trained under Academic history painters Fernand Cormon and Jean Paul Laurens and exhibited at the salon of French artists
which appears to me to be birds eye walnut veneer with marquetry detail around the edge
The Grace Borgenicht Gallery opened on 57th Street in May 1951
from her great red hat with white and blue stripes
though it's not very heavy and a nail through the top hole would work just fine
Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples vintage slides trained under Academic history paintersThis herbarium is undated, but I know the portfolio itself, designed by C. S. Jackson and published by Rumford Supply Co., South Weymouth MA, has a 1906 copyright, so would think this dates to the first quarter of the 20th c. or so. On the inside cover Agnes Gilbert lists the 16 samples she carefully preserved and detailed for her Botany II course, which are all still enclosed, each on the right side of a paper folio, with details about the specimen