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An oval pasteboard band box and lid covered with a block printed floral wallpaper of pink flowers with green leaves on a light blue ground.
bandboxes (containers)
accessories
pasteboard (paper)
wallpapers
Box, Accessory
Bandbox
Bandbox
Boxes like this one were used by both men and women to store a range of personal goods. Indeed girls moving from rural homes to work in the mills may well have carried their belongings in a box like this one, secured in a cotton bag. Often called bandboxes, the term appears in New England as early as 1636.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.472
Unknown
5 x 8 3/4 x 7 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.472AB
Title Bonnet Accession Number 1991.473
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