diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 628c04d..f813d90 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 - minimum Perl 5.10.1
 - add PGPLOT::set_debugging
+- move PDL::Graphics::State to this distro
 
 2.33 2024-09-17
 - fix ramp and rgb LUTs (and neg to be compatible) to always increase values (#16) - thanks @d-lamb
diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 2537de3..357d23b 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ lib/PDL/Graphics/LUT/tables/standard.fits
 lib/PDL/Graphics/PGPLOT.pm
 lib/PDL/Graphics/PGPLOT/Window.pm
 lib/PDL/Graphics/PGPLOTOptions.pm
+lib/PDL/Graphics/State.pm
 lib/PGPLOT.pm
 LICENSE
 Makefile.PL
diff --git a/lib/PDL/Graphics/State.pm b/lib/PDL/Graphics/State.pm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..84319d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/PDL/Graphics/State.pm
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+=head1 NAME
+
+State - A package to keep track of plotting commands
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+  use PDL::Graphics::State;
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This is a very simple, at present almost trivial, package to keep track
+of the current set of plotting commands.
+
+=head1 USAGE
+
+You create a new object by calling the C<new> operator
+
+  $state = PDL::Graphics::State->new();
+
+Then for each new command you call C<add> on this object so that for a
+call to C<line> of the form
+
+  line $x, $y, $opt;
+
+the call to C<add> would be like
+
+  $state->add(\&line, 'line', [$x, $y], $opt);
+
+which is stored internally as:
+
+  [\&line, 'line', [$x, $y], $opt]
+
+The state can later be extracted using C<get> which returns the state
+object which is an array of anonymous arrays like the one above where
+the first object is a reference to the function, the second an anomymous
+array of arguments to the function and finally an anonymous hash with
+options to the command.
+
+If you know the order in which you inserted commands they can be removed
+by calling C<remove> with the number in the stack. No further interaction
+is implemented except C<clear> which clears the stack and C<copy> which
+returns a "deep" copy of the state.
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Jarle Brinchmann (jarle@astro.ox.ac.uk) after some prodding by
+Karl Glazebrook.
+
+All rights reserved. There is no warranty. You are allowed
+to redistribute this software / documentation under certain
+conditions. For details, see the file COPYING in the PDL
+distribution. If this file is separated from the PDL distribution,
+the copyright notice should be included in the file.
+
+=cut
+
+package PDL::Graphics::State;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+#
+# This is a very simple package to deal with the graphics state.
+#
+
+sub new {
+  my $type = shift;
+
+  my $self = {
+	      'Commands' => [],
+	     };
+
+  bless $self, ref($type) || $type;
+  return $self;
+}
+
+
+sub DESTROY {
+  my $self = shift;
+  $self->clear();
+}
+
+sub add {
+  my $self = shift;
+  # The command is a reference to the subroutine, the data is an
+  # anonymous array containing the data passed to the routine and
+  # opt is the options hash PASSED TO THE ROUTINE..
+  my ($command, $command_name, $data, $opt) = @_;
+
+  # Compact and not user-friendly storage.
+  push @{$self->{Commands}}, [$command, $command_name, $data, $opt];
+
+#  return $#{$self->{Commands}}+1;
+}
+
+
+sub remove {
+  my $self = shift;
+  my $num = shift;
+
+  # Remove entry #1
+  splice @{$self->{Commands}}, $num, 1;
+}
+
+sub get {
+  my $self = shift;
+  return @{$self->{Commands}};
+}
+
+sub info {
+  my $self = shift;
+  print "The state has ".($#{$self->{Commands}}+1)." commands in the stack\n";
+}
+
+sub show {
+  my $self = shift;
+  my $count=0;
+  foreach my $arg (@{$self->{Commands}}) {
+    print "$count - Func=$$arg[1]\n";
+    $count++;
+  }
+
+}
+
+sub clear {
+  my $self = shift;
+  # Do I need to do more?
+  $self->{Commands}=[];
+}
+
+
+sub copy {
+  my $self = shift;
+  my $new = PDL::Graphics::State->new();
+  foreach my $arg (@{$self->{Commands}}) {
+    $new->add(@$arg);
+  }
+  return $new;
+}
+
+1;