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When crafters, bloggers, scrapbookers and designers first discover vintage clip art, they’re like kids in a candy store because of the rich diversity of images that instantly becomes available to them. The shiny, hard look of some modern images is absent in vintage clip art. In fact, the subjects portrayed in the images are soft and sometimes downright naïve. They also sometimes reflect the prejudices of the time from which they hail. For example, African Americans were often portrayed as uneducated slaves in vintage art. Other ethnicities were similarly pigeon-holed according to the perceptions of the era they were created. But if you look beyond these prejudices and see them only as historical influences, the art stands on its own and is worthy of collecting.