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Box 55,

 File — Box: 55
Identifier: Series 12:
Series Scope and Content From the Series: 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...
Dates: 1800-1939

Letter from “Wilbur” on personal stationary printed with “143 North Arlington Avenue East Orange, New Jersey”, referring to booksellers and “scraps” of what the is presumed to be textiles sent to Olive by Wilbur Macey Stone, Esq.

 Item — Box: 55, Folder: 1
Identifier: Series 12:
Series Scope and Content From the Series: 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...
Dates: 1800-1939

Chinese red colored linsey-woolsey textile; Used for the lining of a wallet; 1755, Guilford, CT; From Miss Florence Moore; Los Angeles, CA

 Item — Box: 55
Identifier: Series 12:
Series Scope and Content From the Series: 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...
Dates: 1800-1939

Pink and white cotton Indian “Hum-Hum” (toile) textile; Used for bed curtains by the family of Alvin Foote, East India merchant of Salem, MA; 18th Century, MA; From Miss Florence Moore; Los Angeles

 Item — Box: 55
Identifier: Series 12:
Series Scope and Content From the Series: 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...
Dates: 1800-1939

Pink and white colored cotton India Hum-Hum; Used for bed curtains by the family of Alvin Foote (East Indian Merchant); 18th Century, Salem MA From Miss Helen R. Norton Boston, MA

 Item — Box: 55
Identifier: Series 12:
Series Scope and Content From the Series: 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...
Dates: 1800-1939

White cotton lawn textile; Used for a christening robe; , 18th Century

 Item — Box: 55
Identifier: Series 12:
Series Scope and Content From the Series: 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...
Dates: 18th Century

Old Gold and cream-colored silk brocade textile; Used for the lining of a sedan chair by Mess Culberson’s Family in England; 18th Century; From Miss M.E. B. Culberson; Richmond, Indiana; 1900 (Note: “She wrote me she had once had yards and yards of this Brocade-“)

 Item — Box: 55
Identifier: Series 12:
Series Scope and Content From the Series: 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...
Dates: 1800-1939

Stone colored silk satin textile; Used for a dress worn by Martha Washington, wife of George Washington; 18th C.; From Mrs. J.H. Lippincott; Los Angeles, CA (Note:” From the sleeve of a gown that was pieced into a quilt by a Lady of the Lippincott Family of Philadelphia”)

 Item — Box: 55
Identifier: Series 12:
Series Scope and Content From the Series: 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...
Dates: 1800-1939

Multicolored with gold thread silk brocade textile; Used for church vestments; 18th Century; From Mexico City, MX 1899

 Item — Box: 55
Identifier: Series 12:
Series Scope and Content From the Series: 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...
Dates: 1800-1939

Multi-colored cotton print textile; Used for a dress worn by Sally Warner (b. 1780) 1800; From her descendant (“who called with Mrs. Richard Ne[?]vey”); Pasadena, CA; 1917

 Item — Box: 55
Identifier: Series 12:
Series Scope and Content From the Series: 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...
Dates: 1800-1939