Document Folder

1910–1920

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 the late-eighteenth century arithmetic book of her great, great aunt Lydia Percival [Freeman] of Lenox, Massachusetts. The fold is covered with wallpaper with the Arts and Crafts style pattern "Minto," designed by C. F. A. Voysey in 1901. The pattern consists of stylized tulips, daylilies and birds in blue, yellow, orange, purple, green and turquois on white ground.