Printable Vintage Advertising: Skates, Silver Polish and Silver Handle Embroidery Needle, 1904

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really.
What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that,
and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

Originally published in the January 1904 issue of The Delineator. Here are three ads for skates from Barney & Berry, silver polish by Electro Polish, and recruitment for agents to sell the Silver Handle Embroidery Needle.

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Printable Victorian Science Illustrations for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: 19th Century Clouds

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling
― Munia Khan

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there
that the sea and sky looked all one fabric,
as if sails were stuck high up in the sky,
or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

19th century illustrations of clouds from A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, published in 1880 by William Mackenzie. You can download these illustrations as an 8” x 12” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Illustration: Victorian Women with Little Black Books (Set 1)

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
― Margaret Fuller

I'm rather ashamed of my plans; I make a new one every day.
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

An unbreakable mask and cunning are the keys for executing a plan flawlessly.
― Imania Margria, Eyes

Two vintage illustrations from 1892 showing Victorian women with little black books. You can download these two high-res illustration in one 6” x 6” @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.


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