| Culture: | American
| | Title: | box
| | Date Made: | mid to late 19th century
| | Type: | Container; Personal Gear
| | Materials: | cardboard, paper, ink, coral, silver, textile, paint
| | Place Made: | United States
| | Measurements: | overall: 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 in; 1.5875 cm x 8.255 cm x 5.08 cm
| | Accession Number: | HD 64.172
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Mrs. Dorothy Williams Hartigan
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Small cardboard trinket box covered with colored papers to look like a book with a blue-green cover edged with impressed gold paper and marblized paper around three sides. The interior lid has 1/2 of a prescription label printed on the botton, "Charles City, Iowa," which is inscribed " more than 100 years old / E. J. Williams." The box came from the descendants of Dr. Stephen West Williams (1790-1855) of Deerfield, who married Harriet Taylor Goodhue (1799-1874) in 1818. Harriet was the daughter of Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849) who was a doctor at Fort Constitution, N.H., and moved to Deerfield by 1822. Stephen and Harriet had four children, one of whom, Dr. Edward Jenner Williams (1823-1881), studied medicine with his father and and then moved to Laona, Illinois, where he married Orilla Nancy Webster in 1856; Edward Jenner died in Charles City, Iowa. Two of their three sons and their daughter lived to adulthood - Dr. Henry Smith Williams (1863-1943), Dr. Edward Huntington Williams (1868-1944), and Harriet Goodhue Williams Myers (1867-1949) who wrote a privately printed book (1945), "We Three, Henry, Eddie and Me: Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams, Harriet Williams Myers." The donor, Dorothy Williams Hartigan, was the daugher of Henry Smith Williams and Florence Whitney Williams, and first cousin of Helen Myers Curtis and her sister, Neva Myers Brown, who were the daughters of Harriet Williams Myers and Raymond Myers. Both Mrs. Hartigan and Mrs. Curtis gave Historic Deerfield a number of Williams/Goodhue family pieces. The box contents include: silver pencil, coral beads, tiny velvet bag decorated with a painted floral spray, and a piece of pattern silk on cardboard.
Subjects:
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