Vintage Medicine Labels Ephemera

Printable Victorian Era medicine and pharmacy labels for scrapbooking, prop making, set dressing theater, film, RPG gaming, and historic replicas.

Pharmacy labels of days gone by are without a doubt some of the most beautiful (and hilarious) specimens of graphic design! This set of 160 medicine and apothecary labels date to the 19th century, an age of medicine shows, miracle cures, and healing quackery. In addition to poison warnings and snake oil medicines, you'll also find labels for ink bottles and familiar baking extracts for the kitchen. Add some vintage ephemera to your medicine cabinet and junk journals or set dress a 19th century druggist shop for a film or stage production! Enjoy the life affirming benefits of this graphic prop set which is sure to make your hair shinier, cure your ague, and make your pain and freckles disappear!

This graphic prop set includes

-12 sheets (8.5x11 PNGs at 600 dpi) of black/white and color labels.

-1 Adobe Illustrator file of 20 editable vector labels designed to look like glass labels on large apothecary bottles used to hold individual powdered chemicals. (The font used is an Adobe font and requires a Creative Cloud subscription to edit. However, you can substitute a font of your own choice as well!)

The colored labels are on a transparent background. The black and white labels are not transparent but will print without the white background on colored paper (your printer should ignore the white space and just print the black). If using the black and white labels in Photoshop or Illustrator with textured backgrounds, set the layer blend mode to "multiply" to make the white space transparent.