The blocks are in great condition
and still in operation
and incised patterns at their centers
and hand-painted with wonderful all-over maze-like geometric patterns
or with these reinforced corners
Plant Samples - Beans, and Corn, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - Set 3 original illustrations The blocks are in greatI found together a total of eleven of these rppcs documenting the growth of beans, corn, peas and oats in various soils and combinations, and just love them as beautiful photographs, for their indexical nature, for the wonderful hand written labels on the planters, and for being, as far as I know, quite unusual. The fact that they were produced as postcards suggests they were made to be sent, but the backs are all blank, so perhaps they just served as