Here is a printable illustration of a beautiful Victorian lady named Margarita. The 175 year old page she is on is also beautiful if you like grunge like I like grunge. I scanned the original page from the January 1842 issue of The New Monthly Belle Assemblee which is included in the latest book recently added…
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Free Vintage Clip Art Shoe Polish
This vintage magazine advertisement for Whittemore’s Shoe Polishes includes an illustration of three of the company’s shoe polishes in boxes. Two of the boxes have the fronts partially torn away, revealing the old fashioned bottles inside. The prices of shoe polishes in this ad were 10 cents and 25 cents. Here is a black and…
Les Parisiennes Fashion Plates Advertisement
This vintage magazine advertisement for Les Parisiennes Fashion Plates features two lovely illustrations of ladies modelling the latest in spring and summer suits for 1912. The ad claims that Les Parisiennes Fashion Plates were “recognized the world over as the supreme authority on correct tailor-made styles”. Here are black and white clip art versions of…
Ferry’s Seeds Advertisement
This vintage magazine advertisement for Ferry’s Seeds claims that “If you buy Ferry’s Seeds your garden may be a collection of finest specimens” for the seeds were thoroughbred, “true to type and of tested vitality and productiveness”. The ad includes a lovely illustration of a Victorian lady, on a cobblestone path in her garden, carrying…
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…
Hot Air Balloon Free Vintage Graphics
This antique encyclopedia page includes a definition for the word “BALLOON”. An illustration of a hot air balloon is included. I’ve scanned the following page as well, which includes the remainder of the lengthy definition for balloon. Here is a black and white clip art version of the balloon. Click on images to enlarge. I scanned…
Remington Typewriter Advertisement
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for a Remington typewriter. The ad illustrates the old year, 1896, portrayed as a feeble old man, leaving the scene with his sickle and hour glass in hand. He is looking back at the new year, 1897, portrayed as a strong, angelic baby, typing on a Remington Standard Typewriter….
St. Nicholas Will Soon be Here
This vintage Christmas illustration features a boy, dressed in medieval attire, riding a horse. The boy is carrying an ornately decorated, medieval-style banner that displays the poem: St. Nicholas will soon be hereHe brings you love, he brings you cheer,A merrie Christmas,A glad New Year. Here is a black and white clip art version. I…
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…
Cabbage Clip Art
This vintage catalog listing includes a description of, and pricing for, a Drumhead Savoy cabbage. The ad states that this cabbage was specially adapted to be grown in the fall and when allowed to be touched by frost, was one of the most delicious of all vegetables. Here is a black and white clip art…
Milk Bottles Clip Art
This strip of catalog listings includes descriptions and/or pricing for milk bottles, milk bottle caps, parchment butter paper and dairy salt. Also included are illustrations of three sizes of milk bottles and an illustration of milk bottle caps, showing one cap being opened and one cap closed. Here are black and white clip art versions of…
Corset Ad and Clip Art
This vintage advertisement for an F. P. corset features an illustration of a corset fitted to a dress form, on a polka dot background. The corset cost $1.25 and the ad claimed the corset to be America’s Favorite. Here is a larger black and white clip art version of the corset design from the ad….
