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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. The folder is made from a piece of Morris & Co. floral wallpaper block-printed in peach on light peach ground.
folders (containers)
coverings and hangings for documents
wallpapers
wallpapers
folders (containers)
Arts and Crafts (movement)
Folder, File
Percival, Olive, Miss
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Percival, Olive, Miss (Maker)
William Morris & Co. (Manufacturer)
Los Angeles, California, United States; England
8 3/4 x 13 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1193.5
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Block Printed
Handmade file folder cover
Peach
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized Flowers
foliate
Arts and Crafts
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