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Handmade document folder. One of a group of twenty-two enclosures created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California to house family documents. The folder is made of a single piece of folded watercolor paper and decorated with stenciled yellow roses over a stripe of three vertical stripes. On the front of the folder is a black, circular handmade stamp with stylized lettering spelling "Percival."
folders (containers)
coverings and hangings for documents
watercolor paper
stenciling
folders (containers)
Folder, File
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)
Los Angeles, California, United States
10 x 8 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1193.20
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Title Purse Accession Number 1946.124
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