Betty Bonnet was a popular vintage paper doll in the early 1900s. A series of the paper dolls, created by Sheila Young, was a regular feature in The Ladies’ Home Journal magazine from 1915 to 1918. This page, from the September 1917 issue of The Ladies’ Home Journal features the vintage paper doll: Betty Bonnet’s Grandparents…
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Vintage School Fashions for Children
This magazine page features an article on vintage school fashions for children for the fall of 1907. The article is titled For the School Days and includes an illustration of boys and girls, a total of five children, dressed in their charming new school clothes. Details below the illustration include: the size each pattern is…
Vintage Angel Food Cake Recipes
These three vintage cookbook pages feature recipes for angel food cakes and hints on mixing angel food cake. In addition to the basic angel food cake recipe, other recipes included on the pages are: Marble Angel Food Cake, Russian Roll, Chocolate Angel Food Cake and Tutti Frutti Angel Food Cake. One of the pages includes…
Vintage Beach Fashion
These two magazine pages feature a fun article titled For Surf and Sands. The article discusses the latest sewing patterns for beach fashions, with suggestions for fabrics and colors, for the summer of 1900. Four illustrations of ladies and children on the beach are included on the pages. I scanned the original pages from the…
Call of the Swing Illustrated Poem
This vintage book page features an illustrated poem titled The Call of the Swing by Nancy Byrd Turner. The illustration is that of a beautiful, carefree, young lady swinging on an old fashioned rope swing that is fastened to a blossoming tree. The lady’s hair is in an up do and she is wearing an…
Vintage Butterflies and Congratulations Tracie
This vintage book page features twenty illustrations of colorful butterflies and moths. The name of each butterfly and moth is included above or below the illustrations. A few of the butterflies and moths included on the page are: Laertes Butterfly, Zebra Butterfly, Tiger Swallow Tail Butterfly, Goat Moth, Scarlet Tiger Moth, Monarch Butterfly, and Malachite…
Illustrated Spring Poem Vintage Clip Art
This vintage poetry book page features two short poems and an illustration of a cluster of blue flowers framing a scenic view. A bumblebee is flying toward the flowers. One of the poems on the page is about spring. Here is larger, cleaner version of the image from the page. I scanned the original page…
Free Vintage Butterfly Illustration
This vintage book page features an illustration of one small butterfly in flight. The butterfly is surrounded by white space on the page. Here is a black and white clip art version of the butterfly. I scanned the original book page from an antique book in my collection titled Nearer my God to Thee. The…
Vintage Hot Bread Recipes
This vintage cookbook page includes recipes for: popovers (with alterations for rye popovers and whole wheat popovers), surprise muffins, Georgia Sally Lunn, and butterscotch curls. An illustration of the baked food on a serving platter is included to the left of each recipe on the page. The platter to the left of the Butterscotch Curls…
Victorian Ladies Coat Illustration
This page features an illustration of a lovely Victorian lady looking through a large window onto a street that is busy with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages. The lady is modelling a full-length ladies’ long coat. She is positioned to show the side back view of the elegant coat, which has a tall, stiff collar and…
Vintage School Reader Printable
This printable winter and Christmas lesson from a vintage school reader features the words: popcorn, always, brought, hole, box, saved, rubbed, smell, glad and best. The lesson tells a story of two small mice, named Frolic and Frisk, having a discussion about the school children who attend the school room where Frolic lives. While admiring…
Victorian Girls Winter Fashion
This page features Victorian fashions for girls in the winter of 1900. An illustration on the upper portion of the page features two girls exchanging gifts. The girl on the left is wearing a pretty brown coat and large hat with a red brim and green bow. The girl on the right is wearing a…
