Free Printable Vintage Holiday Greeting Cards

Do you save or collect old greeting cards? Do you love vintage artwork and images? Several sites on the net have made available vintage artwork, greeting cards, postal cards and clip art to print royalty free. Most images include the URL of the website. But you can print these images for personal use, so long as you don't sell or duplicate the images for profit. Use the vintage art to create personal cards, collages, decorate gift bags, boxes, bookmarks and stationary. You may not sell anything you make with the images.

Emotionscards is a website that features hundreds of greeting cards. The vintage cards are located on the Postcard and Greeting Card Museum link. The card manufacturing company is listed. L. Prang, F.A.Moss, Gibson and some early Hallmark cards. The country in which the card was created and printed are listed. Many of the images are printed in Germany, even though they were designed in the United States. The time period of the greeting card artwork varies. The earliest cards date from the later 1800s. Typically you will find the copyright date listed and then another date listed as 'c.1909' or 'circa. 1909' for example. C. and circa are Latin terms which indicate when the image entered circulation. There is also information included about the greeting card when available. The Museum has:

Vintage birth announcements (24)
New Year's Greetings (60)
Valentine images (100)
St. Patrick's Day (30)
Easter Cards (80). The Easter cards are almost all secular. Religious greeting cards were not often sent until past WWII.
Halloween cards (64). The images are whimsical and mischievous, not terrifying. Much of the art is what is known as Art Nouveau.
Thanksgiving Day (50) Interestingly, Thanksgiving cards were often exchanged by husbands and wives.
Christmas Cards (120)
Birthday Greetings (30)
Patriotic Cards (35)