Box

Object/Artifact

Vermont Historical Society

Name/Title

Box

Entry/Object ID

1966.2.10a-b

Description

Rectangular, red-painted wooden box with loose lid and nailed corners. The lid lifts open with no hinges or closing mechanism, indicating the box may have been a shipping container rather than one meant to be regularly used. The top of the lid is framed with narrow, raised boards, though one side is now missing. One of the short ends is painted with either Chinese or Japanese characters running up the left side. A paper label on the same end bears the inked inscription, "HELEN TYLER/HER BOX./Daughter of Royall Tyler/and Laura Britton Keyes/his wife./Died September 18[49]50 aged 4/years."

Context

Used by Helen Tyler of Brattleboro, Vermont

Acquisition

Accession

1966.2

Source or Donor

Melville, Dorothy Sutherland

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Date made

1846 - 1850

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Box

Nomenclature Class

Containers

Nomenclature Category

Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

11-1/2 in

Width

8-1/2 in

Depth

5-7/8 in

Material

Wood

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Tyler, Helen (1846-1850)

Related Places

Place

Town

Brattleboro

County

Windham County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America