Envelope
- Object Name:
- Envelope
- Object ID:
- 1956.145
- Date:
- circa 1842
- Description:
- Shipping Envelope, Ctss. Rumford. Hand-made envelope of heavy paper sewn together and lined with yellow paper and portions of a french newspaper. Outside (front) covered with wall paper in green and tan, (back) with yellow paper and 2 copies of poster advertising Prince of Wales steamship scehule, dated July 16, 1842. Flap fastens with cardboard toggles and cord. On flap is handwritten label "Ornaments for cutains". Below flap is shipping address written in ink on yellow label "U.S. of America / Countess Sarah Rumford / Care of James F. Baldwin Esq. / 183 Trement St. / Boston / Mass. / (map) / A paint box - nothing within. F 15 value".
- Material:
- Paper
- Provenance:
- Donor is grandniece of Mrs. Emma Gannell Burgum
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Marion A. Elkin
- People:
- Elkin, Marion A. (1882-1969)
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