Here's a collection of vintage clip art from late 1800's and early 1900's actual advertisements in various magazines. This useful and high quality collection is in 100% scalable vector format, so whether you print the pictures at 10% or 1000%, you will see no loss of resolution - only crisp, clean artwork! All artwork is from actual advertising in magazines from my personal vintage ephemera collection. The 16 products featured are:
• Rubifoam for the Teeth - Toothpaste
• Bradley Wagons - Horse drawn buggies
• Addley Bourne Ladies' Warehouse - Women's clothing and corsets
• John Andrew & Son Co. - Professional illustration and commercial art
• Pro-phy-lac-tic - Toothbrushes
• E & HT Anthony & Co. - Camera and Photo store on Broadway in New York
• Lamson and Hubbard - Furriers and hatters (millinery)
• Glycerine Jelly of Violets - Skin care
• Europe on $7 a Day - Vacations via steamship travel
• Forest Park / Rose Hill Trolley - A St. Louis electric trolley service
• Wilbor's Cod Liver Oil
• New Home Sewing Machines
• W. Baker & Co.'s Breakfast Cocoa
• Ely's Cream Balm - Quack "Cure-All"
• Moss Engraving Co - Engraved illustrations and handmade half tones for professional printing
• Burpee's Extra Re-Cleaned Grass and Clover Seeds
Product comes as a 18 page PDF, immediately downloadable via the Etsy delivery system. Watermarks will not appear on the final artwork.
PDF files can be easily converted to JPG, GIF or PNG by opening them up in a program such as Photoshop Elements, Photoshop, or Illustrator. They can also be printed directly your printer at any scale. You can even have them printed on poster sized paper at a place like FedEx/Kinko's.
Usage Guidelines
You Can:
Print these images onto paper or any other physical item and sell any physical product you make with them - as long as you are a small business and the amount of items produced is less than a quantity of 5000.
Print these images and sell the physical prints in an offline “brick and mortar” store, craft show, flea market, or other place where you conduct business in person with your customers.
Print these images for personal use for pretty much any reason!
Use these images on your blog, online shop, website, logo, or business materials, provided you are using them as part of a design, and are not intended for redistribution.
You Cannot:
Use these images for commercial purposes outside of the scope outlined above.
Sell any digital copies of these images, in whole or in part.
Share these images with your family or friends in a digital format in such a way that they can avoid buying their own copy of the images.
If you are unsure if your usage is covered under these terms, please just ask! I’m quite generous and reasonable, for the most part. :)