Wallpaper fragments and several unused rolls, ashlar pattern of gray, white, and beige blocks with horses pulling a man in a chariot, accompanied by a flying cherub. Fragments from envelope marked "Paper from #34 at the Restoration". Removed from the 1st and 2nd floor Hall by Betty Phillips during the 1971-1974 restoration.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
"6089/J.J.M" (Gray ink)
"3 Rolls of Hall Paper/for refurnishing 34 Chestnut St" (Anna P. Phillips script)
"To: Mrs. Stephen W. Phillips/No 34 Chestnut St Salem/Mass/BUNCE'S/MIDDLETOWN. CONN/PARCEL POST/IF THIS PACKAGE REMAINS UNDELIVERED PLEASE NOTIFY/SENDERS AT ONCE AND RETURN POSTAGE WILL BE PROVIDED" (printed)
"Paper from #34 at the Restoration/Rust + Tan Chinese-dining Room/Gray-Hall/Grass Cloth-Parlor/Tan with green-Stephen's Bedroom" (Betty W. Phillips script, blue ink)
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
22 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3488
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