1492-1881, A Poetic History of America on a Ledger Page, with Doodles picture stand and at far right a

and at far right a couple at work

which has deteriorated

I believe it is his son

as is the lid on the very top

photographic conventions doesn't tell me for sure whether this muscular bare-chested young man was a boxer

1492-1881, A Poetic History of America on a Ledger Page, with Doodles picture stand and at far right aThis page was salvaged from an old ledger in an overall state of disrepair and I think is really quite a poignant thing, making a sort of poetry of selected moments in American history as it distills them into a list of sorts, starting with 1776, then jumping back to 1492, then extending to 1881, which I believe is about when it was written. Year 1794 was trouble with an insurrection. Year 1812 saw a war with her once mother country. 1861 saw a bitter