Need Vintage Seed Packet Art

I need either photos that look like vintage seed packets, or simply vintage-looking photos of vintage plants that I can put on a virtual seed packet.

Anyone have any ideas?

thanks!

SFC - If you have MSWord:

>Open Word
>Click on Clip Art Icon (mine is at the bottom of the screen)
>An info box will open on the right
>Search for : Vegetable or something similar
> Select : All Collections
>Results should be : put a check mark where you want to
> Click : Go

If you need more help, let me know.

i'll try that out later, thanks honeybee!

much appreciated!

Inside MS Word, if the Clip Art Icon isn't visible:


Insert
Picture
Clip Art
(search)
(wait)

yep, did that.

didn't like what I found. I'll figure something out.

thanks, though - I had completely forgot that I posted this query till i logged in and it came up on my screen. :)

There are some seed catalogs that have vintage-like sketches and graphics, but I guess that would be violating copyrights to use them?

yes, i would be violating copyright laws which is why I wanted to create my own. that's okay - i'll figure it out. :)

thanks to everything who commented. greatly appreciated.

The software that came with my digital camera allows me to adjust the pictures into various other formats. You can get a retro look with the sepia setting, change to black and white. There's also ones called Coloring Book, Cartoon and fish-eye. Maybe you can play around with some of these using your own pics. Just an idea, fwiw.

Here's a recent tomato plant picture in its natural state.

Cartoon

Coloring Book

Spotlight

Finally - sepia. Not too great on this pic but it works nicely for some.

SFC - you could also Google "Free Clip Art" there is plenty out there, although you do have to be careful they don't contain viruses.

Maybe the USDA?
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PS Maybe the Smithsonian?

http://collections.si.edu/search/

"Search over 7.4 million records with 568,100 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries"

wow! thanks, kmom!

It sounds like the USDA collection is physcial photos on paper, not e-images?

I got some electronic images from the USDA when I wrote a paper for school last year. I emailed the "for more info" person on whatever USDA site I was on while doing research and they sent me some .jpg's. Also, they said I could use any of the photos that I found on their site (with proper citation). So while it looks like there is not comprehensive database, it might still be a viable place to find photos.