Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 remedy recipes With glass

With glass

and it could easily be removed (maybe better by exacto-ing than trying to pull the masking tape off )

dramatic peachy-pink satin lining

which I believe are Victorian mourning buttons

Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 remedy recipes With glassA tender and heartfelt thing if I ever did see one. Surely it is Nellie Leora, mother to Gardner (I take that as a G), whose photograph is framed with wreath of braided threads at the center of chair back captured seated in a Victorian wicker chair, with book open in her hands, and very intense gaze! The rest of the chair seems all about Gardner, who embroidered the date on one side, 1914; her own age on the other, 24; and her name front and center,