Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA schoolgirl craft Paper not fragile or brittle

Paper not fragile or brittle

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

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

simple gestures

Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA schoolgirl craft Paper not fragile or brittleOne 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