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Wall board with several wallpaper fragments adhering. Side one has two wallpaper fragments: (1) Grid of white vines with stylized black floral motifs on dark green ground. (2) Alternating stripes of pink and blue eight-petalled stylized flowers, interspersed with green four-petalled flowers; pink, blue, white, black, and green on beige ground. Second paper is adhered to two or more additional wallpaper layers, both blue, which are barely visible. Side two: Vertical vine stripes alternating with stripes of floral medallions.
wallpapers
sheathing
boards (flat objects)
wallpapers
softwood
Board
Unknown
15 (W) (inches)
Gift of John Hardy Wright
2004.36
Massachusetts (United States)
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Title Wallpapered board Accession Number 2010.92.1
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
floral
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