Plant Samples - Beans, and Corn, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - Set 3 original illustrations This early 20th century tramp

This early 20th century tramp art frame is as much a sculptural object as a functional one

and incised patterns at their centers

The blocks are in great condition

or with these reinforced corners

Gently steal upon the ear

Plant Samples - Beans, and Corn, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - Set 3 original illustrations This early 20th century trampI found together a total of eleven of these rppcs documenting the growth of beans, corn, peas and oats in various soils and combinations, and just love them as beautiful photographs, for their indexical nature, for the wonderful hand written labels on the planters, and for being, as far as I know, quite unusual. The fact that they were produced as postcards suggests they were made to be sent, but the backs are all blank, so perhaps they just served as