Here is an antique cabinet card photograph of a handsome Victorian boy. He is dressed in a pin-stripe suit jacket, matching shorts, dress shirt and large bow tie at the collar of his shirt. Click on image to enlarge.
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Victorian Children New Year Postcard
Here is a cute vintage New Year postcard, illustrated by Ellen Clapsaddle. A Victorian boy and girl are each seated on a chair beside a table that has been set for tea. The boy is dressed in a golden-brown colored knickers suit and holding a red hat on his lap. He is shyly looking downward. The…
Victorian Boy Plum Pudding Postcard
This vintage Christmas postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle features an adorable Victorian boy with curly blonde hair, dressed in red, white, and blue. The boy is standing on a wooden chair at the table, making him tall enough to place a sprig of holly and berries into the centre of the baked Christmas pudding that is…
St. Nicholas Will Soon be Here
This vintage Christmas illustration features a boy, dressed in medieval attire, riding a horse. The boy is carrying an ornately decorated, medieval-style banner that displays the poem: St. Nicholas will soon be hereHe brings you love, he brings you cheer,A merrie Christmas,A glad New Year. Here is a black and white clip art version. I…
Victorian Boy Valentine Postcard
This vintage Valentine’s Day postcard features a head and shoulders illustration of an adorable Victorian boy, wearing a green and white striped shirt and lime green bow tie, within a large red heart. The greeting on the card is: Twas nice of St. ValentineTo give me a dayOn which I have the nerve to sayThat…
Clapsaddle Christmas Children
This vintage Christmas postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle features three adorable Victorian children happily bursting through an open door from outdoors. The children have been outside gathering decorations from nature. The boy in the group is dragging in a small evergreen tree, the eldest of the two girls is carrying a large sprig of holly and…
Clapsaddle Kids Thanksgiving Pie
I purchased this adorable vintage Thanksgiving postcard online recently, hoping it would arrive by Thanksgiving Day celebrated in the United States last week; however, it just arrived in my mailbox today. I quickly scanned and digitally cleaned it up, hoping that some of you may still be working on Thanksgiving scrapbooking or journaling memories and…
How Polite by Oscar Pletsch
This vintage engraving, by Oscar Pletsch, is titled: How Polite. The illustration features a Victorian boy bending to present a young girl a cookie from a plate of cookies he is holding with both hands. The little girl is holding a basket of flowers in one hand and is shyly about to reach out for…
School is Over by Kate Greenaway
SCHOOL is over,Oh, what fun!Lessons finished,Play begun.Who’ll run fastest,You or I?Who’ll laugh loudest?Let us try. Here is a cleaner version of the illustration of school children from the page. This adorable storybook poem and illustration is from Under the Window by Kate Greenaway, circa 1880. Click on images to enlarge.
Boy, Baseball Bat and Ball
Here are clip art illustrations of a Victorian boy, his baseball bat and ball. The images are from Our Little Book for Little Folks, an antique school reader that was published in 1896. Click on images to enlarge.
Playing Grocer
This fun vintage postcard features a young Victorian boy, dressed in red, behind an old fashioned store counter. He is weighing scoops of sugar and there is a stack of canned goods on the counter beside him. The title on the lower left of the postcard is: Playing Grocer. The postcard was printed by Raphael…
Mother and Children at Play
Happy Mother’s Day! Here is a fun vintage illustration of a mother enjoying playtime with her two young children. The mom is seated at the edge of the seat of a cozy chair with her daughter standing at her side. They are enjoying a large book together. A little boy is in the background wearing…
