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Vintage Illustrations of Elegant Table Settings
I’m back! It’s been a while since my last FVI post, but I’m stoked to be back with more vintage images for your projects. We’re in the middle of the holiday season, so I thought I’d revisit one of my favorite public domain resources, Mrs. Beeton’s Household management. In it, you’ll find everything from old-fashioned …
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Antique Scientific Illustrations of Shells
I used to live by the beach and almost always came back home with pockets full of colorful shells. I miss those days, so I decided to dig around the public domain for some really great shell illustrations to clean up and share. There are beautiful scientific illustrations of shells hiding out in dusty science …
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Antique Summer: Vintage Illustrations of Fresh Strawberries
I’m officially obsessed with summer now. Since yesterday, I’ve been on a quest to find and edit classic vintage images for your summer projects. I’m really lucky that so many awesome turn-of-the-century gardening catalogs and magazines featured vibrant illustrations of strawberries on their covers! With that being said, I grabbed my favorite free imaging editing …
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Antique Art Supplies and Vintage Color Charts
It’s almost summer! Time for pools, shorts, soft serve ice cream, and of course, creativity! Summer is the perfect time to finally start that novel, children’s book, animation, or video game. One of my favorite things to do during summer is to paint outside with a simple canvas and easel. Feeling nostalgic, I went on what …
Antique Scientific Illustrations of Early Electronic Medical Equipment
An early fascination with antique scientific illustrations helped inspire me to get into digital curation and archiving. These historic illustrations offer us a fascinating look into how science and medicine were practiced and understood in the 19th century. So much has changed, and it’s exciting to look back at how far science and medicine has …
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Vintage Images for Mothers Day: Antique Rose Illustrations in the Public Domain
Roses are a Mothers Day classic! For this post, I sifted through the Library of Congress online and stumbled upon some really great vintage images from the 19th century, and I used Pixlr to clean them up a bit. For a quick and easy Mothers Day card, just print one out and you’re good to …
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FREE Vintage William Heath Robinson Graphics In Color
William Heath Robinson is one of my favorite artists of the public domain. While searching for new material to curate, I stumbled upon of series of WWI illustrations he created through 1914 and 1918 called “Some Frightful War Pictures.” These unique antique illustrations feature imaginative cannons, contraptions, battlefields, and more imaginative war imagery. I decided to …
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Beautiful Vintage Children's Book Illustrations of Country Flowers
Happy Monday, Everyone! I hope the Easter Bunny was good to you this year. I miss Easter already, but the next awesome craft holiday on the horizon is Mothers Day, so I really wanted to curate a special collection of free flower illustrations, fun facts, craft tips, and gift ideas this year. Nothing says Mothers …
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Free Vintage Easter Illustration of a Yellow Bird with Birdcage
I have a lovely collection of vintage illustrations and scrapbooking die cuts at home, and this little guy has always been one of my favorites. I’ve been wanting to upload him for a while, and with Easter around the corner, I thought it would be the perfect occasion. If you’re scrambling to make your DIY crafts …
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Free Vintage Illustrations for Easter: Beatrix Potter’s Benjamin Bunny
This is one of my favorite posts! Beatrix Potter was one of my favorite childhood authors and illustrators growing up, and I was absolutely thrilled to learn a while back that her original works entered the public domain in 2014. Her whimsical critters and rabbits have always been perfect for Easter. One Easter Sunday, I …
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Free Vintage Illustrations from Antique Easter Postcards
Wow! Easter is early this year. It totally snuck up on me. Just as I was wrapping up my Irish themed/St. Patrick’s Day posts, I have a brand new holiday to tackle. I love it and I cannot wait to show you the Free Easter illustrations that I have in store for today’s post and …
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Free Vintage Illustrations of Early 20th Century Ireland
For St. Patricks Day, I went on a hunt for some really cool vintage illustrations of Ireland. I was hoping to find something from the 19th or early 20th century, and low and behold, I struck gold! At the turn of the century, writer Katherine Tynan traveled to Ireland where she visited such Iconic Irish locations …
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Free Vintage Illustrations for St. Patrick’s Day: Corned Beef, Cabbage, and Potatoes
There’s another crafty holiday on the horizon! With St. Patrick’s Day around the corner, I’m reminded of when my grandma would make corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes for dinner. I went on an epic search and found some great clippings from vintage catalogs, seed advertisements, antique trading cards, and magazines and cleaned them up a …
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Free Vintage Illustrations of Birds Nests with Eggs
Birds nests and egg images are versatile and incorporate well into a variety of different holiday crafts. Growing up, mom took her Christmas trees seriously, so we always had different themed trees. One of my favorites was her nature tree filled with birds nests and eggs. I was thinking about their versatility and how they …
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Free Vintage Illustrations of Wild Animals, Insects, and Marine Life from Antique Children’s Science Book
I’ve been wanting to do a wild animals post for a while, but hadn’t found the right content I was looking for until now. Published in 1895, A Popular History of Animals for Young People was like an early version of Scientific Britannica for Kids. Rather than cartoonish animal figures, this book features animals drawn in …