AdVintage - the vintage reprint store

The official Tumblr of AdVintage vintage reprint store. Reprints of illustrations from the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. Everything you see is an actual product available for purchase. Visit http://www.zazzle.co.uk/advintage

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July calendar page with an illustration of water-lilies and a frog (1911) by

Theo van Hoytema (Netherlands, 1863–1917).

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wikimedia.

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Front cover illustration of 'Ladies Home Journal' (July 1930) by May Wilson Preston.

Restoration by: magscanner

Internet Archive Python library 1.8.1

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Cut-out paper dolls with costumes taken from 'Ladies Home Journal (Jan-Dec 1915) by Meredith Corporation.

I'm not sure sure what became of Betty Bonnet but if I ever find anything I shall post it.

archive.org

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Front cover of July 1899 edition of ‘The Black Cat’ with an illustration by Nellie Littlehale Umbstaetter of the Black Cat dressed in a ruff amongst fireworks.

Source -Scrimbab. Restoration by magscanner

Internet Archive Python library 1.8.1

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Geranium Inquinans (1778) by Mary Delany.

Collage of coloured papers, bodycolour and watercolour, black ink background.

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

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Two teleosaurs in a prehistoric landscape. Sea and land. 1887.

Internet Archive

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From our stacks: "'The Beguiling of Merlin.' E. Ramus after Mme. Henriette Browne" from L'eau-forte. M. K. Halévy. Philadelphia: G. Barrie, c1888-89.

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French vintage postcard

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Fashion plates taken from a scrapbook of fashion plates (late-18th century to 1942) by William G. Krieghoff, Benjamin M. Dale.

Plates taken from various magazines.

Smithsonian Libraries

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Cherries in a silver compote with crab apples and a fritillary butterfly by

Fede Galizia (1578–1630).

Oil on panel.

Wikimedia.

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May 29, 1926

Art by R. John Holmgren

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June 12, 1926

Art by Ruth Eastman

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Coreopsis (Tickseed) taken from 'The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials' by Jane Louden.

Published 1843 by W. Smith.

Smithsonian Libraries

archive.org

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Illustrations of Alpine plants taken from 'Alpine Plants' by David Wooster.

Published 1872 by Bell and Daldy, York Street, Covent Garden.

Boston Public Library

archive.org

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Judge, 1936, art by Don Herold

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Hanno the elephant – Scientist of the Day

Hanno the elephant died on June 8, 1517, in his enclosure near the Vatican.  

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From The Rover, Feb. 17, 1951