Document folder

Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 · 1910–1930

Small 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 1832-1834 "Farming Memoranda" of her great-grandfather Elisha Percival, Jr. (1781-1867) of Lenox, Massachusetts. The folder is made from a piece of wallpaper backed with a piece of thin cardboard. The wallpaper is roller-printed with stylized fruit trees and peacocks in the English Arts and Crafts style of designers Arthur Silver and C.F.A. Voysey. Roller-printed in green, yellow, red and blue on ungrounded paper.