You know I love my little vintage wagons. Even old and damaged red wagons. They’re sweet and practical. I’m guessing they do a little sumthin’ for you too, so I’m sharing two pages of 1940s hardware catalog images as free clip art.{ Enlarged Clip Art Image Detail }

Simply click on the images to access the PDF digital downloads. Look, now you have your own collection of vintage wagons, too!

Design notes: The faux flash card image above was created first in Adobe Illustrator using one of the wagons. I added my name to the side, then distressed the type using the “roughen” effect. I copied and isolated a section of the wagon to create the red area and placed it behind the illustration. Then I placed both onto an image of the back of an old Bingo card I’d scanned years ago and use often for background effects. I copied and pasted the combined images into Photoshop and used Mister Retro Permanent Press filter as I wrote about on my design blog. Additionally, I added a bit of texture using a standard PS filter.