Happy Easter Friends!

For today’s post I’m going to carry on the theme I started last year, with a roundup of all things that fall under the category, “Vintage Easter”. This will include photos, ads, kitschy vintage Easter items for sale and anything else I can find. Of course it’s all from the 1920’s to the 1960’s.

Okay friends let’s begin the Easter fun!

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Vintage Easter Shopping: I have a collection of Vintage Easter items for sale on Etsy that I update monthly. Happy Shopping!

Vintage Easter Images, Advertising, Recipes & More-Part 2!

1920’s – 1960’s

1950s Vintage Photo: Easter egg race winners, Gatineau Park, Quebec, 1957.

1950s Vintage Image of Easter egg race winners, Gatineau Park, Quebec, 1957
Source: Tumblr

Yummy Easter Egg Cake with Recipe (1953). Main ingredients: Swans Down Yellow Cake Mix and Baker’s Unsweetened Chocolate.

If any of my readers end up making this cake please let me know how it was!

FURTHER READING: Vintage Cooking Recipes as seen in Vintage Ads from the 1930s-1950s & Vintage Easter Advertising – The Food

1950s Vintage Food Advertisement / 1950s Easter Advertising featuring a 1953 Easter Egg cake recipe
Source: Tumblr

Easter Sunday, 1950 vintage photo featuring a very stylish woman all dressed up in her Easter best.

Further Reading: Do You Have An Easter Parade Hat?

John W. Mosley - Easter Sunday, c. 1950 vintage image of a Black woman all dressed up in a stylish 1950s coat and 1950s hat with fur.
Source: Tumblr

Blog Post by the Vintage Inn: Let’s do the Bunny Hop!

History, images and videos of everyone’s favourite holiday dance craze…The Bunny Hop!

The Bunny Hop history by the vintageinn blog

1940s vintage photo: “Then the Easter Eggs danced.” Easter Party held by Glen Taylor School, Walnut Creek, California in 1949 via Life Magazine.

1940s Vintage Photo: "Then the Easter Eggs danced." Easter Party held by Glen Taylor School, Walnut Creek, California in 1949 via Life Magazine.
Source: Retro Musings

“Mr. Bunny Paints the Eggs” -Vintage 1940s Children’s Book by Lee Maril Illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz.

Mr. Bunny Paints the Eggs Vintage 1940s Children's Book by Lee Maril Illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz
Source: Etsy
Mr. Bunny Paints the Eggs Vintage 1940s Children's Book by Lee Maril Illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz
Source: Etsy

1920s fashions on dispaly in this vintage Easter image from Washington, D.C. “Easter Sunday, 1925.”

1920s Vintage Photo: 1920s fashions on dispaly in this vintage Easter image from Washington, D.C. "Easter Sunday, 1925."
Source: National Photo Co

Milky Ways…my favourite! 1950s vintage Easter ad.

1950s Vintage Advertisement: Easter Ad for Milky Ways
Source: Pinterest

In London, the Easter eggs are bigger (1936). Cute 1930s photo of a 2 young girls holding giant Easter eggs.

Easter Shopping in London 1936. Cute 1930s photo of a 2 young girls holding giant Easter eggs.
Source: Tumblr

Easter egg colouring kit, 1940s.

Vintage Easter Egg Colouring Kit 1940
Source: Found in Mom’s Basement

Easter Greeting Card vintage ad from 1949 for ‘American Greeting Cards’.

Easter Greeting Card vintage ad from 1949 for 'American Greeting Cards'.
Source: Pinterest

Video of the famous NYC Easter Parade (1950).

Easter in Chicago, 1941. Fantastic 1940s hats, dresses and shoes!

Easter Parade Chicago 1941 featuring 3 well dressed Black women in 1940s hats, 1940s coats and 1940s dresses. Including fantastic stylish 1940s shoes.
Source: get bent

Easter Favourites…Chocolate! What is your fav treat during this time of the year? Share in the comments below.

Late 1930s early 1940s chocolate advertisement for Whitman's Chocolates. Vintage Ad.
Source: Found in my mom’s basement

Once again, Happy Easter! I hope you all have a lovely weekend doing whatever you traditionally (or not so traditonally do). I’m off to see the families, so lots of driving all over Ontario. Good thing I will have all that chocolate to keep my energy up.

FURTHER READING:

Take care everyone!

Liz