Showing posts with label Ephemera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ephemera. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Other Crafts - A Leather Shopping Bag from 1950

 


A shopping bag to make from leather scraps (with very little tweaking, you could turn this into a clutch or a wallet - just line it so small items don't fall out).  From Crafts for Everyone, by Louis V. Newkirk, 1950.  This can be read for free online at the Hathi Trust site, but you will need a library or school account to download it.

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Knitting - A Scrap Yarn Rug from 1950

 

From Workbasket magazine, September of 1950, and is another iteration on the theme of strip-knitted rugs.  This issue is my own, and is not yet up at the Antique Pattern Library site.



Left click to enlarge.

 


Monday, July 27, 2026

Vintage Advertising - Grape Nuts Cereal

 

Maybe we should send a carload to Congress.  From Blue Book Magazine, April 1918.

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Vintage Sewing: Some Muslin Lingerie from 1910

 






From Harper's Handy-book for Girls, a project considered suitable for girls (especially those who might someday have to sew their own undergarments).  The book can be found online.  



Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Children's Crafts - "Fanciful Felt Bookmarks" from 1960

 


From McCalls Golden Do-it Book, 1960.  Left-click to enlarge, or go to the copy on the Internet Archive.

Dig that smug-looking cat.

Monday, June 15, 2026

Vintage Holidays - Flag Day

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy

Monday, May 11, 2026

Vintage Magazines - Argosy All Story Weekly


 March 8th, 1924.  Poor Horace Howard Herr appears to have slipped into obscurity, like James B. Hendryx and William Patterson White (the books of both of whom can be found on the Internet Archive and White, in particular, is a fun read).

When did men in Westerns stop wearing those wristguards?

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Friday, May 1, 2026

Quote of the Day


image from the Graphics Fairy

When April steps aside for May,
Like diamonds all the raindrops glisten.
Fresh violets open every day,
To some new bird each hour we listen. ~ Lucy Larcom

Friday, April 24, 2026

Quote of the Day

 


 

Whoever makes a garden
Has never worked alone;
The rain has alway found it,
The sun has always known. ~ Douglas Malloch

Monday, April 20, 2026

VIntage Advertising - Campfire Marshmellows

 


From Good Housekeeping magazine, February 1929.  If you want to give that recipe a try, left-click to enlarge.  A black and white copy of the entire magazine is available to read at the Cornell University Library digital collection.

Monday, April 6, 2026

Vintage Advertising - Crisco Shortening


 From the Pictorial Review, April 1933.

Monday, March 30, 2026

Vintage Holidays - Easter

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy

Monday, March 9, 2026

Vintage Holidays - St Patrick's Day

 

copyright-free image from The Graphics Fairy

Monday, February 23, 2026

Vintage Advertising - Eagle Brand Condensed Milk

 


From the Pictorial Review, February 1929.  The recipes look delicious; left-click to enlarge.

Monday, February 2, 2026

Vintage Magazines - Western Story Magazine, October 1925

 


I hate to think what's going to happen when that cowpoke comes down.  Western Story Magazine (a weekly) from 10/31/25.

Monday, January 19, 2026

Monday, January 12, 2026

Monday, January 5, 2026

Vintage Advertising - Campbell's Soup

 

American Woman, July 1931

Monday, December 29, 2025

Vintage Holidays - New Year's Eve

 

copyright-free image from The Graphics Fairy