Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA wooden bird in cage I've had a few of

I've had a few of these over time

and which I'll be more than happy to keep for myself--that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook/sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition)

and a perfect form

This gives me total joy

I love these old bee boxes for the way that they embody individualistic solutions to the problem at hand (in this case there is a W

Henry Neiswanger's Barn with Stables, 1905 JH Adair Drawing, Spring Grove, PA wooden bird in cage I've had a few ofOne 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