Antique art, sheet music, photos, cards and advertising art for crafts
Bits of printed art and headlines clipped from old posters, handbills, newspaper cuts, magazine clippings and book pages embellish altered books, artist trading cards, paper crafts, gift tags and scrapbook pages with vintage style and visual interest.
Many vintage graphics can be enlarged into prints suitable for framing. Decoupage and collage are perfect frugal crafts that make use of vintage graphics and antique clip art.
Save or share this page to use for future paper crafts - I will be updating it frequently with new sources for vintage graphics, retro clip art and old photo sources in the public domain.Vintage Clip Art for Holiday Crafts
Vintage Valentine Graphics
Vintage St. Patrick's Day Clip Art
Vintage Easter Graphics
Vintage Christmas Art
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- Vintage Graphics - Retro Clip Art
- Retro Advertising Art - 1940s through 1960s Clipart
- Vintage Clip Art Collections
- Vintage Photographs
- Vintage Sheet Music
- Vintage Clip Art Collections for Collages or Scrapbooks
- Vintage Valentines
- Vintage St. Patrick's Day Cards & Irish Graphics
- Vintage Easter Clip Art and Greeting Cards
- Vintage Christmas Graphics
- Antique Prints Clip Art: Newspapers, Sheet Music, Books and Documents
- Vintage Magazines
- Retro Graphic Goodies on CafePress
- Vintage Clipart Labels - Antique Package Graphics
- Vintage Art Crafts
- Vintage Card Crafts
- Featured Nostalgia and Collectibles Lenses
- Vintage PhotoShop Brushes & Fonts
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Free Victorian Clipart
Free Victorian Clipart. Copyright free images from more...4 points
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Liam’s Pictures from Old Books
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Vintage Graphics, Retro Clip Art, Old Post Card Images, Antique Advertising Art
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Victorian Vignettes
Free victorian and edwardian images for personal, more...1 point
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Free Vintage Images
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Index to Hundreds of Old Images
Complete text index to hundreds of Victorian, chil more...0 points
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The Graphics Fairy Blog
Free Vintage & Victorian Clip Art Blog-New Stu more...0 points
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Vintage Resources Exchange
Collection of free Vintage images and ephemera, in more...0 points
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Us Library of Congress
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Grandma's Graphics: Unique Images from the Past
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Retro Advertising Art - 1940s through 1960s Clipart
Classic Illustrations, Magazine Adverts and Newspaper Cuts
Folks Faces - Old advert standards, now available as Rubber Stamp designsPlan 59 - Museum of 1950s art with many small graphics and shop to buy large format repros
Retro Ads 30s to 60s - cheesecake beauties plus ice cream signs, bicycle posters, postcard fronts
Vintage Clip Art Collections
Everything old is new again
Vintage Photographs
Faces from our past, links to the future
I just love this formal photograph of my maternal grandmother, Martha Theussert, as a young teen in Germany.- Family Old Photos
- Free genealogy old photograph archive of old pictures of people and places - share yours or find missing family pix and homesteads.
- Vintage 1920's to 1930's Brides We Love
- Vintage Brides from Gulden & Brown
- Real Frontier Photo Post Cards
- Frontier Vintage Photos
- Old Box of Photos
- art-e-zine Vintage Image Resources. Send in your nice vintage images in return for using these
- Library of Congress Vintage Photographs
- Amazing assortment of photographs ranging from the historic to the whimsical.
Vintage Sheet Music
Get 'em Before They're Gone - Antique Sheet Music on eBay
You can find wonderful old sheet music prints on eBay.
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Vintage Clip Art Collections for Collages or Scrapbooks
Bits and pieces, oldies but goodies
- Plan59 - Retro Galleries Directory
- Plan59 Retro Illustrations and Graphics from 1950s print media
- Free Victorian Scrapbook Images
- Averyl's Attic offers Victorian etiquette advice, antiques, poetry, clip art, history and pretty things.
- Pictures from Old Books
- Scanned images in a searchable index, all out of copyright and in public domain. High resolution and other sizes available for download or print.
- Greeting Card Museum
- Greeting Card Museum-Enjoy a virtual tour while learning about the history of Postcards and Greeting Cards from Victorian times to the 20th century.
- Vintage Christmas Paper Dolls
- Christmas Paper Dolls from vintage magazines, now in the public domain.
- Edward Lear, Book of Nonsense 1-10
- Limericks and line drawings from Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense.
Vintage Valentines
Victorian Valentine cards and graphics
- Vintage Valentine Art Collection - Cupids & Children
- Cupids, adorable children, lace and flowers vintage Valentine scans.
- Hearts Atwirl - Vintage Valentine Cards from the early to mid 20th Century
- Lovely personal collection of old Valentines, organized by type - nice big pictures and descriptions.
