George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations cutout duck but painted black and if

but painted black and if this bird is sitting night watch

visible against the dark blue of her dress

worn by both men and woman in the 18th and early 19th century

It's a curious one

George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations cutout duck but painted black and ifOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, each special in its own way. This small one begins with a list of the causes of the American Revolution, followed by a few lists of exports and imports, then latitudes and longitudes of major U. S. cities. Then a series of dense pages of math calculations, evolving into what feel to me almost like pure drawings, with a sort of cobweb of lines bracketing one problem from the next.