These felt hats were fashionable Victorian hats but some of them remind me of pilgrim hats and the one I’ve put on the top right in this collection could work as an old-fashioned Halloween witch’s hat. The images are from the H. O’Neill & Co. 1897-8 Fall & Winter Fashion Catalogue. Click on image to enlarge.
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Free Vintage Champagne Graphics ~ Magazine Ad and Clip Art
This vintage advertisement for Grand Imperial Sec Champagne, being introduced by the Germania Wine Cellars, is from the Christmas 1898 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the bottle of champagne from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Vintage Bride Cake ~ Free Clip Art
This ornately decorated vintage bride cake illustration is from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa 1888. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Candelabra ~ Free Clip Art
This wonderful vintage candelabra image is from The Wanamaker Stores 1903-4 Holiday Catalogue. Click on image to enlarge.
Shyness by Oscar Pletsch ~ Free Vintage Graphic
SHYNESS This very modest-looking little maid Never knows what it is to be afraid: Should a spring bubble up across her way, For help to ford it she will never stay, But leaps right over it with secret joy; Her gallant spirit might befit a boy. Why does she droop her head so shyly now?…
Victorian Ladies’ Greek Tea Gown ~ Free Clip Art
This vintage illustration features both the front and back view of an elegant Victorian Ladies’ Greek Tea Gown. The image is from the November 1891 issue of The Delineator magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
Pigs, Piglets, Rooster and Hen Farm Animals ~ Free Graphic
In this old sepia-toned farm scene, a pig and her piglets are cozy in the hay. A rooster and hen are perched on the roof of what is likely either a pig pen or chicken coop. The rooster thinks the pigs are sleeping too long and being lazy so he is crowing to try to…
Vintage Baby Clip Art ~ A Little Journey
This baby girl is about to go on a little journey. She is dressed, packed and waiting. Her doll is cuddled under her left arm, she’s holding an umbrella in her right hand and a large tagged suitcase is by her side. The illustration is from the book Our Dear Baby published by Richard G. Krueger in 1916. Click on…
Free Vintage Opera Glasses Clip Art
Here is a wonderful vintage image of Lemaire opera glasses from The Wanamaker Stores 1903-4 Holiday Catalogue. Finished in morocco and black mountings the opera glasses cost from $4.00 to $5.50 but finished in pearl and gold plate they cost from $8.25 to $24.00. Click on image to enlarge.
Coffee and Tea Set
Here is a lovely vintage clip art coffee and tea set. The images are from The Wanamaker Stores 1903-4 Holiday Catalogue. This set includes a coffee pot (top left), a tea pot (top right), cream pitcher, sugar bowl and spoon holder. Click on image to enlarge
Vintage Cuckoo Clock ~ Free Clip Art
Here is a beautiful vintage cuckoo clock image. It’s from the Universal Home Furnishers catalogue published by the Spiegel May Stern Co., 1908. Click on images to enlarge.
Vintage Pumpkin Clip Art ~ Free Graphics
Several varieties of pumpkin, including the winter luxury pumpkin, are detailed and priced in this scanned clipping from the Peter Henderson & Co. Everything for the Garden Manual, 1898. Here is a black and white clip art version of the winter luxury pumpkin that is illustrated in the clipping. Click on images to enlarge.
