12 Vintage Ephemera Advertising Cards
Today we have a marvelous collection of Ephemera Advertising Cards! The images featured below are beautifully aged black and white graphics. Included are nifty antique advertisements for shoes, coffees, tea, soap, blankets, and even cranberries. We also have interesting ads for a Christmas exhibition and a sale of toys and dolls. All are nice pictures to use in your craft or DIY Projects. They would all be fun for your Junk Journaling projects as well!
Colorful Antique Advertising Cards
This is a gorgeous Antique Card! It appears to be a business card for a Photographer. It has the most amazing colors and gorgeous fonts on it! And the background pattern is really lovely. This one was shared with me years ago, but a sweet reader named Dina.
And here is a second version of that card, where I have removed the text. The pattern is just gorgeous and would be great as the basis for a collage!
Ephemera Advertising Cards
This is a lovely old Coffee Advertisement! There are great graphics on this one, including the Lion and the Floral Branches. That is one stately looking Lion! The King of Coffees slogan surely refers to the Lion since he is the King of the Jungle. Such a great idea! The Typography is fabulous as well!
Here is the latest addition to this collection. This is another one for Coffee. I like the Morning Glory Brand name, so clever!
Isn’t this so fun?! It’s an advertisement for Snow soap. I love the hand with the ruffled sleeve!
This is a wonderful antique advertising trade card for a Tea company from Baltimore. This is actually the back of the card but I just loved the typography on this one!
This is a nifty old Victorian trade card! This old shoe advertisement has such wonderful typography. That looks like a pretty solidly built shoe by the look of the diagram!
Here we have a Beautiful Vintage Soap Ephemera Image! I love the patina on this piece and the Fancy Lettering used on the title. I would have liked to have known the great materials used in the soap!
Vintage Advertising Trade Cards
This amazing advertising card is from the Boston Toy Emporium. It is advertising Dolls, Toys, and Novelties. The ornate typography reminds me of her style!
Love, love, love this!!! This is the back of an antique trade card, and it has the most wonderful Typography on it!! The card was made to advertise a “Grande Christmas Exhibition,” also at a Boston Toy Emporium! I’ve kept it pretty much in its original condition; I think the staining and wear spots are perfectly lovely.
This is a wonderful piece of Antique Ephemera! It’s an old Ad for a New York merchant that sold Cape Cod Cranberries! I think this is such a quaint piece!
I hope you enjoyed this fun curated collection of Ephemera Advertising Cards! You might also like to browse our Best French Labels HERE.
Bobbie says
These are beautiful – thank you!
Karen Watson says
Thank you Bobbie!
Tracey Weiss says
An absolutely fabulous collection of ad cards! This is one of my favorites of your Friday emails. Thank you for gifting us with such beautiful images.
Karen Watson says
Thanks so much Tracey, I’m glad you enjoyed them. These are hard to find, but so fun to collect!
Kathy Asper says
I’m from Wisconsin so appreciated the link that you included for the Racine Woolen Mill. Fun to learn about that bit of history!
graphicsfairy says
Oh that is wonderful Kathy, thanks for sharing!
Maxine D says
thank you Karen – these are amazing, and I can see me using the first one (King of Coffee) for a specific birthday later in the year
Blessings
Maxine
graphicsfairy says
Thank you Maxine, Oh I am so glad to hear that you found a great way to use it, enjoy!
Tamara says
Thank you so much Karen.. this is exactly what I was looking for. I appreciate your generous sharing! Have a wonderful weekend..
Tamara <3
Karen June Miller says
Beautiful!
Anonymous says
Thank you for sharing so many treasures with us, love
every one of them.
Kathy
fairyrocks says
Love this !! I wonder sometimes about the bits I hang onto and if anyone 100 years from now will be charmed by them
Anonymous says
This is beautiful. I enjoyed it more after I “took a tour” this morning of the Macy’s Christmas window displays from past years at about.com.
As I am a “vintage” person myself, literally, it takes me back to a simpler, happier time when Christmas was not based on internet shopping & overnight shipping, etc. Trust me, I take advantage of that but have nostalgia for, I guess, my childhood.
silverandchalk says
what an amazing typeface! thank you!
Bec Clarke says
OH it’s so vintage and so nice, thank you so much and Merry Christmas.
Karen- The Graphics Fairy says
I’m so glad you guys love this one as much as I do!! I forgot to tell you all, there is a second one of these, with different wording, that I’ll be posting tomorrow!
Liszha says
Great stuff! ThaNKS!