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Box 56

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Contains 54 Results:

Brown and white cotton calico textile; Used for a 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

Red, black, and cream colored cotton calico textile; Used for a child’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

Yellow and various colored cotton calico textile; Used for a child’s dress worn by Anne E.W. Frazer; 1850, VA; From Wilbur Macey Stone, Esq.; East Orange, New Jersey

 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 colored cotton calico textile; Used for an elderly woman’s 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 and white cotton calico textile ; Used for a dress; from an Album Quilt made for Miss Mary Jane Hunt when leaving for The West; 1850, New England; 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

Multi colored cotton print textile; Used for a dress; 1850, VA; From Wilbur Macey Stone, Esq.; East Orange, New Jersey

 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 gingham textile; Used for a child’s dress worn by Anne E.W. Frazer; 1850; From Wilbur Macey Stone, Esq.; East Orange, New Jersey

 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

Red and black wool printed flannel textile; Used for a table cover “(when Parlors had Center-Tables)”; 1850; From Louise Tyrell Fogle; Indiana

 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

Indigo blue and white colored cotton calico textile; Used for a quilt; 1850; From Mrs. Harrison Scott; San Francisco, CA 1895; (Note: “The Quilt was pieced by Eliza Lounsberry Scott on shipboard, via Panama, from Ohio to Grass Valley, California.”)

 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

Hunter green and white colored calico textile ; Used for a child’s dress worn by Anne E.W. Frazer; 1850, VA; From Wilbur Macey Stone, Esq.; East Orange, New Jersey

 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