Here is an illustration of a Victorian lady modelling “A charming costume for garden-party or other dressy wear in Summer… The costume is thoroughly artistic and will develop most picturesquely in the beautiful new embroidered bastites and nainsooks… The hat of fancy straw is adorned with chiffon, flowers and ribbon”. The image is from the…
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Victorian Boy Carrying Flowers ~ Free Vintage Image
This vintage postcard features a well-dressed Victorian boy carrying flowers. He has a basket of pretty pink flowers balanced on his left shoulder and is holding, in his right hand, a green watering pail that is filled with a few more of the pretty pink flowers. The message on the postcard is: Heartiest Congratulations. Here…
Vintage Anchor Magazine Ad ~ Free Clip Art
Here is a vintage advertisement for Dwight Mfg. Co. Anchor Brand Sheets. The ad is from the February 1908 issue of The Delineator magazine. Here is a design combining the anchor with the circle from the ad. And a black and white clip art version of the anchor. Click on images to enlarge.
Kate Greenaway Strawberries ~ Free Vintage Image
Here is a pretty illustration of three strawberries with vines and leaves attached. The image is from the Victorian children’s storybook A Day in a Child’s Life by Kate Greenaway, circa 1881. Click on image to enlarge.
The Cow ~ Vintage Poem and Clip Art
Here is a sweet poem about a boy who loves his cow. The page is from A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1916. Here is a black and white clip art version of the image from the page. Click on images to enlarge.
Vintage Cow Engraving ~ Free Clip Art
Here is a vintage engraving of a cow standing in a field with trees in the distant background. The cow is a Norfolk Polled Heifer. I was curious to know what a heifer is so I looked it up. It is a young female cow that has not borne a calf. The image is from…
Peony French Seed Label ~ Free Vintage Image
Here is a vintage French seed label that features a beautiful illustration of pink, purple and yellow flowers. I believe they are Queen Daisy Peonies. The description on the label is: Reine Marguerite Pyramidale Pivoine Variee. This type of vintage seed label would have been pasted on a seed packet or jar of seeds for…
French Olive Oil ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is an aged and shabby vintage advertisement for Veuve Chaffard Pure Olive Oil that was bottled in France. The image is from the back cover of the August-September 1910 issue of Cooking School Magazine. Here is a cleaned up black and white clip art version of the bottle of olive oil from the ad….
Mistletoe and Berries ~ Free Vintage Image
This lovely spray of mistletoe and white berries is from a book of poetry titled Gems From Holmes. The book was published in 1904. Click on image to enlarge.
Victorian Mother and Baby Lullaby
This vintage book page includes two poems: Lullaby by Alfred Tennyson and Rock me to Sleep, Mother by Florence Percy. There is also an illustration of a Victorian mother cradling her baby in a rocking chair beside an open window. It is evening and through the open window we can see a large full moon…
Garden Carrots ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here are two black and white illustrations of carrots with their ferny leaves attached. Fig. 373 is a short carrot; Fig. 374 is a long carrot. The images are from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. Click on images to enlarge.
Historical Map of Germany ~ Free Vintage Image
Here is a beautiful old map of Germany. It is a C. S. Hammond map that was printed in one of a two-volume set of dictionaries in my collection that was published in 1906. Click on image to enlarge.
