Three Old Kid Drawn Pencil and Crayon Airplanes sweetgrass and splint ash basket then rendered under a magnifying

then rendered under a magnifying glass

while  teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division

dating  to the Civil War era

that shape of which is just the right amount of off-kilter

I think it was likely part of a chain/train

Three Old Kid Drawn Pencil and Crayon Airplanes sweetgrass and splint ash basket then rendered under a magnifyingThree sweet old crayon drawn airplanes, from a larger set of plane drawings by one boy with an airplane obsession, done in the 1930s I believe. The large one is of the LUSAC 11, an early American two seat fighter aircraft of French design, commissioned and built in the United States during World War I. I especially love the little flyer in profile on the one I've got turned on its side. Large one in this group measures 11 1 4" x 6 1 2". Smallest 3 1