Latin Text Book Page: Great Background Image!

I love antique book pages, and this one is very old with Latin text.  I can't tell you what it says, but it seems to be a scientific or metaphysical text, I think. 
This would make a great background image for cards or altered art or even jewelry.  I love using any kind of printed page for that.  I am fascinating by words and language and also the fonts themselves.  Notice the beautiful decorative capitol letter M.
I hope you enjoy this free vintage image, which can be saved, printed, resized, etc., as needed.  Follow me and visit again!
Emily

Antique Book Page: Alice in Wonderland

Still digging into the pages for cool ephemera backgrounds ... here is a scan of an antique book page.  Seems to be a story about a little girl and a White Rabbit with a pocket-watch... more to come...!

Thanks for visiting!

Emily

Antique Music Page Background

You can't have enough background pages, and the wonderful thing about digital is that you can use them again and again without harming the original.  I have piles of sheet music and antique books, ledgers, dictionaries and such, so expect more digital ephemera pages.  Let me know if you like them!  Have a request?

Victorian Illustrations: The Old Woman Tossed in a Basket

I couldn't resist a couple more pictures of the Old Woman Tossed in a Basket!

The first  is from The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright. The small black and white drawing is from The Little Mother Goose (1912), illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.

Witchy Girl / Housewife in Victorian Ad

Here is another woman with a broom to sweep the cobwebs from the sky -- this one from an antique Victorian soap ad. 

I like the contrast yet connection between the sensuous woman on her broomstick and the busy housewife (kitchen maid?) in her kitchen.  Each has the same knowing look on her face, looking right at the viewer, as if they are the same woman!

I hope you enjoy this old advertising art in your creative endeavors.

Fairy Tale Witch and Moon: Nursery Rhyme

There was an old woman tossed up in a basket,
Ninety times as high as the moon;
And where she was going I could'nt but ask it,
For in her hand she carried a broom.

"Old woman, old woman, old woman," quoth I,
"O whither, O whither, O whither, so high?"
"To brush the cobwebs off the sky!"
"Shall I go with thee?" "Aye, by and by."

I remember this nursery rhyme from Mother Goose.  I always liked it.  This version is from The Baby's Bouquet, A Fresh Bunch of Rhymes and Tunes by Walter Crane, with his wonderful illustration.

Antique Advertising Text and Illustrations

I can never get enough of these old advertising pages, especially when they have fancy borders and cool illustrations.  I love the antique-looking fonts, too.

This is actually a rather larger image, so again remember you can resize large or small for all sorts of projects. 

These ephemera pages make lovely backgrounds, or crop out the illustrations.  Here we have a sewing machine, a cup of instantaneous chocolate ("the greatest invention of the age"), a rolling chair, and "the improved home Turko-Russian folding bath cabinet," in addition to the smart housekeeper answering her door, plus fun text.