Here are catalogue listings for two styles of antique washing machines. The first is a rotary washer named the Perfection Washer. The cost was $6.75 and the ad guaranteed this to be the finest washing machine in the world. Here is a black and white clip art version of the Perfection Washer. The second washer…
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Hanging Doll Clothes
This adorable vintage engraving, by Oscar Pletsch, features two little girls hanging doll clothes, on a makeshift clothesline, to dry. The illustration is from Little Folks and Little Friends by Oscar Pletsch, circa 1880. Click on image to enlarge.
Girls Washing Doll Clothes ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
This adorable vintage engraving, by Oscar Pletsch, features two little girls washing doll clothes in a big old wooden tub. The illustration is from Little Folks and Little Friends by Oscar Pletsch, circa 1880. Click on image to enlarge.
Woman Ironing Clothes ~ Free Vintage Graphics
This vintage image shows a woman ironing her clothes the old fashioned way. Before electricity, sadirons were commonly used for the job. The iron would have to be heated on a wood or coal burning stove until it was hot enough to take creases out of the clothing. Here is a black and white clip…
Antique Clothing Iron ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is an antique catalogue listing for a set of nickel-plated sadirons. These old irons were heated near an open fire or on a coal or wood burning stove to make them hot enough to remove creases from clothing. The old ad is from the Sears Roebuck and Co. 1916 catalogue. Here is a black and white clipart…
Antique Washing Machine Catalogue Listing ~ Free Graphics
Here is an antique catalogue listing for a high speed wizard washing machine. The listing includes an image of a woman working the machine. The old ad is from the Sears Roebuck and Co. 1916 catalogue. Here is a black and white clip art version of the image from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Free Clothes Drier Clip Art
This vintage clothes drier image is from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, circa 1888. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Washing Machine Clip Art
Just six minutes to wash a tubful makes the 1900 Gravity Washer “almost” fun to work it! This vintage washing machine advertisement is from the May 1909 issue of McCall’s Magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of the washer. Click on images to enlarge.
Clothes Iron ~ Free Vintage Clip Art
Here is a vintage magazine advertisement for an American Beauty iron that was manufactured by the American Electrical Heater Co. The ad is from the September 6, 1917 issue of Hardware Age. Plus a black and white clip art version of the iron from the ad. Click on images to enlarge.
Vintage Muzzy’s Starch Trading Card
There are pleasant fall days ahead in our weather forecast but it’s chilly here today. Chilly enough that we are getting our first snowfall of the season! It won’t last (thank goodness) but it’s a visual reminder that our cold Canadian winter isn’t so far off. The image on this Victorian trading card for Muzzy’s Starch makes snow look…
Miss Molly and the Little Fishes by Kate Greenaway
This vintage storybook image, Miss Molly and the Little Fishes, is from Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway, 1892. Click on image to enlarge.
