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Board from room end or side wall painted gray with freehand designs in balck and white with scrolls; bird and owl.
shop signs
oil paint (paint)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
owl (bird)
Wood
Oil Paint
Painted
Owl
Bird
Sign, Trade
Typewritten on jelly jar label at right, board reverse: Board from a/painted room in the Williams Inn, Sunder/land MA. Remainder/of painted walls owned/by Soc. Pres. N.E./Antiquities, Boston. Handwritten on white label below jelly label, reverse: Wall boarding from/Williams Inn,/Sunderland, Mass./See painted box by same decorator. Handwritten in green chalk reverse, right: O D D
Original To Williams Inn,
Unknown
11 5/8 x 59 x 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.332
Little, Nina Fletcher, Author. American Decorative Wall Painting. [No Publisher].
Massachusetts (United States)
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