Vintage Postcard Back

Here is a vintage postcard back that would be cool to use as a journal card, or for some random ephemera in your craft projects.

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Vintage Seed Advertisement Card

I added a grungy background to this ad for vegetable seeds. I love the illustration - it's circa 1920.

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Vintage Seed Envelope

This seed packet is from around 1910, and would make a great gardening junk journal pocket!

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Vintage Rose - Journal Card

This was a vintage Christmas postcard that was originally published by Raphael Tuck. I removed the words so that you could use it as a journal card (or whatever!)

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Vintage Childrens Book Illustration

This gorgeous children's book illustration is from Lilliput Lyrics, illustrated by Charles Robinson, and published, in 1899.

The image is in the public domain :-)

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French Soap Label

I hope that you like this vintage early 1900 soap wrapper image as much as I do!

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Baby's own Aesop - Walter Crane

This sweet illustration is from The Baby's own Aesop, illustrated by Walter Crane and published in 1881 (or there about). The illustration is in the public domain. Hope you love it as much as I do!

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Vintage Bird Illustration

This black and white bird illustration is from the book "Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds" by Edward Forbush.

An extremely verbose title for a book! It was published in 1913.

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Little Red Riding Hood - 1904-ish

I have so many Little Red images that I can't remember what I've posted!! Sorry if this is a repeat!

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Vintage Birthday Postcard

aving a Birthday joy ride! This pretty postcard was gold embossed, but it's faded over the years. Free to use for your craft projects!

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Redoute Botanical Print - Sunflowers

This beautiful botanical print was painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté(1759-1840 ) and is courtesy of Rawpixel Ltd. This image has a Creative Commons license (2.0) and you can do anything you want with it as long as you attribute the artist and Rawpixel who did the image restoration.

Hope you have fun with this gorgeous print!!

Pretty Bird Palette Trade Card

This pretty palette is a trade card for a dry goods store! I love it!

Free to download for personal use.

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Cinderella here's your coach!

"Now Cinderella, here's your coach..." from Walter Crane's illustrated book. This is courtesy of the New York Public Library, and in the public domain!

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A 1908 Day at the Beach

The latest swim suits circa 1908 for fashion conscious beach going ladies! These postcards were published by Raphael Tuck. They're actually pretty cute, I love them!

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Pretty Bird Postcard

I've been a little AWOL for a few days, so sorry about that. I've had a bunch of Halloween stuff to get finished. I'll post pictures later on today for you to take a peek.

This gorgeous bird postcard was illustrated by Elsie Sitler in 1912. Hope that you can use it!

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Lydia Pinkham Trade Card

This pretty trade card advertised Lydia Estes Pinkham's (February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) famous women's tonic. Some thought it was quack medicine, but a few of the ingredients are still used today. It also contained a lot of alcohol, which probably helped more than anything!

The tonic contained Butterfly weed, Black Cohosh, Golden Ragwort (not ragweed), and Fenugreek - all of these have anti-inflammatory properties, and Black Cohosh is still used for menopausal issues.
I have 2 versions for you - with and without the ad!
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Happy 4th from Uncle Sam!

I hope everyone has a wonderful 4th! Enjoy the day!

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Antique Apple Botanical Print

This is another gorgeous botanical print from the US Dept. of Agriculture. Artist is Elsie Lower, and this watercolor was done in 1908.

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Victorian Corset Advertisement

Victorian corsetry is pretty interesting, if you look at antique advertising there are so many different kinds that cinch you up! I can't imagine wearing one.

I'm busy working on Halloween stuff and haven't had time to make freebies so I'm grabbing some images for you from some excellent public domain sites. This one is courtesy of the Boston Public Library.

Antique Audubon Bird Print

I have a ton of Blue Jays in my back yard. I give them unsalted peanuts every day, and they wait for me! Makes me feel kind of special :-)

This gorgeous print is from Birds of America published in 1827, by JJ Audubon. The illustration was drawn by Robert Havell (1793 - 1878). This print was restored by RawPixel Ltd. and is free to use as long as the above attribution is added.

This image can be shared under a Creative Commons 2.0 license (read above).

Hope you have fun with it! Would look great in a bird themed junk journal!

