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Unused wallpaper fragment. Scenes from Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Man in front of water wheel; woman with many children (Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe); mounted wolf head (Little Red Riding Hood). Printed in yellow, red, green, two shades of brown on a grey ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.), 3rd Floor Room
1566
Unknown
England
4 7/8 x 9 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.2185
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Machine Printed
Unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Mother Goose
Embossed
Paper
man in front of a wheel
wolf head mounted on a plaque (Little Red Riding Hood)
Old woman who lived in a shoe
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