1920s ORIGINAL SKETCHBOOK, HAM RADIO OPERATIONS BOOK AND CHARMING CATCH-ALL BOOK OF A DELIGHTFUL MILWAUKEE 8 YEAR OLD

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On offer is an original, simply charming 'vade mecum' being a journal, sketchbook and notebook of a young boy, James Petran, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This boy, using an 11 x 9 in ch oblong multicolored paged book that was once a salesman's sample book, writes and draws over top the pen and ink titles and sizes, starts the book around the age eight and through to eleven or twelve creates a treasure of 1920s Americana with his drawings of race cars, trains, horses, portraits of friends and scenes of whimsy and everyday life; mention of a secret boys club; he is a HAM radio enthusiast and has handwritten instruction to build and operate a short wave radio. He also creates or transcribes a football game played by Yale vs. Harvard. The vast majority of pages have content and many times both sides of the paper of the 170 hand-numbered pages in all. Collectors and historians will be hard pressed to find a more charming manuscript relic of an early 20th Century/post World War I boy's life. This is a heck of a young fellow. Overall VG.; 9 X 11 OBLONG; HAND DRAWN, NAIVE ART, SKETCHBOOK, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, WI, CHILDREN STUDIES, YOUTH STUDIES, VADE MECUM, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, DIARY, JOURNAL, LOG, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, DIARIES, JOURNALS, LOGS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, AMERICANA, antiquité, contrat, vélin, document, manuscrit, papier Antike, Brief, Pergament, Dokument, Manuskript, Papier oggetto d'antiquariato, atto, velina, documento, manoscritto, carta antigüedad, hecho, vitela, documento, manuscrito, Papel, ; Signed by Autograph Show more