How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book
An 1887 handicraft and amusements manual by sisters Lina and Adelia B. Beard, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York for girls making things at home. Line drawings show stitches, folded paper, blank sewn notebooks, cut gloves, and hands at work, in clear outline with dashed guides and hatched shading—usable as diagram vocabulary, craft spot illustrations, and gesture studies.
