From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger textile (The relics themselves appear most

(The relics themselves appear most likely to be the small bits of cloth under the handwritten labels bearing their names

This ballerina for me is all about attitude--how poised and proud and I'd say really quite queenly she seems

with what looks to me like an American flag draped over one shoulder and down her front

Old creamy white/beige paint

Image size: 4 1/2 x 5 1/2

From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger textile (The relics themselves appear mostThere are few things that give me as much pleasure as opening a notebook that I can tell from the paper cover has about 200 years on it in this case the cover a pretty soft blue, and the notebook kept by a William Gimler, spanning the period 1834 to 1852. Gimler was clearly a farmer and here tracks, sporadically it seems, bushels of oats and wheat and corn sold, as well as pork butchered, including noting the weight of Joseph Figley's hog (163 pounds)