Paper

Object number
2010.14.22
Description
A folio of paper objects associated with a dollhouse once owned by Elizabeth A. Robinson Cushman. Items are as follows: 1. Three pieces of metallic gold paper 2. A Christmas card with transparent plastic overlay 3. Two blue embossed pieces of cardstock with 18th c. figures playing musical instruments 4. Face of a Christmas card with transparent overlay and gold embossing 5. Face of Christmas card with gold tree and text to "the Cushmans" on reverse 6. Two Christmas cards (faces only) with metallic finish and a winter scene 7. Christmas card (face only) with four village scenes 8. Art reproduction-French seaside scene 9. Christmas card with transparent plastic overlay-snowy street scene ("Keep for Doll House picture") 10. Four circular card cutouts-Madonna and Child 11. Metallic winter scene in blue and silver (card face only) 12. Three cutouts with gold metallic finish featuring images of Mary and the Christ Child 13. Easter card-"An Easter Wish" by Hallmark 14. Piece of advertisement from Saturday Evening Post, May 13, 1961 15. Two Christmas wreath cut-outs with gold glitter 16. Small elliptical embossed eagle in gold 17.Color image of a mother and child in unidentified dress 18. Print of engraving of a man (dress appears to be first half of 19th c.) 19. Small cardboard square printed with a red armchair 20. Color print (small square) of Medieval scene, including castles and men on horseback 21. Face of Christmas card with angels playing music around a candle 22. 1961 Christmas card from Corinne and Bill Williams ("The Virgin and Child") 23. Card with embossed image of Madonna and Child on a blue and gold background (from Francis and Elizabeth Cooley) 24. Face of a Christmas card with two birds sitting on a holly branch 25. Face of a Christmas card with raised/embossed image of the Nativity on a brown background 26. Card on pink paper written to "Elizabeth." Image on plastic case on front surrounded by a gold chain 27. "Custom Tissues" swatch samples from Hammacher Schlemmer, NY  28. Face of card with ducks on a pond (by Hallmark, 1946) 29. Face of card with fabric print of a woman in Renaissance-style dress 30. Exhibit catalog for "An Exhibition of Painted Trays and Tole Objects...By Evelyn Foster Olds." Exhibit 1958-59, Washington, D.C. 31. Fragment of wallpaper depicting several outdoor scenes, including two women gardening and a man in a hammock
Materials
paper
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth Titus Putnam
Related People & Organizations
Cushman, Elizabeth Alden Robinson (associated)