Lot of Three Drawings Plus Letter by Dorothy Washburn, Boston, 1908-10 teaching semaphore You have to look close

You have to look close

gold lace sewn onto it along the top edge

but the size of this I find just right

I'd love it filled with a a couple of tall flowering branches or a few huge Asiatic lilies

scrapes and paint loss here and there

Lot of Three Drawings Plus Letter by Dorothy Washburn, Boston, 1908-10 teaching semaphore You have to look closeA little research has led me to learn that the Dorothy Washburn who made these three drawings on Boston hotel letterhead was from a notable Boston family, who lived at least some of the time at 324 Beacon Street in Boston's Beacon Hill, in a beautiful brownstone erected by Washburn's grandfather and grandmother, Miles and Sarah, in 1880 1881. Records show that Dorothy and her brother Paul, and parents Paul and Mary, as well as grandmother Sarah also