St. Olaf College 3D object collection ➔ Class of 1909 leather letter box
Leather Goods
Usage: 1909-1924 Single
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items
Brown leather cylindrical letter box with a leather strap over the lid and buckle on the base. "Is uncaned for | Return to | Class '09-Letter, | St. Olaf College, | Northfield, | Minn. | U.S.A. [?]" is handwritten in black on the side. Signs of adhesive and postal stamps are also visible. "TRADE | HOTAKOLD | MARK" is impressed on the bottom. Blue felt lines the interior. The stitching has partially unraveled on the top and bottom, and the leather strap is severed.
Brown leather cylindrical letter box with a leather strap over the lid and buckle on the base. "Is uncaned for | Return to | Class '09-Letter, | St. Olaf College, | Northfield, | Minn. | U.S.A. [?]" is handwritten in black on the side. Signs of adhesive and postal stamps are also visible. "TRADE | HOTAKOLD | MARK" is impressed on the bottom. Blue felt lines the interior. The stitching has partially unraveled on the top and bottom, and the leather strap is severed.
Archives Work Area ➔ 250J
277A
277A
This letter box was used by the Saint Olaf College Class of 1909 to send letters to one another, round-robin style, from 1909 to 1924. It was donated in the late 1960s by librarian Forrest Brown.
Brown, Jr., Forrest E. (donor)
St. Olaf College. Class of 1909 (related)
Letter writing
leather
mail containers
mail containers
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