Here are two vintage bicycle clip art illustrations. The first is of a man standing beside his bicycle. The clothing he is wearing was considered “the newest and most approved style of bicycle suit for men” in 1894. Here is a black and white clip art version. The second illustration is of a “graceful and…
1890s
Victorian Fashion Plate
This Victorian fashion plate features an illustration of two women dressed in beautiful fashions of the day. The lady on the left is wearing a dark purple blouse with poufy upper sleeves. Her blouse is decorated with white lace and finished with a white lace collar, white lace edging on the sleeves, as well as…
Victorian Hats for Ladies Clip Art
This vintage clip art illustration includes a variety of hats for ladies that were fashionable in the fall of 1897. There are a total of seven hats on the page, two of which include head and shoulders illustrations of Victorian ladies wearing the hats. I scanned the original page from the October 1897 issue of The…
Victorian Lady Pictures Clip Art
This vintage ladies’ magazine page includes an illustration of a Victorian lady modelling a Ladies’ Toilette – consisting of a Coat Polonaise and Skirt. The description below the illustration continues, “The Skirt has a Deeply Shirred Front and Sides and a Full Straight Back and is Desirable to be worn with Coat-Polonaises and Basques.” …
Free Vintage Clip Art Moustache Guard Ad
Here is a fun vintage magazine advertisement for a detachable moustache guard that was manufactured by Donaldson & Co., of Detroit, Michigan. The ad claimed the moustache guard made dainty china look daintier. I scanned the original ad from the May 1899 issue of The Ladies’ Home Journal. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Victorian Clip Art Face Powder Advertisement
Here is a Victorian clip art advertisement for Marie Antoinette face powder which was manufactured by the Crown Perfumery Co. An illustration of the elegant ornate box the face powder was packaged in is included in the ad. The price of the powder was 50 cents a box. I scanned the original advertisement from the…
Free Victorian Clip Art Corset Advertisement
Here is a Victorian clip art advertisement for Kabo Corsets. Featured in the ad is an illustration of a lovely Victorian lady. Kabo corsets were available in 30 styles and ranged in price from $1.00 to $3.00. I scanned the original image advertisement from the May 1899 issue of The Ladies’ Home Journal magazine. Click…
Vintage Catalog Page of Groceries
This vintage catalog page features a variety of boxed, canned and bottled groceries that could be ordered by mail in the late 1800s. Some of the items available to order from the page were: coffee, tea, baking powder, cocoa, jelly, raisins, sardines and olives. I scanned the original page from the 1897-8 H. O’neill & Co. catalogue…
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…
Antique Dance Invitation
Here is an antique invitation to the “Second Cotillon at Sherry’s on Monday evening, January twenty-eighth, from nine until one o’clock.” I learned from an online search that a cotillon is a lively French country dance that originated in France in the 18th century. Here is a black and white version of the invitation. Click on…
A Vintage Christmas Poem
Here is an illustrated vintage Christmas poem with the unusual title A New Mother Goose Jingle. The poem reads: Sing a song of Christmas-time,Mistletoe and holly,Two impatient little girls,Genevieve and Dolly.When the door was openedThey shouted in their glee,And wouldn’t you have shouted tooTo have so fine a tree?~ Dorothy G. Rice Here is a black and…
Moustache Man Vintage Clip Art
This vintage illustration features a young Victorian “moustache man” dressed in a tennis suit. His outfit consists of a long sleeve button-down shirt with a tie finished into a bow at the collar, cumberbund at the waist, and striped pants. The man is also wearing a cap and holding a tennis ball in his left hand. The…
