c. 1900 Armour’s Beef Tea Chicago Restaurant Porcelain Mug antique glass negative As darning was a skill

As darning was a skill taught to young women of all classes--including in orphanages

There are a range of different nails

and what looks like maybe like a tiny hooded with on broomstick flying overhead

I loved finding these pretty lacquered checkers and clay marbles wrapped in their original cardboard box

c. 1900 Armour’s Beef Tea Chicago Restaurant Porcelain Mug antique glass negative As darning was a skillIn recent years we've see a renewed espousing of the benefits of beef tea or bone broth, but Armour's Chicago was making it and distributing it widely at the very beginning of the 1900s in ohotos I've including an ad for it c. 1902. Philip D. Armour, a native of New York State, made a substantial fortune in the pork packing business in Milwaukee in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, then In 1875 moved to Chicago to take charge of Armour & Co.