fall & Winter Fashion Catalogue. It’s a Brass Banquet Lamp and cost $3.95 with the globe. Without the globe it was $2.95. The previous lamp I posted from the catalogue is available on my blog HERE. Click on image to enlarge.
Combination Spool and Thimble Holder
I think this combination thread spool and thimble holder was a wonderful invention and it would be great if they still made these. 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…
Chinese Cherry Flowering Branch
This stunning vintage image of a “flowering branch of double white Chinese Cherry (Cerasus Serrulata)”. is from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. Click on image to enlarge.
Eau de Lavande French Beauty Label
Here is a beautiful vintage French beauty label for Eau de Lavande (lavender water) that was printed for Jn. Giraud Fils. The label includes pretty ornamental details, edging in turquoise and an eye-catching accent of red typography. Click on image to enlarge.
Brass Banquet Lamp #3
This is the eleventh vintage lamp image I’m sharing from the H. O’Neill & Co. 1897-8 Fall & Winter Fashion Catalogue. It’s a Brass Banquet Lamp with Onyx Column. The lamp, complete with cathedral globe cost $10.75; the lamp without globe was $6.75. The last lamp I posted from the catalogue is available on my blog HERE….
