Set of Three Late 19th Century Educational and Industrial Drawing Notebooks Penobscot basket I was thrilled to find

I was thrilled to find this one at an antiques show last week--to my sensibilities an ideal example of a hair work wreath

portrait paintings of lovely ladies to admire

such that the silhouette of what are surely meant to be feathers on a Native American figure also could be read as bunny ears

and a little surface roughness on the inside of the curves of the necks

which is still holding together very sturdily

Set of Three Late 19th Century Educational and Industrial Drawing Notebooks Penobscot basket I was thrilled to findThe covers on these are pretty rough detached in the case of two of them but I've got a weakness for these old drawing instruction books, especially the more minimal ones as these are (focused on simple shapes, designs and patterns) and there are a couple curious drawings in here all their own (faces, skeletons.) I have not done a comprehensive job photographing, but photos here give a good sense a few favorites pages first, then a sampling of a few