Scarce c. 1860s "Transparent Slate" with Eleven Engravings for Tracing handmade scrapbook This of course is made

This of course is made all the better by the alligatoring of the black paint

Of course I like the old creamy white paint

It only lasted 2 years

I haven't been able to definitely place the Jessie Graham Smith who did these

this one of a Master Samuel Brown

Scarce c. 1860s "Transparent Slate" with Eleven Engravings for Tracing handmade scrapbook This of course is madeThis is a scarce one an early "transparent slate," c. 1860s, used as a drawing teaching tool. (The man pictured is Charles Fremont, Senator from California, first Republican candidate for president in 1856, and best known as "the Pathfinder" for expeditions to open the West to settlers.) As per the instructions on the back of the frame, one was meant to place one of the included engravings in the frame, use a "fine pointed black lead pencil" to trace