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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. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held her great, great aunt Lydia Percival Freeman's journal of 1808-1811, including a journey from her home in Lenox, Massachusetts to Ballston Spa, New York. The folder is made from a piece of floral decorative paper and lined with a piece of solid blue paper.
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Folder, File
"Journal - / Lydia Percival / (1773-1830) / Journey from / Lenox to / Ballston Spa, etc. / (1808-1811)" (Written by Olive Percival.)
Percival, Olive, Miss
Freeman, Lydia Percival, 1773-1830
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Percival, Olive, Miss (Maker)
Los Angeles, California, United States
13 7/8 x 8 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1193.6
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Lenox (Berkshire county, Massachusetts)
Ballston Spa (Saratoga county, New York state)
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
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