Lot of Three Drawings Plus Letter by Dorothy Washburn, Boston, 1908-10 teaching semaphore scrapes and paint loss here

scrapes and paint loss here and there

The decorative cut wood bits

but I think such a winning one

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 scrapes and paint loss hereA 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