Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover sculptural chain perhaps sitting in an old

perhaps sitting in an old wooden bowl on the counter filled sea salt

or for someone like me who has spent more than her fair share of time in the dentist’s chair

Trenton New Jersey

dating from sometime between the 1940s and 60s

Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover sculptural chain perhaps sitting in an oldEmily Ackerley's 1870 sketchbook has seen better days what remains is the cover and 11 pages of drawings, filled on both front and back but I think some of these are pretty great (and she definitely thought so too, signing most every one, often a few times on a page.) I know from a couple of additional drawings I pulled from this is that Ackerley lived in Sing Sing, New York, the village on the Hudson which changed its name to Ossining in 1901 to