This lovely vintage engraving features a young man and woman admiring their adorable, happy, little baby. The baby, supported by mommy’s protective arms, is seated on a table in front of the loving parents. The baby is gently touching his or her mommy’s face with both hands. The art is titled Their First Born Child….
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Vintage Botanical Illustrations Free Printables
I’ve spent many enjoyable hours this week (including a few hours borrowed from sleeping time) perusing, scanning, and retouching images from my antique Dictionary of Gardening books to assemble a set of vintage botanical illustrations for my Etsy shop. I scanned a few extra images to share with you today. They are, by their scientific…
American Beauty Red Rose
In addition to finding antique books and vintage ephemera for myself, I have a “team” of helpers. They are my four adult children who know what I like and they occasionally find vintage treasures for me when they are out and about. My daughter, son-in-law, and one of my sons went shopping garage sales together…
Birds Perched on Leafy Branch
Here is a vintage clip art illustration of five beautiful red and yellow birds perched on a leafy tree branch. The birds are: summer tanagers and hepatic tanagers. The illustration is by Louis Aggasiz Fuertes. I scanned the original image from the March – April 1918 issue of a magazine titled Bird-Lore. New in my…
Vintage Beach Fashion
These two magazine pages feature a fun article titled For Surf and Sands. The article discusses the latest sewing patterns for beach fashions, with suggestions for fabrics and colors, for the summer of 1900. Four illustrations of ladies and children on the beach are included on the pages. I scanned the original pages from the…
Call of the Swing Illustrated Poem
This vintage book page features an illustrated poem titled The Call of the Swing by Nancy Byrd Turner. The illustration is that of a beautiful, carefree, young lady swinging on an old fashioned rope swing that is fastened to a blossoming tree. The lady’s hair is in an up do and she is wearing an…
Vintage Fern Illustration
Here is a beautiful vintage illustration of a fern. The scientific name of the plant is: Nephrolepis Rufescens Var Tripinnatifida. I scanned the original image from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. The following three images are previews of new products I’ve added to my…
Vintage Butterflies and Congratulations Tracie
This vintage book page features twenty illustrations of colorful butterflies and moths. The name of each butterfly and moth is included above or below the illustrations. A few of the butterflies and moths included on the page are: Laertes Butterfly, Zebra Butterfly, Tiger Swallow Tail Butterfly, Goat Moth, Scarlet Tiger Moth, Monarch Butterfly, and Malachite…
Vintage Printable Magazine Ads
This digital collage sheet features a variety of five interesting vintage magazine advertisements from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Included on the page is an ad for Whiting’s writing paper, a garden seed ad, an advertisement for an artistic homes booklet, a nursing course ad and an ad for hair curlers. I have also…
Antique Show and Free Vintage Images
One of the highlights of spring for me is an antique show and sale that comes to our city each year. It’s held in a large venue and there are hundreds of tables – all displaying an abundance of antiques, most of which are also for sale. This year the event was held on the…
Vintage French Seed Packet Flower Labels
Here are two vintage French flower seed labels. The first label is titled Coreopsis Elegant Varie. Coreopsis is a flower of the daisy family. The second label is titled Myosotis des Alpes Varie. The flowers are forget-me-nots. These types of vintage seed labels would have been pasted on a seed packet or jar of seeds…
Illustrated Spring Poem Vintage Clip Art
This vintage poetry book page features two short poems and an illustration of a cluster of blue flowers framing a scenic view. A bumblebee is flying toward the flowers. One of the poems on the page is about spring. Here is larger, cleaner version of the image from the page. I scanned the original page…
