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Unused sample. Pattern featuring Currier & Ives subjects. The four scenes pictures are: Nathaniel Currier and his wife in their sleigh; the first train of the New York Central Railroad; "Preparing for the Market"; and "Steamboat Race on the Mississippi". Printed in red, two greens, yellow, blue, black on an off-white ground.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
2459
Sampson Gifford House (Duxbury, Mass.),
3726
United Wallpapers, Inc. (Manufacturer)
United States
16 3/4 x 14 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Estate of Rosamond Gifford
2000.530
"Walls by Hickey," sample book volume II, 1937, pg. 57 (1996.61)
1935-1960 (1937- date of sample book (1996.61) (1937))
United States
Title Accession Number 1996.61
Engraved
Unused
Ivory
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Currier and Ives
Paper
train
horse-drawn sleigh
steamboats
farm
horses
chickens
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