Old school from waaaay back

Among the many things I salvaged from my grandmother's old house (before turning it into a chicken coop) were lots of school textbooks from the '30s and '40s.

Here are some of my favorite color illustrations from the 1936 edition of "The Body and Health." The book credits the illustrators as Mildred Lyon Hetherington, Helen Bilger, Irene Dorcy and Grace G. Mitchell. As always, you can click to embiggen.

Post #3 - Buttons

When I was cleaning out the old house on my property, I found hundreds of vintage sewing buttons. Many buttons were found loose - some in boxes or drawers, some scattered on the floor. Others were removed from ruined clothing.

A number of these buttons date back to at least the 1930s and 1940s. They are made of glass, seashells, wood, bakelite, lucite, vegetable ivory, metal and more.

Today, I finally finished cleaning, sorting and photographing them. There were 379 that passed muster and will be posted on eBay this week.

This is about 1/4 of the lot I'm selling.