Box 59
Container
Contains 83 Results:
Box 59,
File — Box: 59
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
Ivory brocade textile (5) Note in O.P.’s hand: “ 17 March 1930~ Los Angeles; Abby Cromwell Hirschfeld (b. in Providence, R.I.) gave me this brocade, part of the 18th C. wedding gown of Mrs. Fenner, wife of Gov. James Fenner, of Providence ~governor from 1807 to 1811 and later. His great-granddaughter is Sarah Dexter Past Lindsey (of G[?] and, she and, Abby C. H. were school mates. Mrs. L seems to be selling all her heirlooms.” Additional Note in O.P.’s hand: “Fenner wife of Gov. of R.I.”
Item — Box: 59, 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
Ecru sheer textile; Note on accompanying board in O.P.’s hand: “Shroud?” [?] Note on fabric: “c. 1830”
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 2
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
Purple diamond pattern weave textile; Note: “purple- 1805-1840 , 1805 - 1840
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 3
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:
1805 - 1840
Ecru, brown, pink, cornflower blue print textile (may be of Asian design); Note in O.P.’s hand: “Eliza Chopin [?] Ward’s bedgown 1840-1850 ?] Isabel’s g[?]dmother b. Rochester m. Henry Augustus Ward d. [?]”
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 4
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
Black with purple figures; Note on accompanying board in O.P.’s hand: “Cousin I’s Grd[?] Eliza; Ch[?] Ward 1840-1850 Blk Purple fig”
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 5
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
Sage background with multicolored flowers textile; Note on accompanying board in O.P.’s hand: “1852 M P Garner Chellis”; Note on fabric in O.P.’s hand: “Mary 1852”; Note on scrap of paper in O.P.’s hand: “Mary Prather Garner”
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 6
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
Black and white striped woven textile; Note in O.P.’s hand: 1854- [illegible]
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 7
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
Ecru ribbon with penciled note on it; Note in O.P.’s hand which appears to be the same thing as is written on the ribbon itself: “Lizzi[?]….Presented to her by her sisiter-in-law Dorothy….Toledo, March 4 1854. (Probably very old in 1854)”
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 8
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
Rust and multicolored striped textile; Note: “Ella G. 1858”
Item — Box: 59, Folder: 9
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