Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples plates with Guignol chararcters though it certainly speaks poignantly

though it certainly speaks poignantly to existential themes and persecution more broadly

All diamonds are here

Filled with a big bloom or branch or two

1918--I'd guess a class assignment from an advertising design class

Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples plates with Guignol chararcters though it certainly speaks poignantlyThis herbarium is undated, but I know the portfolio itself, designed by C. S. Jackson and published by Rumford Supply Co., South Weymouth MA, has a 1906 copyright, so would think this dates to the first quarter of the 20th c. or so. On the inside cover Agnes Gilbert lists the 16 samples she carefully preserved and detailed for her Botany II course, which are all still enclosed, each on the right side of a paper folio, with details about the specimen