George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations cutout duck Mounted to white paper with

Mounted to white paper with punch holes down the left: 8 1/2" x 11"

but this is specifically a Japanese crane

in the windowsill

who created a diverse body of work prior to his death in 1975

George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations cutout duck Mounted to white paper withOne 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.