Beulah Ernst’s 1922 “Weed Book” and “Tree Project Book” Full of Cyanotype Solar Prints jar with pipe its scale and pen work

its scale and pen work made with think of Spencerian drawings minus all of the calligraphic flourishes--which seems right when rendering the proud head of a bull

and then fired their BB gun all over it (and surely took many additional shots that missed entirely)

but these old hand-drawn postcards have become my favorite thing of late

from flower basket to candlestick to snapping turtle

Some age toning /uneveness of color on front and back

Beulah Ernst’s 1922 “Weed Book” and “Tree Project Book” Full of Cyanotype Solar Prints jar with pipe its scale and pen workI was completely sold on this pair of notebookscreated by a miss Beulah Ernst in 1922by the cover of the Weed Book alone, and felt pretty certain that a handmade notebook with such a title along with a cyanotype clover on the cover would be something I would love! Indeed, 19 more cyanotype solar prints inside that one, capturing leaves of ferns, violets, strawberry, mallow, dandelion, goldenrod, yarrow, and many more. On the reverse side , in most