Living in Fear and Dread...Strange and Timely Naive Measles Drawing with Poem victorian wooden blocks lending a sense of atmosphere

lending a sense of atmosphere

which provided care to residents

signed and dated at lower right

so perhaps it was somehow glued/adhered flush to a mount

And then this shell

Living in Fear and Dread...Strange and Timely Naive Measles Drawing with Poem victorian wooden blocks lending a sense of atmosphereSuch a strange one! And, sadly, quite a timely one given the recent return of the measles to our lives fear and dread indeed. Aside from that horror, I really love everything about this: what a face, and what a spatter of pink pocks, and table of remedies in front of them too, and then this awkward poem, in excellent all caps hand lettering (with pencil drawn lines as guides), progressing from the relief of speckles that are freckles to the the