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

plenty of wear but structurally sound and stable

I particularly love that the chimney serves as the coin drop

with just light rusting

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

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