- Card Museum - History of Valentine Cards
- Valentine greetings cards in detail, with front and back pictures including closeups of mechanical cards.
Vintage St. Patrick's Day Cards & Irish Graphics
Antique Cards Capture a Glimpse of Simpler Times and Holiday Delight
- Vintage St. Patrick's Day Graphics
- Vintage St. Patrick's Day art from public domain postcards, magazines and old adverts, printable graphics for paper crafts.
- St. Patrick's Gallery - Emotions Card Museum
- St. Patrick's Gallery of antique cards with history and manufacturing details.
Vintage Easter Clip Art and Greeting Cards
Antique Easter cards feature images and symbols that are rare today.- Vintage Easter Graphics
- Vintage Easter clip art from public domain postcards, magazines and old adverts, printable antique graphics for paper crafts.
- Vintage Easter Art - Children in an Eggshell Boat with Hare
- One in a collection Victorian style Easter illustrations that can be downloaded for personal use, such as stationary and gift-giving.
- Vintage Easter Images
- Free Vintage Easter Clip Art from The Graphics Fairy Blog
- Vintage Easter Postcards
- Vintage Easter Postcards pictures published by shenanny - pictures from collecting photos on webshots
- Vintage Easter greeting cards, decorations & pictures
- Vintage Easter images and pictures from vintage albums from Webshots.
Vintage Christmas Graphics
Old time Christmas graphics have a timeless quality. They appeal to almost everyone with nostalgic images of family life, Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus, snowy scenes and the Yule log.- Vintage Christmas Card Art
- Vintage Christmas clip art from graphics printed on antique postcards, magazines and advertising, printable antique Christmas graphics for paper crafts.
- Vintage Images of Christmas
- Victorian Santa Claus Clip Art Pictures of Christmas Past
- Olde-Fashioned Vintage Christmas Images Collection
- Olde-Fashioned Christmas Eve-small images, and larger graphics with watermarks that can be cropped out for some uses.
- Vintage Santa Claus Pictures - Clipart
- Vintage Santa Claus Pictures, various styles in different colored clothing.
- Free Christmas Clipart, Original and Vintage Christmas Clipart Free Downloads
- Free Print and Download Free Christmas Clipart
- Small Vintage Christmas Images
- Vintage Images of Christmas about 100 years old (c.1890 to c.1917). Many of these images were taken from post cards and greeting cards that were originally printed by chromolithography.
- Christmas printables - Victorian Santas & Gift Tags
- Free Printable vintage Christmas gift tags, graphics and more.
Antique Prints Clip Art: Newspapers, Sheet Music, Books and Documents
Vintage Magazines
Scan the ads, illustrations and photos for vintage graphics
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If its kitsch, its kewl
Kitsch Bitsch! Women's Tank Top
Price: 20.99
Kiss Me! Pin Up Stamp Maternity T-Shirt
Price: 30.99
Kitsch Bitsch! Magnet
Price: 8.99
Vintage Clipart Labels - Antique Package Graphics
Early to mid-20th century products were shipped in wooden crates with colorful labels
Box of Apples Blog - Retro Fruit Crate LabelsNice Collage of Ephemera - a whole big page of vintage labels, tags, book fronts, enclosure cards and sheet music
Antique Fruit Labels, PhotoShop Brushes
Old Time Photographs
Images tagged with keyword "vintage" or "retro"
Old time vintage photos and retro graphics available from Flickr contributors.
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Vintage Art Crafts
Projects to make from vintage graphics and ephemera
- Crafts with a Vintage Look
- Ideas, instructions and resources for projects using vintage image. Craft glossary, public-domain vintage images for download - free.
- Vintage handcrafted product labels
- Use these vintage designs to create enticing labels for your own specialty beverages, foods and baked goods, and handmade crafts.
Vintage Card Crafts
Featured Nostalgia and Collectibles Lenses
Let the Good Old Times Roll
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Funky Junky Decorating - Thrift Shop Feng Shui
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Whatever name you give it decorating a room, office cubicle, apartment, flat or home and garden with second hand furnishings, collectibles and accessories is economical, challenging and uniquely satisfying to those who are into eclectic design. You c...
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Sixties Art - Op Art, Pop Art, Psychedelic Graphics
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If you experienced music in the rain, bell bottoms, neon colors, dizzying patterns, genuine tie dye and hair, lots of hair - you're probably a member of Woodstock Nation. I survived it all, and still love my patched jean jacket, boots and macrame dec...
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Groovy 1960s
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Mini skirts, peace demonstrations, hippies, the Beatles, Martin Luther King, John F Kennedy, psychedelic drugs, tie dye. Remember the days? The Sixties was one of the most turbulent decades. At the same time, the 1960s produced some of the great...
