Lot of Three Drawings Plus Letter by Dorothy Washburn, Boston, 1908-10 teaching semaphore gold lace sewn onto it

gold lace sewn onto it along the top edge

and then there is a little wooden support glued to the backside keeps it upright

but I think such a winning one

scrapes and paint loss here and there

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

Lot of Three Drawings Plus Letter by Dorothy Washburn, Boston, 1908-10 teaching semaphore gold lace sewn onto itA 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