Here is a wonderful fall harvest display of vegetables. Included in the display are: onions, cabbage, turnips, celery, cauliflower, cucumbers, squash, potatoes and carrots. The image is from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa 1888. Click on image to enlarge.
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Perfume Spray Bottle Atomizer Clip Art
Here is a beautifully styled vintage perfume atomizer. It was bright silver plated with a silk net rubber ball, 7 inches high and cost $4.25. The image is from the H. O’Neill & Co. 1897-8 Fall & Winter Fashion Catalogue. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Butterfly Chatelette Pin Clip Art
Here is a lovely vintage butterfly (or moth?) brooch. The image is from a 1907 catalogue that describes this piece of jewelry as a fancy chatelette that could be used for a lace pin. It was gold plated with a bright polish and the cost was 11 cents, 6 for 59 cents or 12 for…
Free Vintage Porcelain Clock Clip Art
Here is a clip art image of a beautifully decorated porcelain clock. It’s from the H. O’Neill & Co. 1897-8 Fall & Winter Fashion Catalogue. The cost of the clock in the catalogue was $7.98. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Image ~ Toy Train Clip Art
This vintage listing for a toy train is from the 1916 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue. This set came with a red engine and tender and cost $1.00. A tender is a rail car that carries wood, coal or oil and water to keep the locomotive running for long distances (I had to look that…
Fork Spoon Knife Cutlery Clip Art
This vintage set of cutlery clip art includes a fork, a spoon and a knife, in a beautiful ornamental swirly pattern. The image is from the H. O’Neill & Co. 1897-8 Fall & Winter Fashion Catalogue. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Clothes Drier Clip Art
This vintage clothes drier image is from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa 1888. Click on image to enlarge.
Woman Cooking Clip Art
Here is a vintage clip art image of a woman cooking. She is standing at the table measuring a spoonful of an ingredient to add to her pan. The image is from the February 1912 issue of Pictorial Review. Click on image to enlarge.
Brass Banquet Lamp #4
This is the twelfth and final table lamp image from the H. O’Neill & Co. 1897-8 Fall & Winter Fashion Catalogue. It’s a Brass Banquet Lamp and cost $3.95 with the globe. Without the globe it was $2.95. The previous lamp I posted from the catalogue is available on my blog HERE. Click on image to enlarge.
Combination Spool and Thimble Holder
I think this combination thread spool and thimble holder was a wonderful invention and it would be great if they still made these. This old magazine advertisement is from a supplement to the November 1889 issue of the American Agriculturist magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the image from the…
Chinese Cherry Flowering Branch
This stunning vintage image of a “flowering branch of double white Chinese Cherry (Cerasus Serrulata)”. is from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. Click on image to enlarge.
Brass Banquet Lamp #3
This is the eleventh vintage lamp image I’m sharing from the H. O’Neill & Co. 1897-8 Fall & Winter Fashion Catalogue. It’s a Brass Banquet Lamp with Onyx Column. The lamp, complete with cathedral globe cost $10.75; the lamp without globe was $6.75. The last lamp I posted from the catalogue is available on my blog HERE….
