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Small, wallpaper covered box used to hold family documents. The box is one of a group of twenty-two enclosures created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. The box's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the early nineteenth century diary of her great-grandfather Elisha Percival, Junior of Lenox, Massachusetts. The box is made of pasteboard and covered with a large-scale floral wallpaper with a pattern that includes a large branch, flowers and peacock feathers. The paper is roller-printed in greens, grays, red, pinks, blues and purples on white ground. The wallpaper is embossed with a ribbed texture.
coverings and hangings for documents
pasteboard (paper)
wallpapers
floral patterns
coverings and hangings for documents
Box, Document
"Diary of / Great - Grandfather Elisha Percival, Jr. / of Lenox, Mass. / January 1801-1807 / January, April and August 1815 / Nos. 1 to 21 Inc., except 4." (Written by Olive Percival.)
Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945
Percival, Elisha, Mr., Jr., 1781-1867
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)
Los Angeles, California, United States
6 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1193.16
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Lenox (Berkshire county, Massachusetts)
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Machine Printed
Document box cover
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
Peacock
Flowers
Branch
Floral
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