Box 55
Container
Contains 55 Results:
Blue and gold wool and silk textile; Used for a petticoat worn by Moll Pitcher, famous old fortune-teller of Lynn. Not Moll; Pitcher the Revolutionary Heroine; c. 1800, MA; From Cousin Mary Elizabeth Percival of Lynn; 1922
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
Old Gold and unbleached silk and cotton textile; Used for a petticoat worn by Moll Pitcher, famous old fortune-teller of Lynn. Not Moll; Pitcher the Revolutionary Heroine; c.1800, MA; From Cousin Mary Elizabeth Percival of Lynn; 1922
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
Old red and multi-colored cotton glazed chintz; Used for hangings; Early 19th Century, Connecticut; 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
“Scattered bunches of roses with leaves and Forget-me-nots – powdering of small Posies between; Color effect, red with black background raw silk textile; Used for a wedding outfit worn by Miss Harriet Davis Coleman; 1801, Nantucket, MA; From her great-granddaughter Mrs. Abby Cromwell Hirshfeld; 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
Multi-colored cotton glazed chintz textile; Used for hangings; 1810; From Adelaide Blanchard; Alfred, NY
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
Blue and white cotton glazed chintz textile; Used for bed curtains on the bed of Eliza Lounsberry; 1810, Vermont; From Eliza Lounsberry Scott; San Francisco, CA 1895; (Note: “She was very fond of this chintz and when she gave this to me, said that as a child in bed she remembered watching the flying squirrels and the birds in the nest and that they seemed so Real!”)
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
Fawn, madder-red and white-colored copper-plate chintz textile; Used for curtains by Mrs. Worth’s grandmother c.1810; From Mrs. Clara Brown Brentlinger; Denver, CO
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
Dark blue colored cotton calico with sprigs of old blue; Used for a dress and then served in a patchwork quilt c. 1810; From Mrs. Clara Brown Brentlinger; Denver, CO
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
Unbleached linen bed ticking textile; Used for a straw bedtick; c. 1810; From Mrs. W.W. Byam; Given me by Mrs. Jane Ash Baird; Los Angeles, CA; September 1925; (Note: “Made by Mrs. Joseph Ash Blue Ridge Mountains, N.C. Taken by Reuben Ash to Iowa Territory, in 1842 In constant used for about fifty years”)
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
Lilac cotton English muslin textile; Used for a dress worn by three successive generations of daughter of the Williams Family; 1814, Paris, KY; From Harriet Hutchcraft Hill, granddaughter of “Old Cerro Gordo Williams”; (Note: “She was wearing this as a petticoat until remonstrated with O.P., Los Angeles, CA 1898- As she ripped off a flounce, she said enthusiastically: My great-uncle brought this from England, in the year 1814, in an old sailing ship!”)
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