Box 56
Container
Contains 54 Results:
Cream colored ground: all-over design of formless flowers or berries, with shadows in fawn-color, of green and crimson; Fancy twill; Used by a member of the Bruce Family; 1830’s, Auburn, New York
Item — Box: 56
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
Tobacco brown brocaded silk textile; Used for a dress worn by Sarah Foote Sherrill; 1830’s, Lee, MA; From Cousin Julia Foss of Sherbrooke, P.Q.; 1917; (Note: “ Sarah Foote Sherrill dau. of Sarah Percival Foote & Capt. Alvan Foote, of Lee; cousin of my Grandfather Percival; she was a well-known educator and an associate of Mary Lyon in the founding of Mount Holyoke Seminary.”)
Item — Box: 56
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 cotton copper-plate chintz textile; Used for bed hangings; 1830’s, Guilford, CT; From Florence Gardiner Moore; 1917
Item — Box: 56
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 linen home-spun and home-woven textile; Used for household purposes, sheets, etc. by Florence Moore’s grandmother Eliza Jane Hall; 1840; From Miss Florence Moore; Los Angeles
Item — Box: 56
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
Brown, white and red colored cotton calico textile; Used for a dress; 1850; From an Album Quilt made for Miss Mary Jane Hunt
Item — Box: 56
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 purple colored cotton calico textile; Used for an elderly woman’s dress; 1850, New England; From an Album Quilt made for Miss Mary Jane Hunt when leaving New England for the West; Los Angeles, CA; 1893
Item — Box: 56
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
Chocolate and white cotton calico textile; Used for an elderly woman’s dress; 1850, New England; From an Album Quilt
Item — Box: 56
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
Madder brown colored cotton calico textile; Used for a dress; 1850, New England; From an Album Quilt washed many times
Item — Box: 56
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
Madder brown colored cotton calico textile; Used for a dress; 1850, New England; From an Album Quilt washed many times
Item — Box: 56
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
Madder brown cotton calico textile; Used for an elderly woman’s dress; 1850, New England; From an Album Quilt
Item — Box: 56
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