Here are two aged and shabby vintage library cards. They are from the book Birdcraft, by Mabel Osgood Wright, 1897, a recent addition to my collection. When the book arrived and I saw these old library cards intact, I was excited to share them with you! Library Card Front: Library Card Back: A separate Date Due card:…
School Office Library
Carriages and Vehicles
This old book page is filled with a variety of illustrations of antique vehicles. The page is titled, “Modern Fashionable Carriages and Vehicles in General Use”. I scanned it from Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms, by Thos. E. Hill, 1886. Click on image to enlarge.
Victorian Etiquette New Year’s Calls
Here is a two-page article on the etiquette of New Year’s Calls. It was the Victorian era and the rules for social etiquette were much different than they are today. I first planned only to scan the decorative illustration from the first page but I thought some of you may enjoy reading (or working with)…
Antique Theatre Program Cover
Here is the front cover of an antique Hartford theatre program. The page advertises an Oakland car to get “surely, quickly and safely to the theatre”. The top of the page mentions that Linus T. Fenn Co.’s furnishings are used in the theatre and the bottom of the page mentions that Gallup & Alfred pianos…
Antique Christmas Text Magazine Pages
These two aged pages are from the December 1900 issue of The Designer magazine. The first page includes a lovely Christmas frame around typewritten details for three contests The Designer was running at the end of the year 1900. The second page outlines the rules that applied to all three contests. Click on images to enlarge.
Christmas Doll’s Wardrobe
Here is a three-page vintage magazine article titled The Wardrobe for the Christmas Doll. There are several illustrations on the pages including a variety of adorable Victorian dolls dressed in their finest Christmas costumes. There is a sketch of Santa’s face is in the upper left corner of the first page. Designs of garland, mistletoe…
Helping Mom Bake
Here is an aged and shabby page from a vintage school reader. The featured words on the pages are: take, some, help, find and want. The lesson is about a girl who wants to help her mother bake a cake. Her mother asks the girl to bring her three eggs from the barn. The illustration…
1916 Christmas Package Ideas
This vintage catalogue page includes a variety of wrapping and tissue papers, boxes, ribbons, cards, stickers and tags that were available to make gift packages beautiful for the Christmas of 1916. The page is from the Sears Roebuck and Co. 1916 winter catalogue. Click on image to enlarge.
Antique Conley Cameras
This vintage catalogue page features advertising for two styles of Conley cameras: the Model C Conley Camera and the Conley Junior Film Camera. The Model C ranged in price from $18.85 to $33.55. The Conley Junior ranged in price from $8.80 to $18.05. The page is from the 1916 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue. Here…
Vintage Toys
Here is a vintage catalogue page of toys. Included on the page is a stuffed cow, a stuffed horse and a stuffed dog. The stuffed animals are on wheels and range in price from $1.19 to $4.98. There are three toy stock farms on the page, ranging in price from 51 cents to $1.98. A…
Hand Bell
This vintage magazine advertisement features a hand bell that was manufactured by the N. N. Hill Brass Co. of East Hampton, Conn. The ad is from the September 6, 1917 issue of Hardware Age magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the bell from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Single Entry Bookkeeping
Here are six full-sized, shabby and aged, printable accounting book pages from Gaskell’s Compendium of Forms Educational Social Legal and Commercial by Prof. G. A. Gaskell, 1880. The pages feature samples from a single-entry bookkeeping section in the book. Whether printed out or used digitally, these vintage accounting papers make great backgrounds for tags, cards, art journal pages,…
