Box
- Object Name:
- Box
- Object ID:
- 1978.057
- Date:
- 1835
- Description:
- Rectangular wooden box with printed illustrations of animals, people, and various small vignettes cut from paper and applied to lid and four sides of box, which appears to have been varnished. Inside box lid, additional illustrations have been pasted, as well as name and date, "Elmira Flanders", "March 20, 1835," which appear to have been assembled from individual letters cut from newsprint.
- Material:
- Paper
Wood - Dimensions:
- H-5.25 W-9.1 D-7.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Elmira J. Flanders, born December 20,1815, in Bradford, NH, was the daughter of Moses and Nancy Emory Flanders of Bradford, Warner, and Bridgewater, NH. She died in 1841 and was buried in Hillsborough, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Merlin L. Ascomb
- People:
- Flanders, Elmira J.
- Subjects:
- Animals, Boxes, Illustrations
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