Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s notebooks to the cabbage leaves rolled

to the cabbage leaves rolled up in our girl's apron

When my dealer friend in Maine

I'm always excited to find beautifully designed old creative learning materials

which to my eye amplifies an interesting tension between image

Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s notebooks to the cabbage leaves rolledQuite a set! All made by the same young person, it appears hand drawn, ink and watercolor on light weight card, cut out by hand, most of the figures with tabs added on reverse for standing them up. And quite a cast of characters mother and father, a bunch of daughters and a son, two women who might be aunts or nannies or teachers , and one older, with patches on her apron, I take for a maid. And then a couple of smaller scale, cartoonish looking boys,