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Oblong, pasteboard bandbox (A) or bonnet box with lid (B) covered in Landscape figure paper. Scene depicts a woman on her knees milking a goat and a boy feeding a sheep. They are framed by trees and stripes of pindots, stylized vines, overlapping circles and diaper pattern. On the lid is a scene of a cottage on the water. Printed in three browns and white on a taupe ground.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
Bandbox
602
1936.532
Unknown
United States
8 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 7 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. G. C. Beach
1936.532AB
1815-1820 (1835 note inside and newspaper on bottom)
United States
Bandbox
Taupe
Original
Paper
sheep
goat
boy
woman
cottage
trees
Landscape figure
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