In box

Scraps Box, ca. 1835
Mid-Atlantic
Painted and gilt pine and poplar
Lent by a New York Collector

Bandbox, 1827–29; decorated ca. 1841
J.P. Hurlbert
Boston, Massachusetts
Pasteboard decorated with stereotype and woodblock scraps
Lent by Old Sturbridge Village

Top Painting
Mount Vernon, Va., probably New Hampshire, ca. 1845. Sand and chalk on wove paper. (The Plotkin Family Collection, Nyack, New York; photo,

Work table, Connecticut, 1810–1820. Maple and stenciled decoration with white pine. (Courtesy, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont.)