It's not easy being green
Apr. 12th, 2012 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Meet my new friend:

Well, the frog is a new friend, but so is little Jesse - a baby in Arkansas in the late 1840s, whose mother wrote an incredibly detailed daily account of his first three years. Unlike poor Doris from my UCLA baby books, Jesse lived to a ripe old age, despite a sickly childhood.
Oh, and the frog. If you aren't familiar with archival work - when you are working with old books you use a foam cradle (to keep the binding supported and not lying flat) and a "frog" (a cloth weight) to keep the pages down while you read or take pictures. This archives has a sense of humor :)
Well, the frog is a new friend, but so is little Jesse - a baby in Arkansas in the late 1840s, whose mother wrote an incredibly detailed daily account of his first three years. Unlike poor Doris from my UCLA baby books, Jesse lived to a ripe old age, despite a sickly childhood.
Oh, and the frog. If you aren't familiar with archival work - when you are working with old books you use a foam cradle (to keep the binding supported and not lying flat) and a "frog" (a cloth weight) to keep the pages down while you read or take pictures. This archives has a sense of humor :)
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Date: 2012-04-12 02:30 pm (UTC)and the frog is excellent!
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Date: 2012-04-12 02:37 pm (UTC)"Jesse is very puny this morning. I gave him a portion of tea made from the Pink-root. I had great difficulty in getting him to swallow it. I do not know whether it is harder for Jesse to take medicine than the majority of children, but to me, it is an herculean task to get him to take the simplest prescription – all of my physical strength is brought into requisition."
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Date: 2012-04-13 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-12 08:17 pm (UTC)i have a frog just like that one!
:)