Here are two vintage milk bottle caps. The colors on both are white, red and blue.The first milk cap is for pasteurized whipping cream and was printed for Maple View Farm Dairy in Moscow, PA. The second milk cap is for Grade A raw milk and was printed for Hartwig Dairy in Woodland. Click on…
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Corset Ad and Clip Art
This vintage advertisement for an F. P. corset features an illustration of a corset fitted to a dress form, on a polka dot background. The corset cost $1.25 and the ad claimed the corset to be America’s Favorite. Here is a larger black and white clip art version of the corset design from the ad….
Free Vintage Grunge Texture
Here are three well-aged grunge texture papers. They are endpapers I scanned from a couple volumes of Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897. Click on images to enlarge.
Cherry Fruit and Leaf
This vintage illustration features two cherries growing from a branch and a sketch of a cherry tree leaf in the background. Here is a black and white clip art version of the illustration. Click on images to enlarge. The image is from The Teachers’ and Pupils” Cyclopaedia, 1905.
Pansies Clip Art
This lovely vintage floral illustration features a cluster of three pansies. One is light yellow with a purple center, the second is dark yellow with a rust-colored center and the third is a vivid purple with a deep purple center. Click on image to enlarge. The image is from Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897, by…
Hedgehog Article and Clip Art
This vintage encyclopedia article features a description for the HEDGEHOG and includes an illustration of the hedgehog. The hedgehog has spines instead of hair, has small black eyes and short legs and is about ten inches long. It defends itself against its enemies by rolling into a ball. Here is a black and white clip…
Red Oriental Poppy
Here is a beautiful vintage illustration of a deep red Oriental poppy. Click on image to enlarge. I scanned the original image from Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897, by F. Edward Hulme.
Appleton’s Bias Velveteen Binding
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for Appleton’s Velveto-Diagon brand of bias velveteen skirt binding. It was available in 52 of the latest shades. The ad features an illustration of a roll of skirt binding and claims the product to be of superior quality and warranted not to fringe, ravel or separate. Here is a black…
Rose Hill Dairy Milk Tickets
Here is a grouping of fourteen vintage Rose Hill Dairy milk tickets. The faded green tickets are connected by perforated lines that have never been separated. Each milk ticket was redeemable for one pint of milk. Here is an individual milk ticket separate from the group of tickets. Click on image to enlarge.
Head Skull Clip Art
This vintage encyclopedia article features a description for the HEAD and includes an illustration of a human skull. The skull is numbered to show the location of the following: 1. frontal bone; 2. parietal; 3. temporal; 4. sphenoid; 5. ethmoid; 6. superior maxillary; 7. malar; 8. lachrymal; 9. nasal; and 10. inferior maxillary. Here is…
Preserve Jar Labels Open Booklet
Yesterday on my blog I shared the front cover of this well-worn vintage Preserve Jar Labels booklet. Today I’m sharing the open booklet. Some of the first pages that were in the booklet have been torn out and the partially-torn pages that remain are glued together from the adhesive that appears to have been dampened in…
Preserve Jar Labels Booklet Cover
Featured on the cover of this well-worn vintage Preserve Jar Labels booklet is a woman in a plaid dress and red apron holding up a jar of canned peaches. There are more jars of canned vegetables, fruit and jellies on a high shelf behind the woman and a few more jars of canned foods on…
