Here is a vintage trading card for Moulton & Bradley Clothiers who were located at 484 and 486 Washington Street in Boston, Mass. The card features a beautiful illustration of a soft woven basket tipped on its side. The basket is full of ripe red cherries that are spilling out onto the tabletop. Click on image…
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Free Vintage Clip Art Ice Skates Advertisement
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for Barney & Berry ice skates. The ad features an illustration of a two men playing hockey. Here is a black and white clip art version of the hockey players extracted from the ad. I scanned the original advertisement from the September 6, 1917 issue of Hardware Age magazine.Click…
Free Vintage Printable Wild Strawberry
Here is a vintage botanical illustration of a wild strawberry. I love illustrations of strawberries and I believe it’s because they bring back wonderful memories from my early years. Wild strawberries grew abundantly in the forest surrounding the farm where I lived for the first chapter of my life. My sisters and I would often…
Free Vintage Clip Art Scissors Ad
Here is a vintage clip art magazine advertisement for Keen Kutter scissors and shears. The ad includes an illustration of spools of thread displayed together with a thimble and a pincushion with pins and needles inserted. One of the needles in the pincushion is threaded. The ad assures the potential customer that Keen Kutter scissors…
Free Vintage Printable Pink Flower
Here is a lovely vintage printable illustration of a Lyre flower, also known as the Bleeding Heart. It has pretty pink heart shaped flowers and light green leaves. I scanned the original illustration from Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897, by F. Edward Hulme. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Printable Antique Poem Margarita
This printable antique poem is titled Margarita. It corresponds to the illustration of the Victorian lady Margarita that I posted to my blog this morning. I scanned the illustration and this poem from a magazine that was published 175 years ago. The pages within the magazine naturally and beautifully validate their old age. Although I…
Free Printable Victorian Lady Margarita
Here is a printable illustration of a beautiful Victorian lady named Margarita. The 175 year old page she is on is also beautiful if you like grunge like I like grunge. I scanned the original page from the January 1842 issue of The New Monthly Belle Assemblee which is included in the latest book recently added…
Free Vintage Printable French Handwritten Receipt
Here is a shabby vintage handwritten French receipt. It is dated June 2, 1917 and was written on a piece of graph paper. It is complete with a stamp that was common on the antique French invoices and receipts. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Valentine Clip Art Cherub and Violets
This pretty vintage Valentine’s Day clip art postcard features an illustration of a cherub framed in a heart-shaped cluster of purple violets. Behind the cherub is a quiet country setting, where the edge of a lake meets the forest. The background of the card is purple, graduating from dark purple in the upper left corner…
Free Vintage Printable Grocery Store Receipt
This unused printable vintage grocery store receipt was printed for Ditto’s Store in the 1940s. Ditto’s was located on 644 Washington Avenue in Hagerstown, MD and could be reached at telephone number 1588J. The receipt has yellowed with age. Two small illustrations are included at the top of the invoice. One shows a store clerk,…
Free Vintage Clip Art Grocery Store Price Tags
Here are four vintage clip art grocery store price tags. The price of each tag is in a dark red font within a solid-line green frame, all on a lightly yellowed background. The price on the individual tags is: 19 cents, 23 cents, 50 cents and 2.89. I previously posted 2 of these tags in the…
Free Vintage Clip Art Shoe Polish
This vintage magazine advertisement for Whittemore’s Shoe Polishes includes an illustration of three of the company’s shoe polishes in boxes. Two of the boxes have the fronts partially torn away, revealing the old fashioned bottles inside. The prices of shoe polishes in this ad were 10 cents and 25 cents. Here is a black and…
