1945 Berry Seed Co.

I bought a seed catalogue a few years ago, while antiquing with my mom.  At the time, I bought it because my last name is Berry, and I loved the graphic design of the cover.  My husband and I also enjoy gardening, and he farms... so I couldn't pass it up.  Once home, I looked through, and found it to be an interesting piece of American history.  I've kept it stashed away until now...

This letter, written by J.F. Sinn, the President

of Berry Seed Company, was written before

the end of WWII. You can read it by left clicking

on the image and then enlarging to full size.

This was the order form

enclosed in the catalogue.

Here's some interesting history about

the town of Clarinda, Iowa, and

Berry Seed Company:

The best known national firm in Clarinda for many decades was Berry's Seed Company, a mail order farm seed distribution business founded in 1885 at Clarinda by A. A. Berry. Berry's Seed Company diversified into retail stores in the 1950s, but the stores were sold off over the following decade, and today the company, known as Berry's Garden Center, operates from its one remaining retail outlet in Danville, Illinois.

In 1943 during World War II, an internment camp designed for 3,000 prisoners of war with sixty barracks and a 150-bed hospital was built in Clarinda. German prisoners were the first to arrive at Camp Clarinda, followed in 1945 by Italian and Japanese POWs.

Hope you've enjoyed this 1945

Berry Seed Co. catalogue, as I have.

Graphics in this post are free for your

personal use. Thanks for stopping by!

Heavenly Blue...

Forget-me-nots

and violets heavenly

blue, spring, glittering

with the cheerful

drops like dew.

~ N. Mueller ~

3 forget-me-not journal cards ~

3x4 inches:

Printable with 6 cards and poem:

Here are the free graphics 

sources used in my artwork:

*Little Birdie Blessings*

Forget-me-nots and ivy

*Lost and Taken*

Diamond pattern texture

*Altered Bits*

Grungy texture

*Lilac & Lavender*

Oval frame

"Starred forget-me-nots

smile sweetly. Ring, blue-bells,

ring! Winning eye and heart

completely, Sing, robin, sing!"

~ Sarah F. Davis ~

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Memory of the Heart

"Gratitude is the

memory of the heart."

~ Jean Baptiste Massieu ~

  

Dark pink rose in original color
 

  

Dark pink rose ~ tinted blue

 

Yellow rose in original color

 

 

Yellow rose ~ tinted aqua

Hope you enjoy these rose &

"I am thankful for..." cards. Bundle

together and give to a friend, or attach

to the front of a journal to record

what you're thankful for each day...

Here are links to the free
rose graphics & font I used:

*Vintage Images*
Dark pink rose by Catherine Klein
Yellow rose by Catherine Klein

*Dafont.com*
Jane Austen

Please note that the images with
"I am thankful for..." in Jane Austen font
are for personal use only.  Thank you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Be Grateful for...

Be grateful for the kindly friends that walk along your way;
Be grateful for the skies of blue that smile from day to day;
Be grateful for the health you own, the work you find to do,
For round about you there are men less fortunate than you.

Be grateful for the growing trees, the roses soon to bloom,
The tenderness of kindly hearts that shared your days of gloom; 
Be grateful for the morning dew, the grass beneath your feet,
The soft caresses of your babes and all their laughter sweet.

Acquire the grateful habit, learn to see how blest you are,
How much there is to gladden life, how little life to mar!
And what if rain shall fall today and you with grief are sad;
Be grateful that you can recall the joys that you have had.

~ Edgar Guest ~

Postcard ~ 4 x 5.5 inches

What are you
grateful for today?


Here are the free graphics I used
to create the pretty postcard image:

*Vintage Feedsacks*
Beautiful roses by Redouté 

*Lilac & Lavender*
Back of postcard
(Miss Edith's address was from the original)
Butterfly PNG images

*The Sum of All Crafts*
Delicate rectangular frame

This is the day that

the LORD has made;
let us rejoice

and be glad in it.

~ Psalm 118:24 ~

Rewards of the simple life...

"To find the universal elements

enough; to find the air and the

water exhilarating; to be refreshed by

a morning walk or an evening saunter;

to be thrilled by the stars at night;

to be elated over a bird’s nest or

a wildflower in spring: these are some

of the rewards of the simple life." 

~ John Burroughs ~

Journal card ~ approx. 3 x 3 inches

Printable ~ journal cards & 2.5" round graphics

Journal card ~ approx. 4 x 5 inches

 

Journal card ~ approx. 3 x 5 inches

Here are the  free graphics &
sources used in my artwork:

*TuckDB postcards*
English cottage scene
Catherine Klein roses

*The Sum of All Crafts*
Delicate rectangular frame

*The Graphics Fairy*
Round apothecary label

*Lilac & Lavender*
"Antiqued" lined paper


Thanks for stopping by!