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Trunk with detached lid. Trunk exterior covered with heavy green textile and decorated with similar black textile and tacts. The trunk has a drawer pull handle on the lid and a lock plate on front. The hinges are leather. The interior is lined with a decorative paper roller-printed with a very small repeating blue rose sprig pattern on white ground. Also on underside of box. Box contains four wallpaper fragments (see 2002.63.18a and 2002.63.24a).
trunks (containers)
wood (plant material)
paper (fiber product)
Trunk
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
5 x 10 x 6 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.39
Title 2002.63.18a and 2002.63.24a Accession Number
Machine Printed
trunk lining
White
Original
Machine Made
Paper
Rose
Floral
Sprig
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