Here are two vintage milk bottle caps. The colors on both are white, red and blue.The first milk cap is for pasteurized whipping cream and was printed for Maple View Farm Dairy in Moscow, PA. The second milk cap is for Grade A raw milk and was printed for Hartwig Dairy in Woodland. Click on…
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Rose Hill Dairy Milk Tickets
Here is a grouping of fourteen vintage Rose Hill Dairy milk tickets. The faded green tickets are connected by perforated lines that have never been separated. Each milk ticket was redeemable for one pint of milk. Here is an individual milk ticket separate from the group of tickets. Click on image to enlarge.
Preserve Jar Labels Open Booklet
Yesterday on my blog I shared the front cover of this well-worn vintage Preserve Jar Labels booklet. Today I’m sharing the open booklet. Some of the first pages that were in the booklet have been torn out and the partially-torn pages that remain are glued together from the adhesive that appears to have been dampened in…
Preserve Jar Labels Booklet Cover
Featured on the cover of this well-worn vintage Preserve Jar Labels booklet is a woman in a plaid dress and red apron holding up a jar of canned peaches. There are more jars of canned vegetables, fruit and jellies on a high shelf behind the woman and a few more jars of canned foods on…
Picnic Basket Clip Art
This vintage magazine clipping promotes the use of a portable wicker picnic basket (referred to as a fruit package) “for packing fruit, game, vegetables, bottled liquids, meat, and any of those things which we put up in the square or oblong crates.” Here is a black and white clip art version of the open and…
Vintage Bay Rum Label
Here is beautifully designed and colorful vintage label for Bay Rum. The rum contained 37% grain alcohol and was guaranteed by Phil Eisemann under the Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906. Here is a matching neck bottle label. Click on images to enlarge.
Tray of Sweets
Here is a vintage clip art illustration of a delicious looking tray of sweets. The desserts on the platter include: individual lemon pies, open fruit tartlets, chocolate eclairs, and covered currant jelly tartlets. The image is from Balanced Daily Diet, 1921, by Janet McKenzie Hill. Click on image to enlarge.
Chef Cooking Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage clip art illustration of a chef happily cooking in his kitchen. The image is from the December 1892 issue of St. Nicholas magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
Antique Wine Decanters Clip Art
Here are two clip art illustrations of elegant antique wine decanters. The images are from The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue, published for the proprietors, by George Virtue in London, 1851. Click on images to enlarge.
Victorian Lady Serving Food
This vintage clip art illustration features a Victorian lady serving food. She is carrying a soup tureen to the dining table. The image is from the December 1892 issue of St. Nicholas magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
New England Mince Meat Advertisement
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for Dougherty’s New England Mince Meat. The ad includes an illustration of a package of mincemeat with a basket of fruit sketched on the side. Mincemeat is used to make pie, especially during the Christmas season. Here is a black and white clip art version of the illustration from…
Victorian Girl Baking Plum Pudding
This adorable vintage postcard features a sweet Victorian girl doing some Christmas baking. She is wearing a red and white dress, a white scarf tied over her hair and a much-too-large blue and white gingham apron that probably belongs to her mother. The girl is using a wooden spoon to stir ingredients in a large…
