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Square cardboard bandbox with lid. Twentieth century box [A] and lid [B] covered with nineteenth century block-printed wallpaper depicting an outdoor dance scene in black and white and repeating diaper pattern in green on tan ground.
bandboxes (containers)
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
"Basement" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
6 7/8 x 10 1/8 x 10 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.18AB
Title Bandbox Accession Number 2001.281.24AB
Block Printed
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Paper
Diaper
Dance
Dancing
Music
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