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Unused, incomplete sample. Tile pattern with scenes depicting Paul Revere's ride and accompanying text "Hang a Lantern aloft/in the belfry arch/of the North Church/tower as a signal light. One if by land/Two if by sea/and one on the opposite shore will be." Prints in white on brown ground.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
Revere, Paul, 1735-1818
3005
Unknown
United States
16 x 23 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of W. Newton Nelson
1985.862
United States
Machine Printed
Unused
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Patriotism, Revolutionary War, Paul Revere's Ride
Paper
Paul Revere
Boston
Cambridge
North Church
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