Olney's Modern Geography, 1835, With Excellent Endpaper Squirrel Drawing! American red cross the old dog Schepp following

the old dog Schepp following as chief mourner

clearly it shows a bit of loss along the bottom

About as a visceral as a vase could be

perhaps this was his life's masterpiece

it came from a sketchbook of her drawings from that time--when she was teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division

Olney's Modern Geography, 1835, With Excellent Endpaper Squirrel Drawing! American red cross the old dog Schepp followingIt is interesting to revisit world geography from an 1835 American perspective, but I must say this one for me is really all about the squirrel drawing on the inside of the front cover! Executed in graphite, it is definitely of the period. There is also a terrific nine quadrant printed chart of directions with hands pointing every way a few pages in. And then it is all about America. (I think there was another chunk to this book, lost at the back;