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The Nostalgic Nugget Neato Keen Things From The Past
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What is Nostalgia? Nostalgic = n.1. "A bittersweet longing for things,persons, or situations of the past." Our passion is searching, finding, and selectively hand picking authentic, old cool stuff to pass along to those that love the past. We have...
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Woolworth's : A Needless Lesson in Nostalgia
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Okay, so it's a little goofy, but growing up, I remember going to Woolworth's and getting Garbage Pail Kids. I remember that strange smell of old plastic that always permeated the place. And if recent searches on the internet are any indication, I'm...
Vintage PhotoShop Brushes & Fonts
- Brushes for Photoshop - free brush by damnedinblack.net
- free photoshop brushes download
- Vintage Lady Art
- PhotoShop brushes featuring vintage ladies designs..
Hello - Please leave a calling card at Vintage Clip Art and Retro Graphics
I love older artwork and printed pages with their wonderful attention to detail and color.
How do you use vintage graphics and printed materials? Do you have a related lens to share?
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- praise praise Sep 27, 2009 @ 6:46 pm
- So many great art and graphic lenses I don't know where to begin! 5* Thanks.
Cheers,
Debra
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- WhiteOak50 WhiteOak50 Sep 23, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
- Fantastic Lens! I love the vintage theme of just about anything. There are so many wonderful things here. Great Job!! Have you seen Victorian Halloween?
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Sep 18, 2009 @ 12:31 pm
- Vintage Clip Art is my favorite.
Are these all site where the pictures are in Creative Commons or Public Domain so that they can be used on lenses?
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- JenOfChicago JenOfChicago Sep 17, 2009 @ 12:13 am
- This is great - favoriting it for future holiday use!
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- poutine poutine Sep 7, 2009 @ 4:34 pm
- Love your lens.
Thanks for putting all this together for us to enjoy.
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Retro Art and Vintage Clip Art Blogging Notes
Vintage Clip Art Resources - Retro Graphics Blog Postings
- *The Graphics Fairy*: Free Vintage Clip Art - Antique Santa Postcard
- Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Browse around to find nearly 1000 Free Clip Art images, that you can use for craft projects, collage, DIY etc! I've been adding free vintage graphics everyday since 2007. ...
- 1Homeschool: New Vintage Clip Art Site
- Looking for vintage clip art? We've just started a great new site. Graphics Sisters. We already have several images. They're from old Christmas cards purchased at auction, and they're up for free. Check it out. We'll be adding images, ...
- *The Graphics Fairy*: Free Vintage Clip Art - Baby Jesus, with ...
- Free Vintage Clip Art - Baby Jesus, with Mary & Angels. Here's a lovely antique real photo postcard featuring Mary holding the Baby Jesus. In the background are two dear little Angel girls! I did a fair amount of clean up on this, ...
- *The Graphics Fairy*: Free Vintage Clip Art - Old Pictures - Funny ...
- You are free to use all clip art and photos, with the exception of the banner, in any of your projects created for resale or pleasure. Please do not use more than 4 of the graphic images within any one project, or withing a single page ...
Free Vintage Graphics Caveat
It's your responsibility to determine the legal use of any graphic resources suggested in this lens. We review and recommend resources for you to check out on your own.
Always be sure to determine the terms of use for text, recordings, graphics or photos you find in books or online. If you use anything created by another person for any purpose it is your responsibility to check terms of use and to respect copyright laws.
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A bit about Pastiche
My Bio
* Pastiche's Lensography
* Giant Squid 100 Club
* Coloring Book Artist
* 20th Century g33k grrl
* Graphic Artist
* Adult Coloring Fan
* Family Portal Publisher
* Purple Star Lenses Rain Gardens, Nature's Water Filters, Eco-Friendly Tiny Houses, Clip Art Borders & Frames
* LOTD Easter Coloring Books (March 18, 2008)
* Zazzle Artist
Words to live by: Dream big, then make it happen.
A few of my graphics are famous - perhaps you've seen them on blogs, in games on your iPhone or in YouTube videos.
My clip art and paper craft blogs:
- Pastiche Printables & Paper Crafts
- Clip Art Borders & Scrapbook Frames
- Christmas Clip Art (plus graphics for Hanukkah & Kwanzaa)
- Easter Clip Art
- Halloween Clip Art (plus Day of the Dead graphics)
- Masquerade Instant Masks
- Romantic Clip Art for Weddings & Valentines
- Creative Clip Art Crafts & Patterns
- Favorite Clip Art & Print-Cut Crafts
Want to look over my shoulder for coloring pages, clip art or crafts ideas? I save my favorite pages as a Shared Resource on Google Reader. I write at Helium, too.
by Pastiche
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