This is a wonderful old menu from the November 1920 issue of McCall’s magazine. There are some charming illustrations here, like the table setting in the middle of the page, with the caption reading “Dewy purple grapes, golden-brown corn, ruddy apples, vine leaves - a charming harvest table.”
On the bottom are pictures of “a tomato [...]
An exceptionally pretty gift is a bag (Fig. 1), which may be used to carry handkerchiefs, and the change purse, or may be used as an opera-bag, or as an embroidery-bag… An especially handsome bag can be made by combining two shades of the same color, as for instance, using old gold for the heavy [...]
Normally, I only post images that I scan into the computer directly from my own collection of ephemera. However, I have become so enamoured of these early color photographs that I had to share some of these images I found online! Believe it or not, the photo above was taken in 1910, in Savannah, Georgia. [...]
Many of the products we use around the house today were in existence for quite a long time! One example of this is Vaseline, as seen in the vibrant ad above that I found in the December 1919 issue of The Woman’s Magazine. However, as the ad shows, Vaseline came in several different formulas at [...]
One of Vintage123’s readers, Jan, posted a comment on this entry from the archives asking if there was any way I could post the patterns for these watch cases from 1915. I managed to retrieve the instructions for the watch fob with pin, and the wrist case for medium-faced watch. Unfortunately, I don’t see the [...]
This article comes from the September 1912 issue of McCall’s magazine. I love reading old recipes, because so often they demonstrate how much our palates have changed from one generation to another. Sometimes, though, they show how much our tastes remain the same. I found both of these statements to be proven in this one [...]
A beautiful woman graces the cover of this sheet music from 1912, “That’s How I Need You.” I love the subtle coloring and gorgeous illustration, and that made me curious about the song itself. It was written by Joe Goodwin and Joe McCarthy (words), and Al Piantadosi (music); and, according to the cover, was “successfully [...]
This is a rather interesting advertisement that I found in my copy of the February 15, 1917 issue of Vogue Magazine. It seems that Cutex, a company which is still around today, had just come out with a new cuticle remover that prevented women from having to cut and soak their cuticles during a manicure.
What [...]
I love the very elegant car ad above. It comes from the February 15, 1917 issue of Vogue magazine. According to this website about the Milburn history,
In late September of 1914, the Milburn Wagon Company began the manufacture of their 1915 Milburn Light Electric automobiles, based on a design by Karl Probst, who later designed [...]
I love looking at old postcards of cities because there are always so many wonderful vintage details to be seen in them. In this one, I love the parasols of the ladies, the streetcars and horse drawn carriages, and the red and white striped awning on both sides of the street. Having grown up near [...]
