Godey's Lady's Book Fashion Plate

Godey's Lady's Book was a magazine for women, published in Philadelphia between 1830 and 1878. The magazine is best known for the hand-tinted fashion plate that appeared at the start of each issue. This one is from the April 1850 magazine, showing off the latest Spring fashion!

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La Mode Illustrée - French Fashion

I have a few very old La Mode Illustrée issues and this is one of my favorite illustrations from 1868. The papers are pretty much falling apart so I'm trying to very carefully scan them.

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Vintage Shabby Rose Card

This was an old Christmas postcard that I shabbied up for you.  This would make a really pretty greeting card, a background for a collage, or even a journal card.

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Halloween Pumpkin Witch Postcard Free Download

This is one of the slightly less common pumpkin girl postcards that Whitney published. I have no idea what the black hoodoo is, maybe the magic she's cooking up in the cauldron? Anyway, hope you like it!!

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Vintage Shabby Journal Card with Baby Birds

This postcard features a pair of vintage angry birds! I think they're really cute. I added a background and thought it would make a pretty journal card.

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Vintage Butterfly Card

We've had so many pretty butterflies in the backyard this summer. Big Monarchs, and Swallowtails. I was really happy to find this postcard full of flutterbys! I added an aged background. Hope you like it!!

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Vintage Busy Bees ABC Children's Book

This is one of the many children's books that were published by Raphael Tuck in the early part of the 1900s. One of my favorite things about this illustration is the way Busy Bees is drawn. Hope you like it!

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Vintage Halloween Precautions Postcard

The elusive E. Nash was a postcard publisher around the early 1910s and is famous for his series of Halloween postcards, both the Halloween Don'ts, and Halloween Precautions. This is one of the 6 Precautions postcards. He also published many other holiday cards.

The Don'ts and Precautions are all really quirky. This one says: Avoid grinning black cats on a full green moon, If your lover is true he'll come back soon, It breaks the charm, the witches scream, and never return till next Halloween.

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Weaver Witch

Sometimes my favorite Halloween cards aren't the most colorful. I adore this one because of the design, poem, and the lettering. This was drawn by E. Weaver, and I can't find any information about him or her. I know that they illustrated a series of postcards like this one, all with similar ink work. Hope you like this!

It also has one of those cute little turn of the century red roofed houses in the corner. I'm estimating this card as maybe 1910 or so? I could be wrong :-)

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Vintage Victorian Trade Card - Witch Hazel

Such a pretty witch hazel trade card, you don't even notice that it's for piles (hemorrhoids) :-D

I love the smell of witch hazel. On really hot days I'll sometimes put it on my horse after he's had a bath. Makes him smell great!

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Vintage Halloween Witch Postcard - Falls Down a Hill

This Halloween postcard was published by Whitney, but I'm still trying to find out the name of the artist. Kind of like a Jack and Jill scene, I thought it was really sweet! 

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Vintage Violet Basket Postcard

This pretty basket of violets was from an old postcard. I added a frame. I think it would make a nice card! Free to download for personal use.


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Dolly Dingle Paper Dolls

I shared a Grace Drayton Halloween postcard yesterday. She is also famous for her Dolly Dingle paper dolls that were published for years in the Pictoral Review magazine. There are lots of reproductions out there, but this is a scan from the original magazine, dated around the early 1930s. Scan quality isn't great, but it should print fine!  

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Grace Drayton Vintage Halloween Postcard - Girl and Pumpkin

So I'm sneaking in more Halloween, I can't help it! This postcard was published by Raphael Tuck in 1913, and while it's not signed, this is definitely by Grace Drayton. She studied at the Drexel University School of Design for Women here in Philadelphia. She went on to create the famous Campbell's kids in 1904 (which this little girl is no doubt related!). She worked as a freelance artist, and is also famous for the Dolly Dingle paper dolls. I'll post some of those later on this week.

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This is a late 19th century raisin label. Who knew there used to be raisin vineyards! This design is so elegant. I love the grape leaf border, and of course I always love roses!! This scan is a little grainy, sorry - but it will print fine. Free to download for personal use!

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Sneaking in another Halloween image! This one was published by Raphael Tuck, and the artist is Frances Brundage. She is known for painting adorable children, and besides doing postcards she illustrated several story books. Hope you like this one!

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Sweet peas are so pretty! The original image was in black and white and I added a little color. Free to download for personal use.

In yesterday's post I said I'd try to find one of Raphael Tuck's children's books. Here you go :-)!

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I'm a little late again today. I took my horse out for a ride before it got hot. He was actually more interested in staying with his friends and munching grass, and he let me know that several times on the walk :-) He has built in barn GPS!!!

I love this Raphael Tuck postcard. Raphael Tuck & Sons, based in London, was the world's largest postcard publisher during the late 19th and early 20th century. They also made wonderful children's books, and when I find some, I'll post them for you.

His animal postcards are beautiful. Hope you like this one! I put it on an aged background for you.

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So it's getting closer to Halloween (yeah, I know it's only July, but I like to anticipate!). I'm working on fall crafts already, and if you are too, I thought you might like this. The pumpkin label is from the late 1800's and is one of the best examples of decorative advertising, in my opinion. Here it is in full color, and with an aged background. Free to download for personal use.

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