Helen Dayton's 1899 Notebook with School Work, Paper Dolls, Color Drawings, etc. wooden shoe box with the reverse side of

with the reverse side of the blocks painted black

but a pretty terrific small tin litho soldier he is

Their work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada

with a satisfying scale and weight--a pleasure to use but also nice just sitting on the shelf

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

Helen Dayton's 1899 Notebook with School Work, Paper Dolls, Color Drawings, etc. wooden shoe box with the reverse side ofI 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