Cut sample of sorgum (corn) wallpaper. Printed in ochre, grey, two blues, olive, white on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Fowler House Main House,
596
Unknown
United States
27 3/4 x 19 (HxW) (inches)
Museum Purchase
1935.1558
"Wallpaper in New England," pg. 226, fig. 61.2
United States
Machine Printed
Unused
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
sorghum
broom corn
Aesthetic
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