1492-1881, A Poetic History of America on a Ledger Page, with Doodles picture stand though my photos here do

though my photos here do no justice

and it would be useful now for stashing all sorts of things

and at far right a couple at work

in which letters are slanted and the words formed without lifting the pen from the page--and what a great word

And the "bones" card is the old maid of the deck as you cannot make a sandwich with a bone

1492-1881, A Poetic History of America on a Ledger Page, with Doodles picture stand though my photos here doThis 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