20th Century Clipart

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Contact

Questions or concerns: @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca on Mastodon, or email help@txw.ca.

About

This site catalogues and preserves 20th century clipart and stock photography. You are welcome to browse this selection of human-made 20th century art, and save your favourites.

The sources listed below were obtained from macintoshgarden.org, an amazing abandonware resource. The data was extracted from the software packages, and presented here as a gallery.

Using the artwork

Hover a piece for copy and download buttons.
Drag it straight into Photopea, Figma or a folder. Dragging gives you the full-size file, not the thumbnail.
Vector sets export as real SVG, so they paste into Figma, Canva or Illustrator as editable vectors rather than as a bitmap.
Saved selections download as a ZIP with a credits file naming every piece and its publisher.

Languages

Category names are translated. The names of individual pieces are left exactly as they were on the original disks.

Thoughts, corrections or takedown requests: @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca on Mastodon, or email help@txw.ca.

Sources

Colophon

The interface is built on IBM's Carbon Design System and typeset in IBM Plex. Carbon is released under the Apache License 2.0 and IBM Plex under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Neither IBM nor the Carbon team is connected with this archive.

Recovering the artwork relied on open-source tools: unar and The Unarchiver for the StuffIt archives, hfsutils for HFS volumes, netpbm and ImageMagick for the bitmap formats, libcdr from the Document Liberation Project for Corel's CMX vectors, and JSZip for the downloads. The reader for MFS, the 1984 Macintosh filesystem, was written for this project because nothing available could read those disks.

20th Century Clipart does not claim rights to any of the artwork catalogued here. Each set is credited to its publisher above. To the best of our knowledge these are obsolete versions of software from the 1980s and 1990s. Most of the titles are long discontinued; where a product line is still sold today it is marked © above. If you hold rights to any of this work, or can identify a set listed as unverified, reach me on Mastodon at @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca or email help@txw.ca — it will be credited or removed accordingly.