Helen Dayton's 1899 Notebook with School Work, Paper Dolls, Color Drawings, etc. wooden shoe box with a little edge wear

with a little edge wear at lower right

with the reverse side of the blocks painted black

" "Honest Use of Materials" and "Changes in Modes of Living"

They are hand numbered in pencil at top center (this one is 10

but a pretty terrific small tin litho soldier he is

Helen Dayton's 1899 Notebook with School Work, Paper Dolls, Color Drawings, etc. wooden shoe box with a little edge wearI love this 1899 school notebook kept by a Helen Dayton of Watertown, CT, when she was 8 years old or so for many many reasons; really, every page (121 of them!) delivers delights large or small. Most exciting are several pages devoted entirely to colored pencil drawings, in which triangles and boxes and moons and kites and apples and blocks and houses and ladders commingle, sometimes with nothing more than the handwritten label distinguishing one