Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples spencerian hair still tousled

hair still tousled

and they are structurally super sound and stand up very straight

and the pleasure of mixing and matching the pieces

Decimals & Fractions

I think they make really terrific small objects for display--with a handy loop for hanging overhead

Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples spencerian hair still tousledThis 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