Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples spencerian Decimals & Fractions

Decimals & Fractions

It measures 11" long x 3 7/8" wide x 3/4" deep

hair still tousled

and find them  poignant

The backs of these terrific old tramp art frames--late 19th or early 20th century I believe--are almost as great as their fronts

Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples spencerian Decimals & FractionsThis herbarium is undated, but I know the portfolio itself, designed by C. S. Jackson and published by Rumford Supply Co., South Weymouth MA, has a 1906 copyright, so would think this dates to the first quarter of the 20th c. or so. On the inside cover Agnes Gilbert lists the 16 samples she carefully preserved and detailed for her Botany II course, which are all still enclosed, each on the right side of a paper folio, with details about the specimen