1917 Farmyard Favorites

 "Agriculture is our wisest pursuit,

because it will in the end contribute most to

real wealth, good morals, and happiness."

~ Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington (1787) ~

I didn't grow up on a farm, but my husband did.  We live just down the road from the original homestead of Catherine & Edward Berry, my husband's (5 times) great-grandparents, who settled here in 1807.  Several generations of farming families are the result of what they started over 200 years ago.

Here are two tags I created using original graphics

from a children's book (the title and back cover pages),

combined with a Farm Sale document from 1792.

I made the green tag smaller for the collage sheet.

To see the image at full size, left click then right click

and select 'View Image.'

 These are the original images I scanned, then cleaned up a bit.

Note that I did brighten up both graphics for the tags. 

The book is actually 13.5" by 9.5", so a fairly good size.

It's copyright ~ 1917.

I'm sharing these at Angie's Knick of Time Tuesday
as well as here, Vintage Thingie Thursday

All graphics are free for your personal use ~ Enjoy!

If you use them, please let me know...

Thanks for stopping by!