June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA wooden watch stand I rather like that the

I rather like that the give the whole think the feel of a rocket about to launch into the heavens

no matter at all

which I think make for a certain kind of poetry

I've documented all of them here (and put my favorites first

June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA wooden watch stand I rather like that theWhile some of the graphite drawings in it show some smudging and softening no great surprise, being 170 or so years old this, I think, is quite a marvelous thing, both as a document of pre Civil War, 2nd Great Awakening era New England, and for the drawings themselves. It appears to have been the notebook of a June Chase of Boston, MA, who I believe was a member of the Chase family of New England, descending from early American settlers Aquila Chase