One of two final drawings by Elmer S. Hill of Haydenville MA, extracted from a notebook that was already coming apart when I found it, so I went ahead and divided it up. This one is dated 1888 at the base of the tree, and what a great tree I think it is, loaded up with little pencil-drawn ornaments on the lower half and blazing candles on top. I'm not especially big on holidays but hanging this one on the wall might me want to sing carols under it all year long!  

I have found a definitive record of Elmer Hill, born on 7 March 1874, in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States to David Warren Hill and Annie Pauline Goss, both from New England, and it seems in Erie only for a brief time as the rest of their lives were living in and around Northhampton, MA, including in Haydenville, which he notes on one page of the notebook, which has a date of 1887, so he was about 13 when he made these drawings.  Hill married, had two sons, and died on 29 December 1973, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 99!

Paper measures 8 1/16” x 6 5/8”; pencil and crayon/colored pencil on faintly lined paper. Paper has darkened a bit over time, is a bit brittle, and shows a few smudges, but is generally clean and in good condition. Blank reverse.