Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s notebooks which to my eye amplifies

which to my eye amplifies an interesting tension between image

Light wear to the edges of paper but no foxing and only very minor stains here and there

Each 2 1/2" long x 5/8" wide x 1/8" deep

and I found it in Hudson

Victorian era I believe

Expansive Set of Handmade Ink and Watercolor Paper Dolls and Costumes, Early 1900s notebooks which to my eye amplifiesQuite a set! All made by the same young person, it appears hand drawn, ink and watercolor on light weight card, cut out by hand, most of the figures with tabs added on reverse for standing them up. And quite a cast of characters mother and father, a bunch of daughters and a son, two women who might be aunts or nannies or teachers , and one older, with patches on her apron, I take for a maid. And then a couple of smaller scale, cartoonish looking boys,