Here is an adorable vintage handwritten letter to Santa Claus. The little girl who wrote the letter has let Santa know that she has a new baby brother named Fred and she has asked Santa to please bring some Christmas presents for him. She gave Santa a few ideas of what she thinks her brother…
School Office Library
Vintage Chemistry Book Pages
I posted four vintage chemistry book pages to my blog yesterday. Here are four more pages from the same vintage chemistry school book. The pages are yellowed with age and include scientific text, a couple of charts and two images of vintage lab testing equipment. The pages are from Elementary Applied Chemistry by Lewis B….
Vintage Chemistry Book Pages
Here are four vintage chemistry book pages. They are yellowed with age and include scientific text as well as images of vintage lab testing equipment. The pages are from Elementary Applied Chemistry by Lewis B. Allyn. The book was published in 1912. I plan to post a few more pages from this book in the…
Vintage Kitchen Utensils Catalogue Page
This vintage catalogue page includes a variety of kitchen utensils, including: a corkscrew, an egg timer, toothpicks, a potato masher, strainers, egg beaters, soap holders, spoons, spice racks and a rolling pin. I scanned the original page from my copy of the 1907 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogue.
Free Vintage Graphics Harris Typewriter
Here is a vintage catalog advertisement for a Harris Typewriter. The price of the typewriter was $44.80 in 1916 and the ad is quite detailed as to how the company could offer this high quality typewriter for such a low price. Here is a black and white clip art version of the typewriter illustration from…
Victorian Social Code
When I posted the Second Cotillon Victorian dance invitation a couple days ago, I was asked by a blog reader how that type of invitation worked. When I went in search of the answer, I found the entire article the invitation was part of to be very interesting. In many respects, the world was a much…
Vintage Penmanship Practice Pages
Here are three vintage penmanship practice pages.The first page includes practice lines for the number 18, the letters A, N and M, the words: Alice and Max, and the sentences: Alice can sew and Max can row. The second page includes practice lines for the number 19, the letters F and T, the words: Fred and Tune, and the…
Victorian Girl Discovers a Butterfly
Here is an illustration of a young Victorian girl, named May, playing outdoors in summer. May has discovered a flower with pretty yellow wings that flies all over the garden. She calls her mother to come to the window to see. When her mother comes to have a look, she sees that her daughter has…
School is Over by Kate Greenaway
SCHOOL is over,Oh, what fun!Lessons finished,Play begun.Who’ll run fastest,You or I?Who’ll laugh loudest?Let us try. Here is a cleaner version of the illustration of school children from the page. This adorable storybook poem and illustration is from Under the Window by Kate Greenaway, circa 1880. Click on images to enlarge.
Commencement Gowns 1904
Here are clip art illustrations of several young ladies modelling a variety of elegant commencement gowns that were fashionable in the early 1900s. The images are from the March 1904 issue of McCall’s magazine. Click on images to enlarge.
Carriages and Sleighs
This old book page is filled with a variety of illustrations of antique carriages and sleighs. The page is titled, “Late Styles of Fashionable Carriages and Sleighs”. You can find a similar page of antique transportation (carriages and vehicles) on my blog here. I scanned the page from Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms,…
Easter Bunny Cart
This printable vintage magazine page features an Easter bunny to cut out and paste together. The bunny is pushing a wooden cart that has a large egg loaded onto it. The page is from the April 1904 issue of McCall’s Magazine. Here is a black and white version of the bunny to color, cut out…
