Click on the image above to download the larger file. Colors restored so this is one beautiful printable as it is.

Scanned from my collection of antique Halloween postcards and yours to use as free clip art in your next artistic project. Click on the image for a larger version of the same. Just be kind and give credit back to “missmary.com” as the image source whenever possible and do not toss onto a clip art CD or incorporate into a collage sheet for sale.

And hey, if you make something with it that you’d like to show off, let me know, I’d love to see it and would be happy to link to your blog or what-have-you.

It’s really pretty in person; it’s embossed with lovely gold highlights, just a little rough around the edges.

And now, I’ve got to work on my Pumpkin a Day. More vintage Halloween images soon–that is, if you want to see more. Let me know!

Some of the more interesting scrapbooks in my collection are not those which are crammed with Victorian art prints, scraps and postcards; rather, I enjoy the more personal scrapbooks; those made from altered ledgers and books containing favorite poems, recipes, snippets of useful information, spiced up with the occasional scrap image or cherished photograph.

We now have so many choices, and digital scrapbooking software has for some replaced the traditional supplies of printed scraps and paste glue. I am not as old-fashioned as I appear, I think there is comfort in knowing a tradition born of necessity and beauty continues in some form.

Free Victorian bird scrap for your scrapbook.

Enjoy this old article, The Value of a Scrap-Book, from Household Hints and Recipes by Henry T. Willams and “Daisy Eyebright” 1884

Every one who takes a newspaper containing various items connected with housekeeping, the toilette, etc., will often regret to have it torn up, on account of some little scrap in it which was of importance to them; but, if a scrapbook was only at hand, the scissors could have quickly transferred the item to its pages.

If you have never been accustomed to preserve short articles, and tiny scraps in this manner, you cannot understand the pleasure you would take in turning over the pages of the book, and reading a bit here and a scrap there. Perhaps a choice bit of poetry will meet your eye, and bring tears to its lids; or a witty anecdote will make the room ring with your laughter. Or, valuable “Hints” or “Recipes” may claim your attention just at the time you needed the knowledge they contain.

Indeed, you can hardly read a single paper at the present time, but you will find something in its columns that is worthy of preservation, and which will be of service to you many times during your life.

Or, you may procure a choice thought, which is far more precious than a jewel set in gold; and, if you will hoard these rare gems, year after year, you will garner up a treasure-book that will not only be of service to yourself, but also to your children and grandchildren, in decades of years yet to come.

Victorian Religious Scrap

Found in an old Victorian scrapbook, a sweet religious scrap.

Just click on the image above for a larger version that you may use as clip art.

This image was scanned from an original Victorian era scrap book and I’m happy to share it with you. However, it may not be redistributed as part of another design resource (such as a clip art package or digital scrapbook theme or template).

Boston Light 1876

A lovely 19th century chromolithograph found in a Victorian scrap-book, showing a tall ship in a Boston harbor with a lighthouse in the distance.

Do:  Click on the image for a larger version that you can use as royalty-free clip art.

Don’t: Redistribute the image, or use it to create a digital or printed clip-art resource.

Questions? Leave a comment. Suggestions? Let me know! I have lots of images that I’d like to share with you!

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)