Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover sculptural chain still in near pristine condition

still in near pristine condition

I know very little about astronomy

and was pretty smart to paint the red border and ruled lines to bump up against with these wonderful black letters

I love that there is a printed note inside the box noting that wood expands and contracts

perhaps sitting in an old wooden bowl on the counter filled sea salt

Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover sculptural chain still in near pristine conditionEmily Ackerley's 1870 sketchbook has seen better days what remains is the cover and 11 pages of drawings, filled on both front and back but I think some of these are pretty great (and she definitely thought so too, signing most every one, often a few times on a page.) I know from a couple of additional drawings I pulled from this is that Ackerley lived in Sing Sing, New York, the village on the Hudson which changed its name to Ossining in 1901 to