FOBO - Home Words for Heart and Hearth (page 2/2)

The front cover for the collected issues of Home Words for 1888 is blue with gilt decoration and lettering. It bears the text, “The Heart has many a dwelling place But only once a Home.” [more...]

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Vintage Rustic border of Twigs

A Victorian rustic border made of repeating straight twig segments, crossed at the corners. [more...]

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Music Hath Charms

A boy in a farmyard sits on a large wooden barrel open next to a well-pump and plays the flute. He wears a tunic down to his knees, a hat, leggings (we just see one knee) and I think tall boots. There’s a calf nearby, and half-timberes [...] [more...]

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Oiling the Wheels.

A bearded man stands next to a machine made from giant cogs and wheels; he is oiling an axle. In the background behind him is a counter where a person stands facing away from us and towards a man on the other side of the counter; the person facing away has one hand [...] [more...]

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The Blizzard in America; Dead Boy in the Snow

The engraving shows a bly lying face up in teh snow, partly covered by it; from the accompanying text we know he is dead: [more...]

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Our Princess Royal: The Empress-Dowager Victoria of Germany

“OUR PRINCESS ROYAL:” [more...]

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September.

A page with three main text areas surrounded by a border featuring pheasant and grouse, rabbit, a country church with its lych-gate, nuts (acorns on the left, horse chestnut at centre-right), wheat, fruits and other Autumn/harvest motifs, and, at the bottom, a sailing boat with a distant light-house on a cliff. The three texts [...]separate image with just the authumn border. [more...]

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September Harvest Page Template.

A page template with three main text areas surrounded by a border featuring pheasant and grouse, rabbit, a country church with its lych-gate, nuts (acorns on the left, horse chestnut at centre-right), wheat, fruits and other Autumn/harvest motifs, and, at the bottom, a [...] [more...]

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John Bunyan’s Cottage

An engraving of the cottage in Elstow where John Bunyan lived, and a portrait of him. [more...]

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Mr. Edison’s New Phonograph

Mr. Edison in his laboratory receiving the first phonogram from England. [more...]

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