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Wallpaper fragment of partial sheet. Amorphous design, alternating with stylized foliate vine on striped paper. Printed in black, white and green on blue ground. Straight match.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Original To Elias Cadwell House,
1009
Zechariah Mills (Manufacturer)
United States
12 x 20 (HxW) (inches)
Museum Purchase
1967.26
Antiques, vol. 62, Sept. 1952. Wallpaper in New England, p. 79, fig. 16.1. Lynn, Wallpaper in America, p. 114, pl. 6-6 (different blocks).
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1959.130
Title Sheathing Accession Number 1959.131
Block Printed
Wall Fragment
Blue
Original
Handmade
Laid
Paper
Stripe
amorphous shells?
rocks?
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