Spell with flickr

Use a screen capture to save your results.
Also check the One letter pool on flickr

Model hot air balloons

Instructions: How to Build Birthday Candle Engine Powered UFO Fire Balloons

Flora von Deutschland

Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Prof. Dr.Otto Wilhelm Thomé

Small and large (300 dpi) images
This page is part of Kurt Stübers online library of historic biological books

Free Vintage Images

From Above the Mark. There are four galleries of images.

Easter Postcards

Easter Postcards from the Elleanor "Nellie" Roberts Kreischer LaClair collection
circa 1907-1920's

Hand embroidery patterns

Andrea English shares a huge library of free patterns
for hand embroidery at Needlecrafter.com
Some are vintage, some are her original designs and others
are adapted from finished textiles in her collection.

Japanese Prints

Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA

This is from the Middle Edo Period. On the left are links to Late Edo and Meiji periods.

Valentine Postcards

Bill's Antique Photos

Bill invites us to download and print his photos for personal use.
How generous.

Visit the archives, pick a year and then view each month's selections.

1920's & 30's Travel Ephemera

Shared by David Levine

This is a virtual online gallery I've created to display and share the best items in my collection of 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera. It is not my whole collection, just a portion.

Everything on this website is original. The material is not reproductions. Nothing on this website is for sale, it is purely an online gallery. 

The Grandeur Of Life

A Celebration of Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species.

The Art Zone

Interactive art that you can make online from the
National Gallery of Art.
For kids of all ages.

Göttingen Model Book

Early instruction for illuminated manuscripts.
Enlarged images with translation.

Masterscans

From Artcyclopedia
A selection of great scans of great artworks from around the web.
One of the options is to view and save the images at their true size.

A Booke of Curious and strange Inventions

A Booke of Curious and strange Inventions, called the first part of Needleworkes, containing many singuler and fine sorts of Cut-workes, Raisde-workes, Stiches, and open Cutworke, verie easie to be learned by the dilligent practisers, that shall follow the direction herein contained. Newlie augmented. First imprinted in Venice, and now againe newly printed in more exquisite sort for the profit and delight o the Gentlewomen of England.

The link is to an archived version.
This wonderful resource had been taken off line but I found it again through my favorite Internet tool, Internet Archive Wayback Machine