1920 Hebron NH Entertainment Committee Badge with Shaking Hands carrying box One can't see the edges

One can't see the edges of the drawing through the frame and I have not opened it up

more detailed and refined

19 12" tall x 13" wide with dress fully spread

and also distinguishes it as much humbler than many fancier examples from same period

done instead on a wire mesh screen (which one imagines was left over from screening the porch or barn yard or making a strainer) and

1920 Hebron NH Entertainment Committee Badge with Shaking Hands carrying box One can't see the edgesA fun thing, which I thought could be aptly pinned to one's chest on all sorts of occasions! And the history of Old Home Days, specific to New Hampshire, and continuing to this day, is a rich one, established by Governor Frank Rollins in 1899 as a way to invite former residents of New Hampshire home at a time when the opening of the West, and lure of urban centers with industrial jobs had depleted New Hampshires rural areas. At its height it was