Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples old composition doll with its long narrow form

with its long narrow form especially perfect for filling with old snapshots

Not a hugely unusual antique mirror

The combination of red painted wooden frame and silver tin drawers arranged in a neat grid on this little wallhanging hardware chest really does it for me

which could be listed painter Franklin Stanwood

the text is super clear and readable

Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples old composition doll with its long narrow formA very sweet pile of old schoolgirl sewing exercises, which it seems clear were once held in a sewing notebook (there are old oval shaped white stickers at the edges of many of them, which I've not removed but easily come off, which would have been used to mount them onto pages, likely accompanied by notes as to the skills being demonstrated. Examples of darning, weaving, and various sorts of mending, stitching, joining, hemming, etc. plus a draw