Here is a wonderful silhouette of a Victorian boy in his nightgown and cap, walking with a lit candle in his hand. His dog is walking in front of the boy. The image is a stencil from the Priscilla Fancy Work Catalogue, 1910. Click on image to enlarge.
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Santa Brings Toys ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here are two aged and shabby pages from a vintage school reader. The featured words on the pages are: sled, hear, think, noise, Santa Claus, Good-by, down, up, slide and hill. The lessons include Santa bringing toys for the children and a young boy going to school with his new sled that he received as a…
Letter for Santa ~ Clapsaddle Postcard Image
This fun vintage postcard, by Ellen Clapsaddle, features a shy child, dressed in blue, passing a letter to Santa. Santa is carrying a bag full of toys. The message on the card is: Best Wishes for a happy Christmas. Click on image to enlarge.
Victorian Boy on Fence ~ Free Graphic
This vintage advertising card features an image of an adorable Victorian boy sitting on a rugged fence. He is holding a sprig of holly and berries. Although bits of snow cover the fence rail, the bench the boy’s feet are resting on and the trees in the background, it must not be a cold day…
Fairytale Princess ~ Vintage Storybook Clip Art
This vintage storybook illustration is from an old, uncommon, story of Jack and the Beanstalk. In the story, Jack made a trade with an elf: an apple for a hatful of magic beans. Immediately after Jack planted the magic beans in his garden, a tall beanstalk grew; Jack and the elf climbed the beanstalk together….
Fisk Tires Winter Scene ~ Free Vintage Graphics
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for Fisk tires. The ad features an illustration of a winter scene, with four young boys admiring the tires on a car parked outside a Fisk Tires garage. A woman is seated in the car and a man (perhaps her husband) is outside the vehicle, standing beside the mechanic, on…
Love Birds ~ Free Vintage Storybook Illustration
This vintage storybook illustration, titled Love Birds, features a young girl named Evie, and young boy named Jack, standing beside the cage of two turquoise-colored love birds. Jack is offering a piece of chickweed to one of the birds and the Evie is feeding the other bird a lump of sugar. The image is from…
Vintage Vegetable Crate Label ~ Free Image
Here is a vintage crate label for Big Patch brand of selected vegetables. The illustration on the label features a boy leaning over a fence looking out onto a large field of vegetables. He is wearing a yellow straw hat, a red and white striped tee shirt and overalls that have been patched at the…
Clapsaddle Christmas Postcard ~ Free Vintage Image
This vintage Christmas postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle features two adorable children outdoors; they are dressed warm for the winter weather. The girl is carrying a bundle of mistletoe and the boy is carrying a wreath of holly and berries. A message at the top of the card is: A Merry Christmas and another message at…
Comfortable Morris Rocker ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage catalogue advertisement for a most comfortable Morris Rocker. A special feature of this chair was the automatic reclining back. With a turn of the hand nut on the side of the chair, the back of the chair would recline to any position desired. The price of the chair was $10.35 for…
On The Wall Top 2 ~ Free Kate Greenaway Image
ON THE WALL TOP. SO high – so high on the wall we run, The nearer the sky – why, the nearer the sun. If you give me one penny, I’ll give you two, For that’s the way good neighbours do. This vintage storybook image and poem, On The Wall Top (spelling and grammar as it is…
Victorian Boy Carrying Flowers ~ Free Vintage Image
This vintage postcard features a well-dressed Victorian boy carrying flowers. He has a basket of pretty pink flowers balanced on his left shoulder and is holding, in his right hand, a green watering pail that is filled with a few more of the pretty pink flowers. The message on the postcard is: Heartiest Congratulations. Here…