I'm so in love with these fat little cherubs and baby angels! I've been doing research into these types of vintage trade cards and artists that made them to add to my archive. I sometimes make journals and cards. You can right click the ones in this page and save for your own personal use. I've already cleaned them up for you.
My latest find is the Raphael Tuck & Sons "Art" cards. There is a fascinating history there about this company to discover. If not archived, these types of cards and their artists would be lost to history forever so why not keep them going?
They are free to use in the public domain. But you need to make your own copy and not take them from someone else (unless they give you permission to use them). Some people spend a lot of time cleaning them up, resizing them and formatting them to sell online so you either pay for that or go get your own.
I will share my resources with you because I do not sell them nor do I have a download site. I am retired and just enjoy playing with my graphics and sharing a few with friends. You can get these and much more from a free public domain site of the works of Raphael Tuck & Sons called tuckdbpostcards.org . When you run across other Tuck cards you can pull them up by their number on the cards... more detective work for you.
I also have a few new resources to share for public domain graphics and free for personal use sites. You can also download postcard backs to these, print them off separately and just glue them on the backs for a nice weighted card for all your projects.
Like most of the Tuck cards, these are from a set of six but one of them is duplicated (and written on) so I didn't include it here.
I will include the full sheet for you to print out. I've done all the cleanup work so these four postcards are print ready.
The backs do not line up with the front so you can't just flip it over and print on both sides of your cardstock paper but you can print two sheets, cut them out and glue them together if you want postcard backs on them..
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