[on sketch] 'Europe uniting Asia and America / She extends to them Commerce and Peace / The wheels indicate the means, viz, the rail road' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'America youthful / attired in the costume / of the Mexicans stands / on the right of Europe / the position that / continent has with / respect to Europe / others the other two' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Asia more matronly / attired in more ample / garments stands on / the left of Europe' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Europe younger than / Asia wears the mural / crown surmounted by / a dome and a cross as / this division of the earth / entirely Xtian' (pencil note)
Various designs featuring female figures pouring oil into a lamp [left and right middle], profile of head of Egyptian(?) woman [right bottom] and dado(?) pattern [right top]:
pencil drawings and sketches on tracing paper mounted on paper
loose
26.4 x 23.1 cm
[on right top sketch] 'red lines / green orn' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'Red lines / thick green lines on' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'yellow ground' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'Red lines / yellow ground' (pencil note)
[on right middle drawing] 'TREASURY' (pencil note)
[on right middle drawing] 'LIFE / ASSURANCE' (pencil note)