Here are two aged and shabby vintage cookbook pages that include images of a woman testing the temperature of heated sugar, a food scale set out with a marble board and candy-making tools, and a young lady in a blue and white plaid bonnet and apron carrying a basket filled with groceries. The pages also…
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Picnic Basket Clip Art
This vintage magazine clipping promotes the use of a portable wicker picnic basket (referred to as a fruit package) “for packing fruit, game, vegetables, bottled liquids, meat, and any of those things which we put up in the square or oblong crates.” Here is a black and white clip art version of the open and…
Flying Witch in Basket
Happy Halloween! Here is a vintage storybook illustration of a witch flying in a basket. She is brushing at a spider’s web in the sky with her straw broom. The image is from Tom Tucker and Little Bo Peep, by Thomas Hood, illustrated by Alice Wheaton Adams, published in 1891. Click on image to enlarge.
Basket of Flowers ~ Free Vintage Image
This lovely Victorian card features three white flowers spilling from a basket that has tipped onto its side. The greeting on the card is: With Affection and Regard. Click on image to enlarge.
Victorian Flower Girl ~ Free Vintage Postcard Image
This lovely vintage postcard image features a Victorian girl in a white dress and yellow straw hat. She is spilling a basket of beautiful flowers as she walks along a path of grass. Perhaps she is a flower girl at a wedding. The message on the bottom of the card is: To the One I…
Basket of Shell Flowers ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage engraving of a basket of pretty shell flowers. The image is from Cassell’s Household Guide Volume III, circa 1869. Click on image to enlarge.
Basket of Flowers New Year Greeting Card
This is a Victorian New Year greeting card but the pretty basket of flowers, framed in a blue swirly floral pattern, can easily be used for many projects throughout the year. For added creative options, here is a version without the writing. And the greeting on the inside of the card. Click on images to…
Free Vintage Image ~ Little Pig Going to Market
Here is a vintage storybook image of a little pig carrying a basket and walking on his two back legs. This little pig is going to market. The image is from Tom Tucker and Little Bo Peep, by Thomas Hood, Illustrated by Alice Wheaton Adams. The book was published in 1891. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Flowering Clover Postcard
Here is a vintage Tuck’s birthday postcard with an image of flowering clover spilling out from a red basket that has been tipped over or placed on its side. There is a butterfly flying toward the flowers and a message on a card tucked in the clover that says Loving Birthday Greetings. For added creative…
Free Vintage Image ~ Cute Lamb Valentine to Grandma
Here is an adorable vintage Valentine’s Day greeting card. This cute little lamb is dressed in a red pinafore that covers a blue and white polkadot dress. She is carrying a basket of red hearts. The front of the card includes a greeting To Grandma on Valentine’s Day. I’ve removed the writing on the front of the…
Free Vintage Image ~ Chocolate Hearts
Here is a lovely basket of chocolate hearts that would be a nice addition to Valentine’s Day projects. It’s from a booklet titled Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes that was published by Walter Baker & Co., Ltd. in 1911. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Victorian Girls by Kate Greenaway
I just love this vintage illustration of two young Victorian girls out for a stroll down their storybook path! I wonder what the empty basket is for. Flowers, perhaps? The image is from the antique children’s book A Day in a Child’s Life by Kate Greenaway, circa 1881. Click on image to enlarge.