Vintage Strawberry Print

This gorgeous strawberry watercolor print was illustrated by Ellen Isham Schutt in 1911 and was part a project started by the US Government beginning in 1886 - 1940s to commission 7,500 paintings and sculptures of every known fruit. It made jobs available to about 65 American artists to “document the thousands and thousands of varieties of heirloom and experimental fruit cultivars sprouting up nationwide.” The fruit watercolors were made public domain by the US Department of Agriculture.

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Vintage French Soap Wrapper

This pretty vintage French soap label would be a nice background for a card.

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Victorian Calling Cards

I found more calling cards in my stash. The top is a hidden calling card with the name under the scrap. It would be amazing if someone out there finds this and is related to Maud!

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Vintage Bookmark

This bookmark doubles as a trade card! Allentown is about an hour from me, so it's fun to find something from a relatively local business.

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Victorian Hidden Calling Card

This is a scan of another very cool calling card from my stash. What is fun about this one is the little scrap on the front bends back, and the name is engraved underneath. It's a hidden calling card. I didn't want to scan the name because it would have damaged the scrap. This is the original scan, I didn't do any photoshop.

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Victorian Calling Card

This is another scan from the big Victorian stash I bought. There were several calling cards, and I love how colorful this one is. I left the top one as is, and fixed the bottom one. Not sure what that spill was but it's gone :-D

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Niagara Starch Trade Card

This pretty Niagara Starch trade card features some really cute kids!

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Victorian Girl

This pretty Victorian scrap was a gift from Annie to Louise. I wish we still sent cards to each other just because :-D

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Victorian Rose Card

More from the Victorian stash! I love this gorgeous rose card, it's a scrap and was a gift from one friend to another.

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Victorian Girl

Another Victorian scrap from the big pile on my floor! This one features a girl with what might be a shell held to her ear, but it might also be a cell phone? Hope you can use it!

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Victorian Scrap - Birds in a Nest

I was a bad girl and bought a huge lot of Victorian ephemera. Well, not that bad maybe :-) I fell in love with this bird card immediately! It was a gift from one child to another, as written on the back. I just scanned it and left it as is, no photoshop!!

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Vintage Ice Cream Die Cut

Sorry this is late, I've been scanning 1950s ice cream all morning! I have about 30 of these die cuts that I've always meant to scan but forgot. Hope you like this dish of chocolate!

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Vintage Bee Illustrations

I've been making a lot of bee graphics for my shop, and I found this one in an old Russian (I think, the print looked like cryllic) book. I thought this would be fun to play with :-)

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Vintage Lavender Perfume Label

I collect vintage perfume labels. The deco styled labels are some of my favorites. Hope you can use this gorgeous lavender one!

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Vintage Rose Catalog

This gorgeous rose catalog was printed in 1896. I'm sorry it's only a partial picture of the cover, but it was so pretty I figured why not :-D

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French Fairy Postcard

 hope you like this beautiful fairy postcard that was published in France, I think it was pretty early 1900s

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Vintage Seed Catalog Image

Old seed catalogs have the best graphics! Hope that you can use this!

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Happy Memorial Day

Sorry I'm a bit late with this today. I wanted to make sure that I posted this gorgeous Memorial Day postcard. I hope everyone's day was wonderful. There aren't enough thank you's for all of our fallen heroes.

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Vintage Memorial Day Postcard

Memorial day postcards are a little harder to find, but I love this one by Ellen Clapsaddle.

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VIntage Red Bird Postcard

I don't have a date for this pretty bird postcard, but it doesn't have a divided back, so I think it's before 1907. The post office required divided backs with a designated spot for the address after this time.

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Modern Priscilla Magazine Cover

Here is a scan of my copy of a 1911 issue of Modern Priscilla, a needlework magazine full of the current fashion (for 1911 that is!!).

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Free Junk Journal Dress Scraps

I made some dress silhouettes this morning with grungy backgrounds. These can be decorated with fabric scraps, beads, lace, and paper bits for journals and tags. I hope that you have fun with them!

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Vintage Rose Illustration

This gorgeous image is from the book Roses and Rose Culture published in 1892. Hope you can use it!

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