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1835-1840
GUSN-2446
A wooden oval band box covered with block printed wallpaper of pink and white flowers with green leaves on a blue ground. Lined with scrap paper, some with arithmetic exercises in ink, and newspaper scrap dated Jan.8, 1839. The inner bottom of the box is also filled with mathematic figures.
bandboxes (containers)
bentwood
pine (wood)
spruce (wood)
wallpapers
pine (wood)
Wallpaper
Pine
Spruce
Bentwood
Bandbox
An inscription in ink on the underside of the lid is: M.L. Goodrow. In ink and pencil on notes in the box reads: over 130 yrs old/Home made/Loaned by/Minnie Goodrow. (In NFL's hand) newspapers/Concord/Keene/West Winchester/1839.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.470 A,B
Attributed to Davis, Hannah (Maker)
Jaffrey, NH, USA
3 1/8 x 8 1/8 x 5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.470A
New Hampshire (United States)
Probably
Title Doll Accession Number 1991.471
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