Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s Seattle carver spanning 1st grade to high

spanning 1st grade to high school

the cryptic note

revealing as much about the viewer as the subject

both aesthetically and as a great

Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s Seattle carver spanning 1st grade to highA 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