This vintage cookbook page includes recipes for coffee cake, fruit bread, corn bread and cinnamon buns. A colorful illustration of each of the baked goods, ready to serve, is included to the right of the recipes on the page. I scanned the original page from Any one can Bake, published by the Royal Baking Powder Co. in 1929 (copyright was not renewed). Click…
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Free Printable Antique Poem Margarita
This printable antique poem is titled Margarita. It corresponds to the illustration of the Victorian lady Margarita that I posted to my blog this morning. I scanned the illustration and this poem from a magazine that was published 175 years ago. The pages within the magazine naturally and beautifully validate their old age. Although I…
Free Vintage Luncheon Recipe Graphics
This nine page vintage article titled Ladies’ Luncheons by Janet M. Hill includes two menus, with accompanying recipes, to successfully host a luncheon for ladies – early 1900s style. The first eight pages of this article (and other pages in the magazine that included photographs) were published on a paper that is glossier than the…
Ornamental Victorian Script Alphabet
This beautiful ornamental Victorian alphabet (initial script) was designed for engraving, fancy needlework, etc. Most of our modern-day alphabet is included on the two pages except the letters “X” and “I” or “J” Perhaps the letter included, whether it is intended to be an “I” or “J”, is interchangeable. I scanned the original pages from Hill’s…
Victorian Social Code
When I posted the Second Cotillon Victorian dance invitation a couple days ago, I was asked by a blog reader how that type of invitation worked. When I went in search of the answer, I found the entire article the invitation was part of to be very interesting. In many respects, the world was a much…
Shabby Antique Fashion Pages
Here are two shabby antique fashion pages that include ten illustrations of models dressed in a variety of ladies’ clothing from the early Victorian era. The pages are from the January 1842 issue of The New Monthly Belle Assemblee. Click on images to enlarge.
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…
Franklin Sugar Cookbook Pages
Here are two aged and shabby vintage cookbook pages that include images of a woman testing the temperature of heated sugar, a food scale set out with a marble board and candy-making tools, and a young lady in a blue and white plaid bonnet and apron carrying a basket filled with groceries. The pages also…
Free Vintage Grunge Texture
Here are three well-aged grunge texture papers. They are endpapers I scanned from a couple volumes of Familiar Garden Flowers, circa 1897. Click on images to enlarge.
Apple Description and Clip Art
Here are two pages from an antique encyclopedia that include the description for Apple, a popular fall fruit. I thought the aged pages might be useful for junk journals or scrapbooking. Here is a black and white clip art version of the branch of apples illustration from the first page. Click on images to enlarge….
Free Vintage Texture Red Marbled
This unique shabby red endpaper is marbled with dark yellow and cream colored bubble shapes and has black and white veins of color running throughout. Click on image to enlarge. The original page is from The Teachers’ and Pupils” Cyclopaedia, 1905.
December by K. Pyle ~ Vintage Poem
December by K. Pyle On Christmas day, when fires were lit,And all our breakfasts done,We spread our toys out on the floorAnd played there in the sun. The nursery smelled of Christmas tree,And under where it stoodThe shepherds watched their flocks of sheep,– All made of painted wood. Outside the house the air was coldAnd…
