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Free Vintage Graphic – Victorian Summer Fruit Basket

Today’s vintage graphic is a picture of a lovely, victorian (?) basket of fruit from a public domain site.  I cut out the white background and saved it as a .png file and it’s ready for your crafting use.  The colors in this image are so rich and the fruit looks pretty mouth watering.  Enjoy!

Image Facts:

The picture is smallish in terms of an image suitable for  print quality but for the web it is pretty big,  (it’s all about the dpi = dots per inch). In any case, the pic is  650px by 478px and is a .png file (meaning it’s background is transparent) , and would print out at about a 2″ by 1.5″ rectangle at  300 dpi. The higher resolution can be obtained by clicking on the picture below.

If you save  this image using right-click, on your Windows software its resolution  is only at 72 dpi and it approximately 288px by 212px and it is a jpeg file.

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Free Vintage Graphic – Victorian Scrap

This is a picture of a lovely victorian hand calling card (i.e. victorian scrap)  with roses and a lovely white dove.  The picture is small at 500px by 280px and is a .png file (the background is transparent), and would print out at about a 1″ by 1.5″ rectangle at  300 dpi. The higher resolution can be obtained by clicking on the picture below.

If you save  this image using right-click, on your Windows software its resolution  is only at 72 dpi.

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2 More Great Sites for Free Vintage Images

 

Here are two additional websites to add to your list of great websites for vintage ephemera and  vintage images.

I’m always on the lookout for websites that have an eclectic mix of great vintage images and a user friendly TOU (terms of use) policy and I have found a few more sites to tack on to my previous list of great vintage image resource sites.

Both of these sites provide an eclectic mix of vintage images from antique paper, to vintage  banners and labels, vintage advertisements, Victorian ornate frames, angels etc. that are mostly sourced from public domain images and thus should be copyright free.

If your plans are to use the images solely for personal projects than there are no concerns, but if you want to use the images for websites or scrap for hire projects than these sites will provide just the images you need for your vintage web or online projects.

The blog owners also have their own Etsy stores and naturally they want you to visit; regardless, the blogs are geared to providing free vintage images and the personal marketing for their stores is almost nonexistent. 

Most of the images are jpgs, so you will have to do your own image editing to remove the background and create your own .png files.  That may be a drawback for you; however,  for the most part the sites are a great resource.

I have included a screenshot of the main page of each website.  Both websites include a list of images by subject on the blog’s sidebar in case you want access to a specific type of image.

Hope you enjoy these finds!

1. Vintage Feed Shack

Vintage Feed Shack website screenshot

 

 

2. Old Design Shop

 

Old Design Shop website

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