George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations Leon Hovsepian abstract painting Color is best on images

Color is best on images of the obelisks laying on their sides

but not another like this older one by an unknown maker

(1865-1957) and Lilla B

Published in 1870 by Prang

18 3/4" l x 8 3/16" t

George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations Leon Hovsepian abstract painting Color is best on imagesOne 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.