Vintage Christmas (Dover Pictura Electronic Clip Art)

We like to create our own Christmas cards and decor using nostalgia clip art. This is a colorful and beautiful book complete with CD of all the graphics in the book. The majority of the graphics are postcards from the early 1900's. There are some graphics from the 1930s-50s. I was hoping this book would concentrate on graphics from the 1940s-1960s era, but I can still create other types of decorations with the older graphics as well. It would be nice if the same company published a book/CD combo that featured more Christmas/Holiday graphics from the 1950s-1970s, which is more of my childhood era.

Some images are too small for my use as a professional designer but most are really great.

Very nice!!

A wonderful item!

Holiday season fans will enjoy this all color collection of period illustrations. 361 graphic examples of Santa (lots and lots) gift tags, children, angels, decorative friezes and cartouches, lettering and more. I thought it was an interesting mix though it seems that most of the material would be pre-1940.You can enjoy the book as it is, pleasantly laid out with a slight drop shadow on many of the illustrations which makes them appear to hover on the page but nicely the book comes with a CD-ROM with all the art which you can scroll through individually on your monitor and Dover have gone the extra mile by having ninety examples as card templates for easy printing on card stock. Twenty pieces of art can be printed as postcards as well.One feature I did like were several examples of wrapping paper design with step-and-repeat motifs, these are used as whole page backgrounds on many pages. All the art in the book is numbered so it's easy to find on the disc.My only criticism is that there is not much material from the Fifties or Sixties (maybe a volume two?) but apart from that I thought this was a lovely collection of Christmas graphics, enjoyable just by turning the pages or using the individual graphics on the disc to create and print your own festive designs.

Perfect!