Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s Northwest coast native as a planter for a

as a planter for a narcissus or amaryllis

Cover plus 6 interior pages (all pictured in photos - 3 pages of diagrams

featuring two workers using a Chinese wheelbarrow--distinct from European wheelbarrows in its design

The platter is signed on the bottom in glaze

Francois-Joseph I (Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire)

Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s Northwest coast native as a planter for aThis drawing takes me straight to a park in New York, sitting on a bench and watching this woman who has surely made a daily habit of coming to feed these birds. While notes on the drawing ("red and blue dots" written on the woman's shoulder, and "brilliant blue and green birds" at bottom right) suggest that this was a quick sketch in advance of a more finished drawings, I think the looseness and lack of color, combined with the way her hair falls