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A rapidly growing collection of free antique graphics for your designs. Use them for scrapbooks, tags, print projects, graphic design, web design, and much more.

Tom Turkey Thanksgiviing Clipart

Tom Turkey Thanksgiviing Clipart

Tom Turkey Thanksgiviing Clipart

Tom Turkey Thanksgiviing Clipart

This old image from 1921, that I’ve titled: “Tom Turkey Thanksgiviing Clipart” is wonderful. I especially like the turkey in this graphic, the design and vivid color. So I decided to cut him out.
Here’s a version on PNG file with a transparent background. He would make a great design element for your harvest creative project.

Tom Turkey Thanksgiving Transparent PNG file

Tom Turkey Thanksgiving Transparent PNG file

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cupid loses arrow seamless tile

cupid loses arrow seamless tile

cupid loses arrow seamless tile

Cupid Loses Arrow Seamless Tile

A gorgeous seamless tile I made from a Victorian or Edwardian trade card for, believe it or not, butter. Such a lovely image for an advertisement, but they were a highly collectible commodity back in the days when people used them in scrapbooks and to create various decorations. Truly, such ad cards were artistic treasures in the Victorian era.

You can download the image that I made this seamless tile form here: Cupid Loses Arrow Graphic.

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Cupid Loses Arrow Graphic

Cupid Loses Arrow Graphic

Cupid Loses Arrow Graphic. Click the image to view and download the full-size version.

Cupid Loses Arrow Graphic

A Victorian or Edwardian cupid in gorgeous pastel colors. The pink shades really pop and yet the whole image is so pleasantly soft. The cupid apparently lost his arrow in the water and is trying to retrieve it. I only just acquired this image. I knew I had to buy it and share it with you the first time I saw it as it would not only be great for Valentine’s Day projects but also for numerous projects and crafts all through the year.

This is such a wonderful image that I decided to make a seamless tile from it. So if you like this image don’t miss the tile as it would be great for flood filling a background paper or for a photoshop pattern.

This image was originally a Dutch trade card. The back is in Dutch, and I translated it to learn that it’s an ad for “Fine Natural Butter.”

I hope you find it useful!

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To My Valentine Cupid Seamless Tile

To My Valentine Cupid Seamless Tile

To My Valentine Cupid Seamless Tile

To My Valentine Cupid Seamless Tile

A seamless tile I created from my Valentine Cupid. A sweet image for your romantic designs. Great for scrapbooking, DIY craft, print transfers or whatever else you dream up.

As it’s seamless, you can easily use it to flood fill an image or background or to make a Photoshop Pattern. It could also be used for a web background.

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To My Valentine Cupid Graphic

To My Valentine Cupid Graphic

To My Valentine Cupid Graphic. Click the image to view and download the full-size version.

To My Valentine Cupid Graphic

What a gorgeous image! Valentine’s Day may be a while away, but this image is eye-catching all through the year. Little can be sweeter than a Victorian cupid, red roses, forget-me-nots, and doves. Actually, the cupid is Edwardian as this vintage image is from 1909. It’s such an adorable illustration that I decided to make a seamless tile from it. Here’s the link: Valentine Cupid Seamless tile.

I hope you find a good use for this little angel. Use it for scrapbooking, DIY craft, print transfers or whatever else you dream up.

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Free Christmas Sled Scene Graphic

Free Christmas Sled Scene graphic

Free Christmas Sled Scene. Click the image to view and download the full-size version.

Free Christmas Sled Scene Graphic

A wonderful Christmas Sled Scene, featuring a boy on a sled, a Christmas tree slung over his shoulder. There’s snow and pine trees all around him. Just behind him are two adults on a sled. One gets the sense that he and his parents went looking for the perfect tree and found it.

There’s a date on the back of the image. I can’t fully make it out, but I believe it’s 1914.

This image will be great for so many holiday and winter projects. It’s a bright image, great for lifting spirits and instilling some holiday cheer during the winter gray. I hope you find it useful for your creative projects.

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Free Thanksgiving Feast Graphic

Free Thanksgiving Feast Graphic

Free Thanksgiving Feast Graphic

Free Thanksgiving Feast Graphic

I have Thanksgiving on my mind as it’s not far away. I’d started planning for it in the summer. As I’ve aged, the holiday has become more and more dear to me. Along the way, life teaches us what’s truly important and that’s love, health, and the many simple blessings we receive each day. Every day, I try to remember my many reasons to be thankful.

So, tonight, I was working on a Thanksgiving graphics package, featuring vintage paper turkeys, no less, for ButterflyWebGraphics, when I came across this antique image on my hard drive. I’d scanned it in long ago. It’s a nice image, clean with great colors, uplifting through the gray of November, and so I decided to share it here.

It’s a postcard from the turn of the century. Originally, it had some nice text at the top– “Thanksgiving Day” in bronze Deco-looking letters. But long ago a lazy or dispassionate clerk at the post office stamped the front instead of the back–not that there wasn’t ample room there. It’s always upsetting to see this kind of damage to an otherwise perfectly good image, and I see it often. As the stamp lines go through the text, I decided to remove it.

I touched it up and now it’s ready for your talented hands. I hope you find a good use for it in your creative designs. Many blessings to you this Thanksgiving and all year through.

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Free Red Headed Angel graphic

Free Red Headed Angel graphic

Free Red Headed Angel graphic

Free Red Headed Angel graphic

Another lovely Victorian image that I cut out this evening. She’s a Deco angel with long red hair. She’s just beautiful and would be great for so many types of designs–Christian, Easter, Christmas, and anything having to do with faith. She was originally published in 1923. I hope you can use in your creations.

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Free Vintage Violet Graphics

Free vintage Violet graphics

Free vintage Violet graphics

Free Vintage Violet Graphics

I spent a lot of time cutting these Vintage Violet Graphics out–there’s truly no easy way to do so. But they were worth the effort as they’re lovely. They’re from an Easter postcard from the turn of the century, but they aren’t just for Easter alone. They would be great for all kinds of design projects. They would be perfect for a scrapbook. I can imagine those lovely violets around a frame. Whatever you’re working on, I hope you find these useful.

They’re a PNG file on a transparent background.

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Free xmas joys santa graphic

Free xmas joys santa graphic

Free xmas joys santa graphic

Free xmas joys santa graphic

A gorgeous image of Santa with a bag of toys from the Victorian era. There are several Santa’s in this series of artwork, and this is the second that I’ve published here. Here is the first Santa, which I’ve dubbed the the Spirit of Christmas Santa.

The artist who illustrated them had a great talent for capturing the spirit of the holiday season. These illustrations seem to hold the jovial spirit of Santa and the hope of Christmas. They are truly something to treasure.

These Santas would be great for numerous DIY projecs and digital designs.

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If you’re new to ClipArtPlace, welcome. Please feel free to browse my rapidly growing free graphics collection. To the right, you’ll find the categories. Graphics are my passion. I have a huge collection of vintage images, and I’m adding new vintage and modern clipart each day. So drop by often for graphics that you can use in your crafts and design projects. My Terms are liberal. If you’d like to know more about my mission for this site, please Click here.