Here is a lovely floral endpaper that has aged and yellowed nicely over time. The page is from the book The Sunbeams and Me that was published by Raphael Tuck & Sons in the late 1800s. Click on image to enlarge.
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Victorian Tea Time ~ Free Clip Art
Here is an interesting page, titled Social Observances, from a Victorian ladies’ magazine. The page includes an illustration of two women, seated at a small table, drinking tea. The main article on the page gives detailed information regarding wedding customs of the day. One detail states that invitations should be sent out two weeks in…
Ornamental Typography ~ Free Vintage Graphic
Here is a beautiful sample of ornamental typography. The page is titled Specimen of Ornamental Lettering Showing Use of Old English Text. I scanned the original from Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms, by Thos. E. Hill. The book was published in 1886. The wording on this beautiful specimen of ornamental typography is: Fireman’s Herald,PRIZE.WHEREASTHE PUBLISHERS OF THEFireman’s Herald,OFNew…
Victorian Mother and Baby Lullaby
This vintage book page includes two poems: Lullaby by Alfred Tennyson and Rock me to Sleep, Mother by Florence Percy. There is also an illustration of a Victorian mother cradling her baby in a rocking chair beside an open window. It is evening and through the open window we can see a large full moon…
Free Vintage Clip Art School Book Pages
Here are a few aged and shabby book pages from a vintage school reader. The lessons are about a boy who has a bat, a ball, and a dog and a girl who has a doll and a cat. The lessons include printing and handwriting text and and illustrations of the boy, the bat, the…
Boats of Various Climes ~ Free Vintage Image
Here is a vintage book plate titled Boats of Various Climes. The page includes illustrations of: a Chinese Junk, Indian Canoe, Dutch Fishing-Boat, Esquimaux Kayak, Dory, Modern Yacht, Catamaran, English Fishing-Boat, Motor Boat, Haida Indian Canoe, Thames Range, Venetian Gondola, and a Mediterranean Felucca. The art is by F. E. Wright. The page is from a dictionary in…
Penmanship Handwriting Specimens ~ Free Printable Vintage Book Page
The title on this old book page is Specimens of Handwriting and featured on the page are several samples of penmanship. The names written on the page show the improvement, by home practice, of those following the self-teaching penmanship system as given in the book this page is from and also from Gaskell’s Compendium. The page…
Wings Book Plate and Clip Art ~ Free Vintage Graphics
If I would have been the one to write the book these beautiful images of wings are from, I would have called these: Angel Wing No. 1 and Angel Wing No. 2. However, the author determines these to be: The Wing of a Duck (No. 1) and The Wing of a Wild Goose (No. 2). The…
Old Book Page and Elephant Clip Art ~ Free Vintage Graphics
This vintage page includes a guide for drawing an elephant and instructions for A Jumbo Party which essentially is a game of pin the trunk on the elephant while blindfolded. Also on this page is a poem titled, Counting the Raindrops. The page is from the January 1890 issue of the American Agriculturist magazine. Here is a…
The Liberty Bell by E. S. Brooks
THE LIBERTY BELL BY E. S. BROOKS. I – PHILADELPHIA, 1776. SQUARELY prim and stoutly built, Free from glitter and from gilt, Plain, – from lintel up to roof-tree and to belfry bare and brown – Stands the Hall that hot July, – While the folk throng anxious by, – Where the Continental Congress meets…
Vintage Ice Cream Recipes ~ Free Digital Graphics
These five aged and yellowed vintage cookbook pages include a variety of recipes for homemade ice-cream. There are some common types of ice-cream recipes included on these pages, such as: Chocolate Ice Cream, Strawberry Ice Cream and Vanilla Ice Cream. And then there are some that I’ve never heard of, such as: Biscuit Ice Cream, Brown Bread Ice…
Robin and Boy Vintage School Reader Page ~ Free Digital Image
This shabby page, from a vintage school reader, includes an image of a boy talking to a robin in a tree. The boy wants the robin to play with him. Mr. Robin cannot play because he has three baby robins in the nest to help take care of. I scanned the page from Child Life, A…
