A Simple Pair of Scissors

Sometimes all you need is a simple image of a pair of scissors. Thankfully I found just that in a vintage ad. It has a very clean outline and basic details.

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Finger Pointing Clip Art

Black and white illustrations of a man's hand pointing its finger are very common...but they are also very useful in so many applications and somehow I think they are just Fun! I think they remind me of those animations from Monty Python. They are great for signage, but also invitations, flyers, funny messages and so much more.

So here's one more pointing finger in the public domain to use as clip art, adding to all those already out there for you to choose from. This image has a resolution of 99ppi.

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I'm sure I'll be adding more of these sort of hands to this blog in the future.



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Cartoon Newsboy - Public Domain Clip Art

Got news to announce? Here is a cartoon newsboy with newspapers in hand and an excited expression on his face to help announce that special moment, idea, or what have you to your friends, family, or the world. This urchin of the streets has character and spunk, don't you think?

Here also is the original version which shows the newsie talking to an elderly gentleman with a long beard, spectacles, hat and an umbrella. (I've removed the original text beneath, that with the slang and context of events of the time would probably have little meaning to modern readers...I could barely make heads or tales of it. To be honest I've found I often don't understand the jokes and cartoons from the early 1900s. With the text removed you can easily add your own captions anyway.)

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Three Sewing Baskets

These three sewing baskets comes from an ad published in 1918. Holding scissors, spools of thread, and other sewing implements for sewing and mending these baskets were an important part of the household at the turn of the century.







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Ice Cream Cone Clipart Black and White

How fun is this? An ice cream cone from a vintage ad (it was actually from a coloring competition type of ad). Ice cream and dessert lovers will find lots of uses for this public domain picture.





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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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Pretty Edwardian Lady Portrait

This is a little too belated for Valentine's Day, but here is a pretty illustrated portrait of an Edwardian lady in what may be an evening gown. A simple oval frame with rectangles and hearts as accents frames her. She looks somewhat similar to a Gibson girl illustration.

This comes from an old advertisement in a newspaper from the year 1909.



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