The Ainslee stories
The Ainslee Stories is a children's storybook by Helen Campbell, published in 1868 in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Hurd and Houghton with the Riverside Press. Its wood-engraved pictures show domestic and rural scenes with children: a woman teaching a boy at a table, costumed children in pointed hats at a doorway, a child comforted in a woodland, and snowbound village houses. A designer might draw on their plain, tender figure groupings and their use of simple cottage and winter settings for storybook or heritage-style layouts.
