The illustration on this vintage Christmas postcard is of two Victorian girls setting, or playing with, a cuckoo clock while their mother looks on from the doorway to another room. Since the girls are wearing pretty dresses, perhaps it is still the afternoon or early evening of Christmas Eve and the girls are setting the…
Postcards
Vintage Postcard Ephemera
Here is a shabby and aged Whitney Made postcard back – a nice piece of grungy vintage ephemera. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Lady Purity Illustration
This vintage postcard, titled Purity, features an illustration of a lady wearing a blue gown and and a white veil over her long golden brown hair. She is holding her right hand over her heart and a white dove is resting on her left hand. Two more white doves are on the ground at her…
Vintage Printable Christmas Postcard
This vintage Christmas postcard includes an illustration of a deer in a snow-covered field in the country. The sun is setting over the scene that includes a country church in the background. The illustration is framed with purple flowers, sprigs of holly and berries and a larger ribbon frame along the outer edges of the…
Vintage Christmas Postcard Children Sledding
This vintage Christmas postcard features an illustration of two children sledding down a snow-covered hill on an old-fashioned red sled. The girl, riding in front, is holding two branches of holly and berries, as though they were reigns, in front of the sled. The greeting on the card is: Wishing You a Merry Christmas. Click…
Vintage Christmas Cozy Indoor Scene
This vintage Christmas postcard includes an illustration of a cozy indoor scene. A decorated tree stands in the corner near the window that has snow built up in the corners of each window pane. A braided rug, old fashioned wooden chair and trunk is in the foreground of the tree. The room is lit with…
Vintage Lady Innocence
This vintage postcard, titled Innocence, features an illustration of a lady in a flowing white gown with gold trim. She is walking through a meadow, carrying five lilies that are flowering from one long stem. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Postcard Lady Holding Flowers
This vintage postcard features a photograph of a lady wearing a pretty coat, a fancy hat and gloves. She is holding a bouquet of flowers in her hand and has a matching flower pinned to the lapel of her coat. There is handwriting across the front of the card. Here is the back of the…
Puppies Christmas Dinner Vintage Postcard
This vintage Christmas postcard features an illustration of a cute family of soft, furry dogs on Christmas Day. Mama is preparing dinner. She has just taken the hot turkey out of the oven while a pot of food is cooking on the wood cookstove in the background. Her two young puppies are happily playing with…
Vintage Postcard Ephemera Winter
This beautiful vintage postcard features an illustration of a snow-covered country home. The scene is peaceful and quiet. Warm yellow lighting glows through most of the windows of the house. I think it would be cozy to be in this house on a cold winter day. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Postcard Ephemera Christmas
This vintage business postcard, by the General Card Co., was advertising for potential sales people to sell personalized Christmas cards. Fifty personalized Christmas cards sold for $1.00 and the advertisement indicates that up to $5.00 could be earned in a day by taking orders “for the fastest-selling Personal Christmas Cards ever offered”. An extra dollar…
Vintage Thanksgiving Postcard Clip Art
Happy Thanksgiving Day to my fellow Canadians and anyone else that may be celebrating Thanksgiving today! This vintage Thanksgiving postcard features an illustration of two bunnies on a hill overlooking a field of stooks of hay and pumpkins. The message on the card is: THANKSGIVING HAPPINESSIn the pumpkins golden glowShines a wish for you,For Thanksgiving…
