These frames can be used for framing everything from a family photo to a mug shot- whatever your cup of tea might be. Frames and borders are an excellent way to instantly stabilize a design and group all of a pages elements into one happy graphic fam
This is from the cover of an 1890 (of course, public domain) sheet music pamphlet. The music was for some patriotic jingle. I can just imagine this serving many other uses, or maybe wasting away on this corner of the web. Maybe it won't be used for *another* 110 years!
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