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Small 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 diary of her great aunt Abby Percival from 1831-1833. The folder is made form a piece of cardboard covered with wallpaper and lined with blue paper. The wallpaper the wallpaper is cut to extend beyond the edge of the folder, forming a flap. The blue interior paper is cut and folded to form a pocket. The wallpaper has a diamond pattern with stylized flowers centered in each diamond. It is block-printed in yellow on white ground.
folders (containers)
coverings and hangings for documents
paper (fiber product)
cardboard
wallpapers
diaper patterns
folders (containers)
Folder, File
"Diary of / Gt.- Aunt Abby Percival / Begun on New Year's Day / 1831 - / No more entries until / 6 October, 1833 - / She then was Nineteen" (Written by Olive Percival.)
Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945
Percival, Abigail, 1814-1895
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)
Los Angeles, California, United States
6 x 4 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1193.12
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Block Printed
Handmade document folder
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Diamonds
Stylized flowers
Diaper Pattern
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