Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA schoolgirl craft one-of-a-kind box and board with

one-of-a-kind box and board with great character and  many years of play left in it

perhaps remnants of some sort of chiseling or chipping process

Paper not fragile or brittle

I'm never quire sure with a carved boot of this near full sized scale whether it was a folk creation or a cobbler's display piece

I think all to the good

Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA schoolgirl craft one-of-a-kind box and board withOne of a couple more today by a young J. H Adair of Spring Grove, PA, c. 1905, which I purchased together; just my sort of drawings. I found a number of Neiswangers in Lancaster Country, PA , including two Henrys, one born in 1796 and one in 1857, both of whom ultimately wound up in Ohio. I'm a sucker for a Pennsylvania folk art drawing of a barn, but it's the specific of this one I really love, with the majority of attention paid to detailing the