Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples old composition doll to me these are just

to me these are just a fabulous meld of folk art dolls and naive drawings and fashion plates and paper craft

which could be listed painter Franklin Stanwood

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

He was blest with large understandings

Not a hugely unusual antique mirror

Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples old composition doll to me these are justA 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