Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s box with lion I do force myself to

I do force myself to resist a lot of them

I’d like to imagine this was once the lid of a box that held a set of beautiful bone carved letters

Lots of chipping to the white paint

They are hand numbered in pencil at top center (this one is 4

The green of the water as it reaches the shore is all the richer and lusher in person

Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s box with lion I do force myself toA very sweet group of 24 "nature studies," housed in a cloth covered three ring binder though those binder rings pull at the holes in the somewhat brittle paper, making them not so easy to flip through so I'd keep them loose inside, or get some of these into frames. Sometimes one loves love herbarium for their exquisiteness, and sometimes for the humble earnestness this is more the latter, but really very lovely too. I love the paper they were done