Victorian Valentine’s Day
When Love Grows Cold
A comical vintage Victorian postcard, the title of which is “When Love Grows Cold.” This version is tinted, in my postcard hunting travels I’ve seen the same image as a monotone image. This scene depicts snow. I haven’t seen much of the real thing in the Philadelphia area, so I may need to print this [...]
Victorian Cupid Postcard
A charming vintage Victorian cupid postcard for your clip art crafting needs. A blond cupid, bow and arrows in hand, giving you a longing look from within a heart surrounded by little blue forget-me-nots and hearts. It reads: I Love you dearly as you can see But the question is–do you love me? To My [...]
Romantic Vintage Couple
Here is a charming old-fashioned couple in this vintage 19th century trade card. Perfect free Valentine clip art image to get a head-start on crafting those Valentine’s. Click on the image above to download the larger file. Colors restored so this is one beautiful printable as it is.
Victorian Parlor Game: Cupid’s Wheel of Fortune
Cupid’s Wheel of Fortune is my adaptation of an early 20th century parlor game of the same name. Print and Make Cupid Game (PDF, 361KB)
Cora’s Valentine
By Edyth Kirkwood, as published in Peterson’s Magazine, February 1884 “Ah! there you are at last, Cora. I was just going to send your breakfast up to you. Did you have a pleasant time, at the party, last night?” Cora drew up her chair, stirred her coffee sleepily, repressed a yawn, and replied, slowly: “It [...]
The Broken Hearted
I have seen the infant sinking down, like a stricken flower, to the grave—the strong man fiercely breathing out his soul upon the field of battle—the miserable convict standing upon the scaffold, with a deep curse quivering on his lips—I have viewed death in all his forms of darkness and vengeance with a tearless eye,—but [...]
