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Victorian Advertising Posters Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 20 Printable Pieces

Victorian Advertising Posters Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 20 Printable Pieces

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A ready-made Victorian advertising junk journal kit of 20 printable advertising posters and show cards printed in rich chromolithography between 1854 and about 1910: perfumery and Florida water, writing inks, hair tonic and liniment, corsets and solar tip shoes, a sewing machine works, a food chopper, a mowing machine, lawn tennis sets, moonlit toboggan runs, bread, horse food, lager and bock beer, leather oil and a pair of terrestrial and celestial globes. Bold shop-sign lettering and ornate borders make them perfect for vintage kitchen, shop and retro journals, collage, planners, scrapbooking, card making and tags.

Print sizes at 300 dpi (they vary by piece type; files are never resized):
• Chromolithograph advertising posters and show cards (20): about 13 × 18 in up to 29 × 34 in, big enough for A4 / letter prints and framing
Everything also prints smaller (A5, A6, tags, ATCs) with no loss.

Pieces included: Harrison's Columbian Perfumery, Philadelphia, c. 1854; Star toboggans, sledding by night, c. 1887; Horsman's celebrated lawn tennis, c. 1882; Barker's Nerve & Bone Liniment, c. 1883; "Mother's Bread", pure as mother made it, 1900s; Empire Sewing Machine Co., New York, c. 1870; Ayer's Hair Vigor for the toilet, 1886; The Climax Mower, Corry Machine Co., c. 1869–72; François Grégoire & Co., Enamel of America, c. 1866; The Universal Food Chopper and a few of the things it chops, 1899; Thomson's glove-fitting corsets, 1874; Thaddeus Davids & Co. writing inks, c. 1857; "Fresh and cold": lager beer direct from the North Pole, 1877; The genuine Murray & Lanman Florida Water, 1880; John Mundell & Co.'s solar tip shoes, c. 1889; Gordon's Food for horses & cattle, 1880s; Bock beer, girl riding a goat, c. 1883; Val. Blatz's premium export Milwaukee lager beer, c. 1879; Vacuum Leather Oil, harness racer, c. 1890; Evan's Excelsior globes, 1899.

Files: 20 high-resolution JPGs in one zip download (482 MB). Pixel sizes: advertisements about 5,600–10,400 px on the long edge. These are the full-size museum and library scans. Nothing is resized. Eight scans had a thin dark scanner border, which is trimmed off to the paper edge; every other piece is shown whole.

Source and rights: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Popular Graphic Arts and related collections, digital files scanned from the original prints; "no known restrictions on publication". Chromolithographs and lithographs printed c. 1854–1910 by Alphonse Bigot (died 1872), P. S. Duval & Son, Snyder, Black & Sturn, Henry Seibert & Bros., Graphic Company, A. Hoen & Co., L. Prang & Co. (Louis Prang died 1909), Wittemann Brothers, Phoenix Lithographing Co., Wells & Hope Co., Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co., Gray Lithograph Co. and other unrecorded printers; the Climax Mower design is by Louis Maurer (died 1932).

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.

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