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Wallpaper fragments and unused rolls, tan grasscloth printed with dark green leaves. From envelope marked "Paper from #34 at the Restoration". Removed from the Library by Betty Phillips during the 1971-1974 restoration. Additional unused rolls were found on the third floor during inventory. This paper is on the walls of the Library in the 1918 photograph of Stephen Willard Phillips [2006.44.892].
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
"Paper from #34 at the Restoration/Rust + Tan Chinese-dining Room/Gray-Hall/Grass Cloth-Parlor/Tan with green-Stephen's Bedroom"
(Script, blue ink)
Unknown
36 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3489
Title Stephen W. Phillips in Library Accession Number 2006.44.892
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