Mid 19th C. Watercolor Portrait of Catherine Leida Hibbard, Richmond, Indiana in Wonderful Period Frame charming postcard This terrific old chalkboard is

This terrific old chalkboard is too large to have been a student's school slate

19th century New England/Maine Native American I believe

but here just a very sweet looking puppy functioning as a very handy handle

No tears or threadbareness to the silk on the exterior

and the wooden palette looks never to have been used

Mid 19th C. Watercolor Portrait of Catherine Leida Hibbard, Richmond, Indiana in Wonderful Period Frame charming postcard This terrific old chalkboard isA difficult one to shoot due to glare from the glass, but a lovely watercolor portrait of a lovely woman I think, who is identified in a handwritten note on the back of the frame as Catherine Leida Hibbard of Richmond, Indiana, 1827 1868 and between her kind face, the elaborate frame (encircling her in gold and purple velvet) and the note on the back I have to believe this Catherine was very well loved! I'd guess she was in her early 20s or so when