Antique Graphics Wednesday - 1800's Advertisements

I've been doing some projects
today with some of the graphics seen here,
which I'll show you at the end of the post.

If you'd like to use any of these images
for your projects, just right click on them
to save and/or print.

These all come from some mid to late 1800's
Peterson's Magazines.  I got a stack of
them at an auction early in the summer,
and they are just priceless!

On the off-chance there is an advertising exec.
reading this post today,
TAKE NOTE -
I don't care what you are selling,
if your advertisements for products looked like these -
I'd be your most faithful customer.
These kinds of ads could make
hemorrhoid cream sound romantic!

 I do have some ads from
these magazines that are for products
that are less than charming, but
you'd never know it to look at the ads.
I'll post some of them in another edition
of Antiques Graphic Wednesday.
You'll get a kick out of them.

I'm glad we no longer call soap, "toilet soap",
{sounds like you should clean your pot with it}
but calling it La Belle Bouquet
redeems the toilet soap part.

This one is for Dr. Hebra's Viola Cream.
I'm guessing it didn't live up to its claims,
or surely it would still be on the market,
but it did have a beautiful advertisement.

Here's what I made with the smaller ads.

I didn't want to cut out these 2 little
ads and ruin the rest of the 120+ year old pages,
 so I printed them on old scrapbook paper
that already had a nicely aged color to it,
so the ads would look like originals.

These little frames were originally gold,

so I painted them with vanilla cream color.

The are tiny little frames and were perfect

for these small graphics.

I also framed the two larger Pears Soap ads.
I used the originals for this, because
I love the tattered edges of the pages
and I didn't need to harm the page to use them.

My frame cost $2 and started out like this

 I painted both the frame and the backing board
with more vanilla cream-colored paint,
the placed the pages on the board.
I didn't adhere them, because I don't want to
risk damaging them, in case I want to remove them later.

What a pretty gal in this illustration.
{no, I'm not referring to my reflection in the glass}

If you like feminine, antique graphics,
then I hope you loved these today.

Blessings,

Angie

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