Here are catalogue listings for two styles of antique washing machines. The first is a rotary washer named the Perfection Washer. The cost was $6.75 and the ad guaranteed this to be the finest washing machine in the world. Here is a black and white clip art version of the Perfection Washer. The second washer…
Advertising
Crab-Apple Blossoms Clip Art
Here is a vintage advertisement for Crab-Apple Blossoms, a perfume that was manufactured by the Crown Perfumery Co. The ad includes an illustration of a beautiful perfume bottle with a crown shaped lid. The ad is from a back page of advertising in Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management, circa 1888. Here is a black and white…
Horsfords Acid Phosphate
This Victorian trading card features an illustration of a young girl with her arms folded and resting on a pedestal. She is wearing a ruffled shawl and ruffled bonnet with a large pink bow. The advertising on the card is for Horsford’s Acid Phosphate – a preparation for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia, &c. Here…
Lavender Salts Clip Art
Here is a vintage advertisement for Lavender Salts manufactured by the Crown Perfumery Co. The ad includes an illustration of the beautiful bottle of lavender salts with a crown shaped lid. The ad is from a back page of Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management, circa 1888. Here is a black and white clip art version of…
Vintage Salad Dressing Clip Art
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for Slade’s Salad Cream. The ad is from the August – September 1908 issue of Cooking School Magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the bottle of salad dressing from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Winslow’s Ice Skates Clip Art
This vintage magazine advertisement features an offer for a free lithographed catalogue that includes “everything of interest to skaters”. The ad includes an illustration of a Winslow ice skate. The ad is from the December 1897 issue of The Ladies’ Home Journal. Here is a black and white clip art version of the illustration of the…
Pincushion Thimble Spoolholder
This vintage magazine advertisement features a combination pincushion, thimble and spoolholder. The ad claims this combination to be “a wonderful convenience in sewing” and it “saves time and worry”. The ad is from the December 1897 issue of The Ladies’ Home Journal. Here is a black and white clip art version of the illustration from the…
Horse Drawn Sleighs
This tattered and shabby page of horse-drawn sleighs (or cutters) is from the 1907 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogue. Here are black and white clip art versions of the sleighs from the page. Click on images to enlarge.
Packard Touring Car ~ Free Clip Art
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for the Packard “Thirty” Touring Car for 1910. The ad is from the June 1909 issue of Harper’s Monthly Magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the car from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Corticelli Silk Kittens ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
This vintage magazine advertisement for Corticelli Silk features two sweet kittens playing with a spool of thread. The ad is from the March 1907 issue of The Ladies’ Home Journal. Here is a black and white clip art version of the kittens from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Infant’s Wardrobe ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage advertisement for the most complete infant’s wardrobe, 21 separate garments made by the Modes Fashion and Pattern Company. The regular retail price for the entire infant’s wardrobe was 75 cents but with the coupon attached to the ad, the wardrobe was available for 40 cents. I scanned the original ad from…
Baking Powder Clip Art ~ Free Vintage Graphics
Here is an aged and shabby vintage advertisement for Mrs. Lincoln’s baking powder. The image is from the back cover of the August-September 1910 issue of Cooking School Magazine. And here is a black and white clip art version of a can of baking powder from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
