Fifty Social Evenings by Annie E. Smiley - First Edition, 1894 for the collection with just a tiny bit

with just a tiny bit of loss of white paint in a couple of spots that just adds to its charm

including a few tiny chips of clay stuck to its surface and glazed over

but it was not until I began photographing him that I realized his legs

and the box sits on round brass or bronze feet

narrowing at the top to a small and tightly fitting lid that reminds me of a little hat perched atop a large head

Fifty Social Evenings by Annie E. Smiley - First Edition, 1894 for the collection with just a tiny bitSo much fun! Published by the Central Office of the Epworth League (a Methodist young adult association formed in Cleveland in 1889) Fifty Social Evenings was written to help the league's department of social work in their efforts "to make league socials bright, entertaining and instructive." Happily, the fifty games and themes detailed possess a wonderful weirdness and specificity that makes for great reading and imagining, if not actual execution.