From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger textile structurally very sound and sturdy

structurally very sound and sturdy

and a pronounced vertical warp visible on the exterior

With a great silhouette

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 structurally very sound and sturdyThere 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)