Box, Document
- Object Name:
- Box, Document
- Object ID:
- 2019.044
- Creator:
- Rogers, Benjamin (1787-1854)
Leatherworker - Place of Origin:
- Hollis, NH
- Date:
- circa 1830
- Description:
- Document box, made by Benjamin Rogers (1787-1854), Hollis, NH, c. 1830. Rectangular pine box covered with brown kid leather; leather band trim with gilded tacks. Hinged lid with leather straps; gilded brass hinged pull handle on top. Lined with white wallpaper with blue dot diamond pattern. "TRUNKS, / MANUFACTURED & WARRANTED / BY / BENJAMIN ROGERS, / Hollis, N. H." printed on paper label, inside cover.
- Material:
- Wood
Leather
Metal
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-5 W-10.1 D-6.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Benjamin Rogers (1787-1854) was the son of Benjamin Rogers and Betty Merrill of Hollis, NH. Like his father, Benjamin was skilled in woodworking, becoming a manufacturer of boxes and trunks as well as a farmer. Rogers made trunks for approximately 25 years through 1850, many of them sold through an unidentified retailer in Lowell, MA.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of William W. Upton
- Subjects:
- Trunks
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