ARKANSAS! Lovely Hand-drawn Ink and Watercolor Map by William Donaldson, St. Louis Central High, 1857 Inuit craft typically intended as love tokens

typically intended as love tokens to be delivered upon return

because they are such lovely and useful things

Earlyish 20th century I would guess

which I believe would have been done by its owner/s: CIR on the from and DIA on the back

and they still feel all about possibility to me

ARKANSAS! Lovely Hand-drawn Ink and Watercolor Map by William Donaldson, St. Louis Central High, 1857 Inuit craft typically intended as love tokensI've got a special love for hand drawn maps of many sorts (even more so now, as paper maps have become a relic of the pre digital pre GPS age), and this is a lovely one, red and black ink and watercolor. A fairly early one as far as American schoolwork maps go, and pretty rare that I see one devoted to a single state. (If only I had for each of the 31 states that existed in 1857, when William Donaldson drew and signed this!) I do have Ohio, though,