White cotton embroidered edging; Used for the trimming of a petticoat worn by Miss Mary Copeland; 1858, Southern Ohio; From Mrs. Mary Copeland Colley; San Francisco, CA 1895; (Note: “(This was about the first machine-made embroidery to appear in the shops and the hand-embroidery was gladly abandoned)” )
Series Scope and Content
This series consists of fabric, ribbon and decorative fringe textile samples owned and received by Olive Percival. It also includes newspaper advertisements showing the pricing of textiles at the time of printing, among other topics. Included are (3) hand-stitched sachets filled with cloves and still fragrant, and misc. identification tags in O.P.’s writing, as well as some miscellaneous correspondence regarding valentines and tags, both in O.P.’s hand and type written, used for an exhibit. A hand decorated box is also included.
The series is arranged chronologically first with those samples that Olive herself described and placed on a display board. Those samples include the type-written sheet made by Olive. They are in boxes 55-58. The next set of samples came with no O.P. description but did have some notation of age and/or provenance, and those are described by the creator of the finding aid and arranged chronologically in box 59 (any errors are the fault of the modern day describer). Finally, there are those samples (Box 60) with no notation of any kind. Again, any errors in descriptive details are the fault of the one creating the finding aid.
Dates
- Creation: 1800-1939
Creator
- From the Collection: Percival, Olive (Collector, Person)
Language of materials
Languages represented in the collection: English.
Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the File: 50 items.
Repository Details
Part of the 02 - Ella Strong Denison Library Repository