June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA british cartoon showing what looks like mimeographed

showing what looks like mimeographed paper from a local newsletter of some sort

Very good used vintage condition

just minor surface wear here and there

with an interior opening of 1" across

June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA british cartoon showing what looks like mimeographedWhile some of the graphite drawings in it show some smudging and softening no great surprise, being 170 or so years old this, I think, is quite a marvelous thing, both as a document of pre Civil War, 2nd Great Awakening era New England, and for the drawings themselves. It appears to have been the notebook of a June Chase of Boston, MA, who I believe was a member of the Chase family of New England, descending from early American settlers Aquila Chase