Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Box, Document |
Object ID # |
2008.9.66 |
Other Name |
Chest, Document |
Title |
Document box from the Schantz-Longacre family |
Place of Origin |
Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
Year Range from |
1834 |
Year Range to |
1860 |
Material |
Wood, leather, brass, paper, metal |
Dimensions |
H-7.25 W-8 L-12 inches |
Description |
Hide and leather covered wooden document box (chest) with hinged lid and brass handle. Has a metal lock (key is missing). Box is lined with newspaper dated 1834 and 1864. The hide cover is probably hog; some of the hair survives. Trimmed with strips of leather and brass studs. Inside the box are some papers and photos from the family of John W. & Mary Schantz Longacre of near Rich Hill, Bucks County. |
Provenance |
Document box from the family of John W. and Mary Schantz Longacre of Rich Hill, Bucks County and later of Quakertown. It may have come from the family of Mary's parents, Henry and Elizabeth Bechtel Schantz of Hosensack, Lehigh County. |
Source |
Gift of Dorothy Longacre McGann |
People |
Longacre, John W., 1848-1922 Longacre, Mary B. Schantz, 1852-1931 Schantz, Henry G., 1807-1864 Schantz, Elizabeth H. Bechtel, 1816-1897 |