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Wallpaper - Toile Hunting Scenes

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Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

Date

ca. 1950

GUSN

GUSN-260132

Description

Toile; four repeating scenes; boy on horse with spear and two dogs attacking a wild boar; two boys with horse and dogs and house; boy with horn, dogs, and deer; two boys on horses with dog and tree; red on cream ground.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
machine-made
hunting
American Colonial
rural areas
Wallpaper
Wallpaper

Inscription

"JOIN (arrow pointing left) WALCREST (arrow pointing right) (symbol)"/ REG. U.S. PAT.OFF." (printed)
" --TOP ( arrowing pointing right) JOIN (symbol)" (printed)

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

24 1/4 (W), 2 1/4 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Elinor Thomas

Accession Number

2002.32.54

Places

Freeport (Cumberland county, Maine)
Maine (United States)
United States

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