John C. Mendall's 19th C. School Notebook Filled with All Sorts of Stuff! man with animals happy perched most anywhere or

happy perched most anywhere or carried in a pocket as a good luck charm

but occasionally the graphics on something will just jump out and call to me--and really

I'll make good Fairbank Lard

perhaps it held his preparatory notes and research for it

established in the 1970s by Todd Piker

John C. Mendall's 19th C. School Notebook Filled with All Sorts of Stuff! man with animals happy perched most anywhere orThe speckled blue paper cover of this notebook drew me to it, but it's the bird drawing on the inside of the front cover that sold me, with the words "Bird of the air No. 2" trailing down. (My first photo is a composite of cover and first inside page.) Having now spent a little time with it's pages, I've determine that the John C. Mendell who kept it was a kindred spirit a terrible note taker it looks to me, instead filling the pages with names and