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Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder or book cover is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This cover's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held her great, great aunt Lydia Percival Freeman's "Cookery Book" from 1817. The cover is made from a piece of rose wallpaper roller-printed in red, three pinks, brown, two greens and blue on a ground of tan with white quatrefoil figures.
folders (containers)
coverings and hangings for documents
wallpapers
wallpapers
folders (containers)
floral patterns
Book cover
"Cookery Book of / Gt., Gt. Aunt Lydia - / 1817 - / Lydia Percival of Lenox - / Md. 1818 and went to the / frontier to live, near/ Buffalo, N. Y." (Written by Olive Percival)
Percival, Olive, Miss
Freeman, Lydia Percival, 1773-1830
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Percival, Olive, Miss (Maker)
Los Angeles, California, United States
10 7/8 x 8 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1193.7AB
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Lenox (Berkshire county, Massachusetts)
Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California)
Machine Printed
Hanmade book cover
Tan
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Roses
Quatrefoil
Floral
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