artifacts from past generations

Little Springtime took some embroidery with her to our family's Thanksgiving get-together, prompting my father to bring out a sampler his mother had made when she was in seventh grade, in 1920:

Here's the overall sampler:




Here's the first portion (surname blurred out)



And her examples of stitchery:







Then he showed us his father's engineering notebook, from 1914, when his father was sixteen. I was fascinated to see that mimeograph technology, which I remember being in use in my own childhood, was a...