Elmer S. Hill, Haydenville MA, 1880s "The Old Homestead" Drawing woman and child and some flyaway hairs

and some flyaway hairs

which I am completely taken with--gentle and sweet without being saccharine

happily attached to a great black painted wooden post with gold painted pointy finial

I REALLY love this box

and hitting the target at the center will pop them back up--which of course one can do manually

Elmer S. Hill, Haydenville MA, 1880s "The Old Homestead" Drawing woman and child and some flyaway hairsThe notebook in which I found this and a number of other drawings by Elmer S. Hill of Haydenville MA was already coming apart with some pages loose, so I went ahead and divided it up and am listing these wonderful drawings individully. For me, it is the tiny details on these that make these especially special, and the details in this one perhaps most of all between the two carts, little chairs, blazing fire in brick fireplace, clock on the mantle and