Honor to Whom Honor is Due, Bertha Hurd's 1892 Penmanship Notebook, Full park bench portrait but this I believe the

but this I believe the earliest and my favorite--for the "forget me not" and the blue and white twisted string border

executed in red

I have found a few examples of Native American baskets woven of horse hair (Tohono O'odham and Koasati ((Couchatta)) examples specifically) but the braided construction of this one is of a different sort

using clothes pins

2 7/8" x 2 3/8" and in good condition

Honor to Whom Honor is Due, Bertha Hurd's 1892 Penmanship Notebook, Full park bench portrait but this I believe theYou know I can't resist an old penmanship practice notebook, each its own thing and interesting for different reasons, including for how the sentences written over and over and over again embody the values of the times in this which they were completed, and what was being drilled into the brains of students at that time. This one, dated 1892, is I believe the first I've seen that actually included the sentence "Children should be seen and not heard."