Helen Dayton's 1899 Notebook with School Work, Paper Dolls, Color Drawings, etc. wooden shoe box They are hand numbered in

They are hand numbered in pencil at top center (this one is 10

with a satisfying scale and weight--a pleasure to use but also nice just sitting on the shelf

" "Honest Use of Materials" and "Changes in Modes of Living"

which would make a perfect one for a great little drawing or old photo

(I have included two other examples in photos

Helen Dayton's 1899 Notebook with School Work, Paper Dolls, Color Drawings, etc. wooden shoe box They are hand numbered inI love this 1899 school notebook kept by a Helen Dayton of Watertown, CT, when she was 8 years old or so for many many reasons; really, every page (121 of them!) delivers delights large or small. Most exciting are several pages devoted entirely to colored pencil drawings, in which triangles and boxes and moons and kites and apples and blocks and houses and ladders commingle, sometimes with nothing more than the handwritten label distinguishing one