Box 60
Container
Contains 1 Result:
(3) Hand-stitched sachets which, by smell, seem to contain cloves. The first is a 3” x 3” tawny mustard colored square with straight stitching around the edges on the face of the square. The second is 2.75” x 1.75” oblong with an olive green, red and bluish pattern. The third is a 1.5” x 1.25” oblong in black cloth.
Item — Box: 60, row-section: 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
Found in:
02 - Ella Strong Denison Library
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Olive Percival collection
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Textiles,
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Box 60,
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Blue paper box decorated with silver sticker stars and cut outs of construction paper in the shapes of small potted topiaries or cypress trees and a bowl (printed patterned paper) with hued circles, possibly meant to resemble oranges. Writing on upper right hand corner of box states the box contains “Samples of cloth (old) Indiana (USA)”