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Victorian Seed Company Advertising Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 18 Printable Pieces

Victorian Seed Company Advertising Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 18 Printable Pieces

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A ready-made vintage seed advertising junk journal kit of 18 printable seed company cards from the 1870s to 1890s: D. M. Ferry & Co.'s pansies, asters, nasturtiums, mignonette, portulaca and morning glories, Vick's Choice Seeds cards, and Rice's Seeds cards with prize vegetables like an 81-pound watermelon, a muskmelon, a scarlet radish and a dapper tomato gentleman, plus Livingston's Perfection tomato. Bright chromolithograph colours, old seedsman lettering and garden flowers make them perfect for garden and cottagecore journals, seed packet pockets, planners, scrapbooking, card making and tags.

Print sizes at 300 dpi (they vary by piece type; files are never resized):
• Chromolithograph seed advertising cards (18): about 5 × 9 in up to 6 × 11 in, journal, tag and card size
Everything also prints smaller (A5, A6, tags, ATCs) with no loss.

Pieces included: Pansies, D. M. Ferry & Co. seed card, 1889; Asters, D. M. Ferry & Co. seed card, 1889; Mignonette, D. M. Ferry & Co. seed card, 1889; Nasturtium, D. M. Ferry & Co. seed card, 1889; Portulaca, D. M. Ferry & Co. seed card, 1889; Morning glory, D. M. Ferry & Co. seed card, 1889; Vick's Choice Seeds card with flowers; Vick's Choice Seeds card with a waterfall and blossoms; Vick's Choice Seeds banner card with flowers; James Vick's Choice Seeds, Rochester, N.Y.; "Try Rice's Seeds" leaf card; "Cuban Queen, 81 pounds" watermelon card, Rice's Seeds; Hubbard squash, "Rice's seeds are the best"; New Montreal Nutmeg muskmelon, Rice's box of choice vegetables, 1887; Turner Hybrid tomato card, Rice's box of choice vegetables, 1887; Vick's early scarlet globe radish, Rice's box of choice vegetables, 1887; Livingston's Perfection tomato card; Charles F. Saul seeds and hardware card, Syracuse, N.Y..

Files: 18 high-resolution JPGs in one zip download (33 MB). Pixel sizes: seed cards about 2,800–3,600 px on the long edge. These are the full-size museum and library scans. Nothing is cropped or resized: each card is shown whole, edges included.

Source and rights: Boston Public Library, 19th Century American Trade Cards collection, via Digital Commonwealth ("No known copyright restrictions"; rights statement No Copyright – United States). Anonymous American chromolithograph advertising cards printed c. 1870–1900.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.

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