Clara Hall's Early 20th Century School Artwork Portfolio with Watercolors, Drawings, Design, More antique cut paper hand a couple of hairline cracks

a couple of hairline cracks and little paint loss here and there

again and again

with a dark cardboard backing

which in some child's imagination surely embarked on all sorts of sea adventures

Clara Hall's Early 20th Century School Artwork Portfolio with Watercolors, Drawings, Design, More antique cut paper hand a couple of hairline cracksSo fun finding this one quite a trove, all the work of a young Miss Clara Hall, who seems to have held on to every bit of her school artwork from the years around 1914 and kept it all inside a handmade, hard cover portfolio. Lots of individual treasures here that I think transcend their life as exercises, but as a whole also creating quite a comprehensive portrait of how art was taught in grade school in the earlyish 20th century. Photos document