Jim Crow's language lessons and other stories of birds and animals
A juvenile animal story collection by Julia Darrow Cowles, published in New York by Crowell in 1903, with pictures of birds and small animals for young readers. The four sampled plates are black-and-white line and wash drawings: birds in snow on a bare branch, a mouse by a snowy hole, a crow over a sack beside a log building, and a decorative border of cats, a dog, and a crow in leafy scrollwork. A designer could draw on the winter wash scenes for tonal snow effects and on the scrollwork border for framing ideas.
