Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook Ballantine beer cans and all the way up

and all the way up from his boot to the grip of the ink pen

carved whimsy would make a great

Plenty of bubbles in the bottle glass

Mid to late 19th century I am pretty sure

Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook Ballantine beer cans and all the way upI find stenography shorthand fascinating, though I can't decipher a single symbol! Pretty much a lost form at this point, shorthand was is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that was developed as a means of increasing speed and brevity in writing, especially used in taking dictation. Of course technology has largely obliterated the need for it, and the capacity to decipher it which makes these pages of intensive mark making now like floating