Elmer S. Hill, Haydenville MA, 1887 Christmas Eve Drawing retablo plenty of wear but structurally

plenty of wear but structurally sound and stable

and a little staining here and there on inside (white wool) pages

wall inscriptions

created for his kids--and I am pretty certain had quite a lot of fun making

with just light rusting

Elmer S. Hill, Haydenville MA, 1887 Christmas Eve Drawing retablo plenty of wear but structurallyWay too early to think about Christmas I think, but it is starting to feel a bit cozy, and this is the last of the drawings I pulled from a wonderful notebook by Elmer S. Hill of Haydenville MA, so here is it. I really love that each of the four stockings hung by the fire is of a different size, and that the fire grate looks like a canoe, and I like that drawing of the chair best of all. Dated 1887 at upper right. I have found a definitive record of