Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s 1817 with bent twigs for the

with bent twigs for the sides and woven ash splint I believe for the back and seat

kept safe for posterity inside the  sheet protectors of a three ring binder

Very lovingly constructed

and Boston is not the same

and all the more so for the mix of old black and white paint on the face of some of them

Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s 1817 with bent twigs for theQuite a set! All made by the same young person, it appears hand drawn, ink and watercolor on light weight card, cut out by hand, most of the figures with tabs added on reverse for standing them up. And quite a cast of characters mother and father, a bunch of daughters and a son, two women who might be aunts or nannies or teachers , and one older, with patches on her apron, I take for a maid. And then a couple of smaller scale, cartoonish looking boys,