Small handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the 1832-1834 "Farming Memoranda" of her great-grandfather Elisha Percival, Jr. (1781-1867) of Lenox, Massachusetts. The folder is made from a piece of wallpaper backed with a piece of thin cardboard. The wallpaper is roller-printed with stylized fruit trees and peacocks in the English Arts and Crafts style of designers Arthur Silver and C.F.A. Voysey. Roller-printed in green, yellow, red and blue on ungrounded paper.
folders (containers)
coverings and hangings for documents
cardboard
wallpapers
Arts and Crafts (movement)
folders (containers)
Folder, File
"Farming Memoranda / E. G. Jr. / 1832 1834" (Written by Olive Percival.)
"Farming Memoranda / 1832-1834 / Great-Grandfather / Elisha Percival, Jr - (1781-1867) / Lenox - / Massachusetts" (Written by Olive Percival.)
Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945
Percival, Elisha, Mr., Jr., 1781-1867
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)
Possibly Silver Studio (Manufacturer)
Los Angeles, California, United States; England
6 3/4 x 4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1193.13
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Lenox (Berkshire county, Massachusetts)
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Machine Printed
Handmade document folder
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Machine Made
Arts and Crafts
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