This vintage Christmas postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle features an adorable Victorian boy with curly blonde hair, dressed in red, white, and blue. The boy is standing on a wooden chair at the table, making him tall enough to place a sprig of holly and berries into the centre of the baked Christmas pudding that is…
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Franklin Sugar Cookbook Pages
Here are two aged and shabby vintage cookbook pages that include images of a woman testing the temperature of heated sugar, a food scale set out with a marble board and candy-making tools, and a young lady in a blue and white plaid bonnet and apron carrying a basket filled with groceries. The pages also…
St. Nicholas Will Soon be Here
This vintage Christmas illustration features a boy, dressed in medieval attire, riding a horse. The boy is carrying an ornately decorated, medieval-style banner that displays the poem: St. Nicholas will soon be hereHe brings you love, he brings you cheer,A merrie Christmas,A glad New Year. Here is a black and white clip art version. I…
Mary Garden Perfume Ad
Here is a lovely vintage magazine advertisement for Mary Garden Perfume sold under the Rigaud label. The ad features a happy young couple bundled up for winter, standing outdoors on a snowy street. They have stopped to look into a large shop window and admire a display of Mary Garden perfumes and beauty products. The…
Holly Berries Red Bows and Bell
This beautiful vintage Christmas postcard clip art includes an illustration of a red ribbon bow fastened to a sprig of holly and berries in the upper left corner. The ribbon drapes across to the right side of the card where a gold bell hangs from another bow. The background is lavishly illustrated with branches of…
A Vintage Christmas Poem
Here is an illustrated vintage Christmas poem with the unusual title A New Mother Goose Jingle. The poem reads: Sing a song of Christmas-time,Mistletoe and holly,Two impatient little girls,Genevieve and Dolly.When the door was openedThey shouted in their glee,And wouldn’t you have shouted tooTo have so fine a tree?~ Dorothy G. Rice Here is a black and…
Victorian Girl Holly and Berries Christmas Clip Art
This lovely vintage Christmas postcard clip art features a Victorian girl, dressed in red and white, walking through a snowy meadow. She is carrying a basket filled with branches of holly and berries and an additional armful of the branches. The girl is framed in an oval-shaped design of holly leaves and red berries. The message…
Old Christmas Plum Pudding Recipe
I thought you might enjoy reading, baking, or designing with, this shabby and aged vintage recipe for Christmas Plum Pudding. The recipe is from an old notebook of handwritten recipes I purchased at a garage sale many years ago. Click on image to enlarge.
Wisteria Illustration
This vintage floral illustration features a hanging branch of wisteria, lusciously full of the beautiful purple petals. The image is from Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897, by F. Edward Hulme. Click on image to enlarge.
Cabbage Clip Art
This vintage catalog listing includes a description of, and pricing for, a Drumhead Savoy cabbage. The ad states that this cabbage was specially adapted to be grown in the fall and when allowed to be touched by frost, was one of the most delicious of all vegetables. Here is a black and white clip art…
Milkmaid Advertising Card
This Victorian advertising card features an illustration of a milkmaid coming in from the pasture. She is balancing a pail of milk on her head. There are several cows in the pasture in the background. The advertising on the card is for Lactart Milk Acid, a powder that was made into a medicinal beverage by…
Milk Bottles Clip Art
This strip of catalog listings includes descriptions and/or pricing for milk bottles, milk bottle caps, parchment butter paper and dairy salt. Also included are illustrations of three sizes of milk bottles and an illustration of milk bottle caps, showing one cap being opened and one cap closed. Here are black and white clip art versions of…
