Happy Thanksgiving Day to my fellow Canadians and anyone else that may be celebrating Thanksgiving today! This vintage Thanksgiving postcard features an illustration of two bunnies on a hill overlooking a field of stooks of hay and pumpkins. The message on the card is: THANKSGIVING HAPPINESSIn the pumpkins golden glowShines a wish for you,For Thanksgiving…
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Raggedy Ann Gets a Haircut
This vintage storybook page features a cute illustration of Raggedy Ann getting a haircut. I scanned the original page from Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Gruelle. The book was published in 1918. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Clip Art Stove Advertisement
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for an early cook stove. In 1899, this stove was a new concept and much different than the commonly used wood-burning cook stoves of the time. This stove burned “ordinary kerosene oil, as used in lamps, with an intensely hot blueflame”. It cost $19.00 complete. The ad includes an…
Vintage Clip Art Dictionary Page Bicycle
This blog post is in response to a request for a dictionary page with the word bicycle. Some of the other words included on the page are: biceps, bicuspid, bicycling, bicyclist, bid, biennial and bier. I scanned the original from a vintage dictionary that was published in 1922. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Book Cover Sunshine and Roses
Here is an aged and yellowed vintage book cover (front and back) from a small vintage book of poetry titled Sunshine and Roses. Included on the front of the book cover is an illustration of two roses. The book was published in 1910. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Gourds Clip Art
This vintage catalog listing includes a brief description of, and pricing for, a variety of gourds, including: mixed gourd, nest egg gourd, dishcloth gourd, dipper gourd, mock orange, calabash or pipe gourd and heavenly blue ipomea. The packets, for any variety, were priced at 5 cents each. The ad includes an illustration of a variety…
Sycamore Leaf Botanical Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage botanical illustration of a sycamore leaf and fruit. In reference to the fruit, the article in the book states, “One venerable author describes the arrangement as “fruit fastened together by couples, one right against another, with kernels bumping neere to the place in which they are combined: in all the other…
Victorian Boy Cabinet Card Clip Art Photo
Here is an antique cabinet card photograph of a handsome Victorian boy. He is dressed in a pin-stripe suit jacket, matching shorts, dress shirt and large bow tie at the collar of his shirt. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Clip Art Dictionary Page Pumpkin
This aged page is from a vintage dictionary published in 1922. It includes the words: pulley, pulpit, pulse, puma, pumpkin and punctuation. Click on image to enlarge.
Card Seed Co Vintage Onion Seed Packet
Here is a vintage seed packet for White Bermuda Onions. The illustration on the front of the packet includes three of the onions. The package was printed for the Card Seed Co. of Fredonia, N. Y. The back of the package includes directions for planting the seeds. Click on images to enlarge.
Kelly Springfield Vintage Magazine Tire Ad
“Don’t be a “Rough Rider” in your own vehicle” is the catchphrase in this fun vintage magazine advertisement by the Kelly-Springfield Tire company. The ad features an illustration of three calm and relaxed people riding in a carriage that is being pulled by horses running at high speed. I scanned the original ad from the…
Vintage Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner Clip Art
This vintage Thanksgiving postcard features an illustration of a table set for a special roast turkey dinner. Included on the table that has been covered with a linen tablecloth is: a roast turkey, slice of pie, bowl of fruit and small bowls of what may be cranberries and olives. A bottle of wine and jug…
