Beautiful Old Solid Wood Architectural Building Blocks Set carvings I'm having a really hard

I'm having a really hard time resisting little handmade creatures

and then periodically making a big event of pulling it out to get everything squared away

This is a 1940 copy (the second photo shows another uncovered copy listed separately) and features some pretty great photographs and diagrams

I just love those clasped hands at their waists

while she was  teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division

Beautiful Old Solid Wood Architectural Building Blocks Set carvings I'm having a really hardI'm a sucker for nice old wooden blocks, and these are really lovely. Though without its slide top lid, I think the box is original to them, and think they likely date to the first quarter of the 20th century, though could be even a bit older than that. There are probably a handful of them missing, but almost a full box still, and I must say that in laying them out to photograph them, I was really tempted to spend a few hours playing. Classic, modular