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

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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

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

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