Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA schoolgirl craft with these wonderfully large

with these wonderfully large

I'm never quire sure with a carved boot of this near full sized scale whether it was a folk creation or a cobbler's display piece

Paper not fragile or brittle

Structurally sturdy and sound with no splits or other issues and just wonderful

then mounted in a grid to a backing sheet quite long ago I believe (my guess is their presentation here is how they were originally mounted in an album

Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA schoolgirl craft with these wonderfully largeOne of a couple more today by a young J. H Adair of Spring Grove, PA, c. 1905, which I purchased together; just my sort of drawings. I found a number of Neiswangers in Lancaster Country, PA , including two Henrys, one born in 1796 and one in 1857, both of whom ultimately wound up in Ohio. I'm a sucker for a Pennsylvania folk art drawing of a barn, but it's the specific of this one I really love, with the majority of attention paid to detailing the