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Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the school records of her great, great aunt Lydia Percival Freeman (1773-1830). The folder is made from a piece of floral wallpaper backed with brown paper embossed with a woven texture. The wallpaper is block-printed with a large pink tulip with yellow center and surrounded by smaller flowers block-printed in lavender, pink, two greens and white on white ground.
folders (containers)
coverings and hangings for documents
paper (fiber product)
wallpapers
floral patterns
folders (containers)
Folder, File
"School Records Written by / Great- Great- Aunt / Lydiea Percival of Lenox / 1797-1799 / 1801 1806 1808 1814" (Written by Olive Percival)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)
Los Angeles, California, United States
7 7/8 x 4 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1193.11
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Block Printed
Handmade document folder
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized flowers
Tulip
Floral
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