Free Printable Vintage Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: The Knitter, 1893

It isn't what you have or who you are
or where you are or what you are doing
that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about it.
― Dale Carnegie
A black and white engraving from the cover of the November 19, 1893 issue of La Famille. This antique illustration shows a lady sitting by a sunny window, cooled by a refreshing breeze as she knits away in serene contentment.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies at the Booksellers or Library, 1875

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
A fashion history illustration from an 1875 issue of Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine. The colour plate show two Victorian ladies browsing for books in a well-stocked bookshop or a lending library.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustrations for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Edwardian Ladies in Promenade Costumes 1 (1904)

I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
― Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
A pair of vintage fashion hstory illustrations from 1904. The Edwardian lady on the left is strolling around the park with an open parasol over her shoulder; the Edwardian lady on the right is pictured with a fancy walking stick in one hand while consulting a pocket guide book in her other hand. Original black and white engravings are from my personal collection of antique La Mode Illustrée magazines.

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