Unidentified creator. Storage box owned by Kezia Taylor Stiles (1702-1727), lined with printed fragments from unidentified broadsides

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Description

Title
Unidentified creator. Storage box owned by Kezia Taylor Stiles (1702-1727), lined with printed fragments from unidentified broadsides
Creator
Unidentified Creators
Published / Created
[before 1727 December 4]
Abstract

One wooden box made in England or Massachusetts, with an attached lid and iron hinges, straps, and clasp; it measures 19 cm high, 27.5 cm wide, and 18.5 cm deep. The box was painted black and lined with printed paper sheets including a seventeenth-century English xylographic broadside featuring Biblical maxims and pictorial devices, and writings by Samuel Sewall. Owned by Kezia Taylor Stiles and signed by her on the broadside lining the lid: "Kezia Taylor / 1725," it was also inscribed at the right edge by her son: "Ezra Stiles. 1760. This was my Mothers / Mn Kez. Taylor of Westfield."

Description
Box contained wax seal and shoe buckles.
Ezra Stiles (1727-1795), president of Yale College 1778-1795.
Title devised by cataloger.
Extent
1 box ; 19 x 27.5 x 18.5 cm.
Extent of Digitization
Completely digitized

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
GEN MSS 1475
Collection Title
Ezra Stiles Papers
Collection/Other Creator
Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795
Collection Date
1667-1991 (Bulk: 1740-1795)
Collection Note
Series V. Miscellaneous Volumes and Papers
Container / Volume
Box 67

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Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
three dimensional object
Genre
Boxes (containers)--United States--18th century
Broadsheet (format)--England--17th century
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name)
Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730
Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795.
Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795--Inscription
Stiles, Isaac, 1697-1760
Stiles, Kezia Taylor, 1697-1727

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Citation
Ezra Stiles Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
14495181
Object ID (OID)
14949966

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