Weird Wednesday: Little Kids Shoes

Every now and then I get around to adding images to this blog that were published before 1923 and thus are in the public domain. And every now and then I find a strange image and I try to remember to post those on Wednesdays--Weird Wednesday.

Well, today I have a doozy for you.

This is an ad for some business/product called Shookids from the year 1919. And in the ad the children are shoes. Not kids wearing shoes. They are shoes. Sitting around a dinner table about to be served--turkey? Mama Shoe looks very surprised about something. Maybe because she and the kids have all turned into shoes? Totally weird. Disturbing even?

I have not much to say about this image. I feel like I am having a weird dream. I want to wake up now.




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Lively Lads

This is a fun illustration of four, cheerful boys from a vintage newspaper ad from 1912 advertising for the "nobbiest and newest offerings in Neckwear, Caps, Hats and other wearables" including shoes. They are rigged out in what are a few different examples of the fashion styles for boys of the 1910s era, including knee length pants and stockings and shoes with spats. Two of them are wearing nautical inspired suits and the others look like what I tend to think of as "newspaper boys" although I am sure it was typical schoolboy dress as well.

I've cleaned the image up, although there are a few flaws from the newspaper printing that someone may want to improve upon (it's easier to see it at full size).



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Little Boy Sharing with Little Girl

Here is a cute image of a young boy (yes, that is a boy in that funny dress like clothing) offering food (perhaps a muffin?) to a young girl carrying a doll underneath her arm. This is a nice image portraying kindness and the act of sharing.





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Woman and Girls with a Basket

Here is an image of a woman holding a basket and showing its contents to two little girls. The original context of this image is in regards to how the basket is for charity and filled with items for the poor. But you can use your own imagination to decide what is in the basket and adapt it for your own use.













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Children at Church During Christmas

The title for this image in the vintage book I got it from was "The Christmas Festival." You can see in the image Victorian era children in winter clothes of coats, hats and hand muffs, sitting in the church pews, some stained glass windows, and what appears to be holly boughs tied to the columns in the church.

I think the girls in this image look so charming and cute. It might make for a nice Christmas card.









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Big Sister

Here is another sweet, public domain image from the Victorian/Edwardian era for you to use for crafts or print on demand products, or what have you. In this one an older girl holds the hand of a cute toddler, probably a sibling. I think she is holding a ball in her other hand, but I am not sure.





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Boy and Girl Studying

It seems that children with books is a common theme in the Ethics for Success reader that I have scanned many images from for this blog. Here is yet another one. Here is an illustration of a boy and a girl, perhaps studying or writing a letter to someone. The girl holds a book open with one hand, while the boy writes a letter with a fountain pen and an inkwell that is in front of him. A shelf or fireplace mantel with a clock, books and candlesticks are in the background behind them.




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What is in the Parcel?

In this vintage illustration an older girl holds a parcel (wrapped box) in her hands, about to unwrap it, as a younger sibling looks on. This image would perhaps be good for a birthday or Christmas card?




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Reading a Book Together Clipart

This little boy and girl are reading together in what may be an old fashioned school room. The girl seems to have a slate or some sort of writing surface on her lap, while they sit on a bench, and peer at the book that the boy holds together.

This public domain image comes from the Ethics of Success reader.



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Boy Playing Baseball - Vintage

Here is a young man with an old fashioned baseball mitt. The old book I got it from had the caption underneath this picture as "Roland" and told of a boy who had formed "good habits" and didn't swear or use slang and tried to be the best at everything and so was very good at baseball.



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Children in an Orchard

I think this is such a sweet picture of three children, a boy, a girl and a baby/toddler (that could be either a boy or girl) under an apple tree, picking up fallen apples and putting them in a basket. This public domain picture accompanied a lesson, from the Ethics of Success reader for children, about getting one's work done before play.



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