This delightful vintage Christmas postcard by Frances Brundage features an adorable girl in a pink dress and white pinafore cuddling and admiring her cute dolly who is dressed in blue. The girl is seated and a prettily wrapped Christmas gift is placed on the floor by her feet. The greeting on the card is: A Merry…
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Santa Delivering Gifts by Ellen Clapsaddle
This vintage Christmas postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle includes an image of a little girl sound asleep with a doll tucked under one arm and another doll behind her back. A teddy bear is on a chair beside the bed. Santa has arrived with a bag of toys strapped to his back. He is pulling a…
Clapsaddle Girl in Red Dress Postcard
In a blog post I wrote in December 2011, I mentioned that I was looking for a particular vintage Ellen Clapsaddle Thanksgiving postcard. That postcard includes an adorable young girl, in a red dress and white pinafore, holding a wooden spoon. On shelving behind her are two large pies, a covered sugar bowl, a pitcher and a…
Retro Girl and Doll Christmas Card
This retro Christmas greeting card, from the early 1950s, includes an adorable image of a cute little girl and her sweet dolly sharing a cuddle. The girl is sitting on a short red stool in front of a Christmas tree. The message on the front of the card is: Merry Christmas to you. Here is…
Kate Greenaway Susan Blue ~ Free Vintage Illustration
SUSAN BLUE OH, Susan Blue,How do you do?Please may I go for a walk with you?Where shall we go?Oh, I know –Down in the meadow where the cowslips grow! This vintage storybook image and poem, Susan Blue, is from Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway, circa 1892. Click on image to enlarge.
Kate Greenaway The Little Jumping Girls ~ Free Vintage Illustration
THE LITTLE JUMPING GIRLS JUMP-jump-jump-Jump awayFrom this town intoThe next, to-day. Jump-jump-jumpJump over the moon;Jump all the morning,And all the noon. This vintage storybook image and poem, The Little Jumping Girls, is from Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway, circa 1892. Click on image to enlarge.
Free Vintage Christmas Postcard Image ~ Santa Delivering Gifts by Plane
Here is a fun John Winsch vintage Christmas postcard that features Santa delivering gifts from a biplane. A girl and boy, eager with anticipation, are standing on a balcony catching their gifts from Santa as he flies by. The greeting on the postcard is: Joyful Christmas. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Christmas Postcard Girl and Kittens ~ Free Graphic
Here is a vintage Christmas postcard that features a cute girl sitting on a wooden fence. The girl is wearing a pretty pink dress, a crown of pink flowers on her head and she is holding two pink flowers in her right hand. She is looking toward the ground below where two kittens are playing…
Kate Greenaway Blue Shoes ~ Free Vintage Illustration
BLUE SHOES LITTLE Blue ShoesMustn’t goVery far alone, you know.Else she’ll fall down,Or, lose her way;Fancy – whatWould mamma say?Better put her little handUnder sister’s wise command.When she’s a little older grownBlue Shoes may go quite alone. This vintage storybook image and poem, Blue Shoes, is from Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway, circa 1892. Click on image to…
Victorian Children Christmas Postcard ~ Free Graphic
This vintage Christmas postcard features a young boy and girl walking together under a red umbrella. The boy is holding the umbrella with both hands and the girl has her hands tucked into a white muff. They look adorable in their green and white Victorian dress clothes. The message at the bottom of the card…
Shyness by Oscar Pletsch ~ Free Vintage Graphic
SHYNESS This very modest-looking little maid Never knows what it is to be afraid: Should a spring bubble up across her way, For help to ford it she will never stay, But leaps right over it with secret joy; Her gallant spirit might befit a boy. Why does she droop her head so shyly now?…
Vintage Baby Clip Art ~ A Little Journey
This baby girl is about to go on a little journey. She is dressed, packed and waiting. Her doll is cuddled under her left arm, she’s holding an umbrella in her right hand and a large tagged suitcase is by her side. The illustration is from the book Our Dear Baby published by Richard G. Krueger in 1916. Click on…
