This Victorian trading card is an advertisement for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, an old remedy for children teething. The image on the front of the card features a happy mother holding a smiling baby. The back of the card includes advice for mothers in three languages and a calendar for 1888. Click on images to…
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St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning ~ Free Vintage Postcard Image
This vintage St. Patrick’s Day postcard features a lady watering green potted plants. The woman is wearing a green dress and her watering can is green. The green harp flag of Ireland is in the background. The message on the card is: “St Patrick’s Day In The Morning”. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Embroidery ~ Free Digital Magazine Ad and Clip Art
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for The Brainerd & Armstrong Co.’s annual Embroidery Book for the year 1900. The ad features an image of a well-dressed lady, seated in a beautiful wooden chair, doing embroidery work. The advertisement is from the November 1899 issue of The Designer magazine. Here is a black and white…
Cleaning Day Ladies Vacuuming and Dusting ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here are two vintage clip art images of ladies cleaning house. One lady is dusting. The second lady is vacuuming a carpet with an old fashioned carpet sweeper. The images are from the September 1907 issue of Pictorial Review. Click on images to enlarge.
Vintage Easter Bride Magazine Page and Clip Art ~ Free Graphics
This old magazine page offers suggestions for patterns, fabrics and pairings of skirts and overblouses to be used to create beautiful bridal wear for Easter brides in 1914. The page also includes a few small sketches of skirts and blouses and a large, gorgeous illustration of three vintage brides. Here is a black and white…
Vintage Birthday Postcard Lady and Birds ~ Free Digital Image
This lovely vintage postcard features an image of a lady in a copper colored dress seated on a rock ledge in a garden. She is framed by rose branches and several doves. One of the birds is resting on the lady’s right hand, one is resting on her left shoulder and one bird is delivering…
Manual of Salads Shabby Front Cover ~ Free Vintage Image
This aged and shabby front cover of a recipe booklet titled Manual of Salads features a woman in a blue dress and white apron preparing tomatoes for a salad. The booklet was published in 1914 to promote the use of Yacht Club food products. Click on image to enlarge.
Victorian Ladies’ Fashion 1895 ~ Free Clip Art Image
Here is a wonderful old image of a Victorian lady modelling a beautiful dress referred to as a Ladies’ Costume. The illustration is from the April 1895 issue of The Delineator magazine. Plus a black and white clip art version. Click on images to enlarge.
Antique Washing Machine Catalogue Listing ~ Free Graphics
Here is an antique catalogue listing for a high speed wizard washing machine. The listing includes an image of a woman working the machine. The old ad is from the Sears Roebuck and Co. 1916 catalogue. Here is a black and white clip art version of the image from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Woman Carrying Pie ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage clip art image of a woman carrying a warm pie. She is using a potholder that appears to be one of two attached to the front of her apron by long narrow strips of fabric. The image is from the December 1919 issue of The Modern Priscilla magazine. Click on…
Atmore’s Mince Meat Victorian Trade Card ~ Free Graphic
Here is a Victorian trade card advertising Atmore’s Mince Meat and Genuine English Plum Pudding. The image on this card is of a woman carrying a platter of plum pudding with one hand and a tea towel in her other hand. She is wearing a white blouse, red skirt and blue and white apron. Her hair is…
Free Vintage Dressmakers Clip Art
Here are two vintage clip art images of dressmakers busy at their work. One of the ladies is seated at her table, cutting fabric and the other lady is sewing at her treadle machine. The images are from the May 1904 issue of The Delineator magazine. Click on images to enlarge.
