1910s Pocket Notebook with Portrait and Curious Mix! left leather tongue and ears

leather tongue and ears

To my eye a most beautiful thing

making it almost like a tube

along with a few remnants of some torn out pages and a few toward the end filled with some accounting

with some of the pencil drawings just loose and a fair amount of foxing on a number of them

1910s Pocket Notebook with Portrait and Curious Mix! left leather tongue and earsA curious little pocket notebook, which I love for its combination of contents the cutout photo portrait, with fraternity affiliation just below, and then pasted in lists of measures, recipes for making animal feed, fire alarm codes, and then, very carefully written on gridded paper, what I've figured out is a list of winning race horses. Methinks this young man was, most passionately, a betting man, even while studying agriculture at Hamilton