Ellie Acker's c. 1840s Watercolor Map of the Southern United States Sambura fertility doll plus Dorothy-like painted red slippers

plus Dorothy-like painted red slippers

Unknown maker

poetry-writing and much much more

sent from a Delmer Morris to a Miss Opal Wright I'd guess about 120 years ago

all pulling all the way out easily

Ellie Acker's c. 1840s Watercolor Map of the Southern United States Sambura fertility doll plus Dorothy-like painted red slippersYou know I love a hand drawn map, even more so a watercolored one, and I love how the color on this one, depicting "the Southern states" nearly obscures its details, such that, if one didn't know better, it might be read as pure abstraction. Of course the outlines give it away instant recognizability that speaks to it as being a much a symbol icon as map. The inclusion of Arkansas (admitted to the Union on June 15, 1836, as the 25th state) date the