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2018.011.001ab
Box and key
before 1825

Wood box covered with animal skin, perhaps calfskin, held in place with nailed leather straps. There is a handle on the top of the box, and a locking clasp at the front. The interior of the box is ...

2018.034.001
Box
circa 1935

Pink flowered box, likely from a department store. One of several used by Eileen Gillespie Slocum to store her personal archive of correspondence. Notes on interior of box lid read:

"Al...

01.779 AB
Box (container)
circa 1853

Small wooden rectangular box with removable lid. There is some faded writing on the bottom. Made of wood from the ship "Endeavour". Presented to Capt. Brooks, May 1853.

FIC.2013.42
boxes (containers)
after 1835

A child's stationery box that opens to reveal a miniature pen, letter opener, and sealing wax. Several types of paper and a small stamped envelope (reading "SURPRISE/PARIS") are stored in interior ...

28.5.1
Doll (figurine)
circa 1824

A memorial box that's a Milliner's Model. The head is papier-mache with black pupils eyes, painted hair with curls to shoulder, molded breast plate outlined in red. The body is made of wood. Doll's...

99.1.2
Box Lid
1814

Rectangular piece of dark wood, paper label on one side, a two-dimensional eagle on the other side. The eagle has a bundle of arrows in his left claw and a branch in his right claw, a shield rests ...

FIC.2014.65.3
Letter Box

A niello work box that once belonged to David Olyphant King, Prussian Consul in Siam during the 1850s; correspondence from this period was originally found inside. Box has a hinged lid, and is deco...

FIC.2014.10
Box (container)

Well-worn box containing various paper fragments referring to military adornments.

W 35.1
Box (container)

Painted green box with round shaker box with cover.

97.1.11
Box (container)

Circular lacquer box. Lid has an applied image of a house, a bridge, foliage, and a man in a uniform with a tall hat, a long coat with wide skirt, a sash, and a scabbard. Box is painted black; appl...

28.6 A-G
Box (container)

Black wooden box with six glass bottles inside. Box lid hinges at back. Metal handle on top of box. Edges of box are covered with metal banding. Metal and leather latch at front of box. Interior of...

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Brooks, Capt.
Cole, Charles M.
Cole, Charles M.
Cook, James, Capt.
Goddard, Thomas
Wanton Lyman Hazard House
John Clarke Trust
Manchester, Elnathan
Mountegna, Maurice, Mrs.
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Pringle, Jane
Slocum, Eileen Gillespie, 1915-2008
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