George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations cutout duck who created a diverse body

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

but this is specifically a Japanese crane

7" long x 3 13/16" wide x 7/18" thick

worn by both men and woman in the 18th and early 19th century

visible against the dark blue of her dress

George Abbott's Small 1872 C. Notebook with A Bit of American History and Lots of Calculations cutout duck who created a diverse bodyOne 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.