This Victorian card features a beautiful illustration of a blonde girl who appears to be rather melancholy. She is wearing a light green dress with a contrasting red sash and vibrant red hat to match. And she is carrying a small wooden, perhaps empty, birdcage. Click on image to enlarge.
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Free Vintage Luncheon Recipe Graphics
This nine page vintage article titled Ladies’ Luncheons by Janet M. Hill includes two menus, with accompanying recipes, to successfully host a luncheon for ladies – early 1900s style. The first eight pages of this article (and other pages in the magazine that included photographs) were published on a paper that is glossier than the…
Ornamental Victorian Script Alphabet
This beautiful ornamental Victorian alphabet (initial script) was designed for engraving, fancy needlework, etc. Most of our modern-day alphabet is included on the two pages except the letters “X” and “I” or “J” Perhaps the letter included, whether it is intended to be an “I” or “J”, is interchangeable. I scanned the original pages from Hill’s…
Tulip Soap Floral Advertising Card
This Victorian advertising card for Tulip Soap features a beautiful illustration of a yellow rose clustered together with a purple lilac and plenty of green leaves. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Catalog Page of Groceries
This vintage catalog page features a variety of boxed, canned and bottled groceries that could be ordered by mail in the late 1800s. Some of the items available to order from the page were: coffee, tea, baking powder, cocoa, jelly, raisins, sardines and olives. I scanned the original page from the 1897-8 H. O’neill & Co. catalogue…
Free Vintage Kittens Image
This adorable vintage postcard image features two kittens sitting behind a wooden board. Their paws are resting on the top of the board and they appear to be singing their little hearts out. Click on image to enlarge.
Shabby Cooking School Magazine Cover
This shabby, worn cover from the Aug. – Sept. 1908 issue of The Boston Cooking School Magazine includes illustrations of cooking equipment, steaming cups (perhaps filled with tea), a sugar bowl filled with sugar cubes and a creamer. Stalks of wheat are designed in a circular pattern behind the illustrations. The magazine was a 10…
Valentine Cherub and Dove
This adorable vintage Valentine’s Day postcard features a cherub in a boat made of forget-me-nots. The boat is filled with pretty pink hearts and is being pulled by a white dove. The greeting on the card is: To my Valentine. Click on image to enlarge.
Les Parisiennes Fashion Plates Advertisement
This vintage magazine advertisement for Les Parisiennes Fashion Plates features two lovely illustrations of ladies modelling the latest in spring and summer suits for 1912. The ad claims that Les Parisiennes Fashion Plates were “recognized the world over as the supreme authority on correct tailor-made styles”. Here are black and white clip art versions of…
Free Vintage Image ~ Toilet Water Label
Here is a colorful vintage perfume label for Carnation Toilet Water. It was prepared for Phil Eisemann of Lancaster, PA. The illustration on the label includes lovely pink and red carnations. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Fishing Tackle
Here are three vintage catalogue pages of fishing tackle. Some of the items included on the pages are: casting and fly rods, reels, bait, leads, hooks, fishing line, flies and sinkers. The pages are from the 1916 Sears Roebuck and Co. winter catalogue. Click on images to enlarge.
Ferry’s Seeds Advertisement
This vintage magazine advertisement for Ferry’s Seeds claims that “If you buy Ferry’s Seeds your garden may be a collection of finest specimens” for the seeds were thoroughbred, “true to type and of tested vitality and productiveness”. The ad includes a lovely illustration of a Victorian lady, on a cobblestone path in her garden, carrying…
