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Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-two created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. The folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held "Gravestone Transcriptions" dating between 1801 and 1825 from Lee, Massachusetts. The folder is made from a folded piece of pasteboard covered with decorative paper. The decorative paper is printed in brown with a pattern of griffin figures on a coffer-patterned background.
folders (containers)
coverings and hangings for documents
pasteboard (paper)
paper (fiber product)
folders (containers)
Folder, File
"Gravestone / Transcriptions / Lee / Massachusetts / 1801-1825" (Written by Olive Percival.)
Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)
Los Angeles, California, United States
9 1/2 x 6 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1193.17
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
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