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Round cardboard bandbox with lid. Twentieth century box [A] and lid [B] covered with nineteenth century block-printed scenic figure wallpaper depicting outdoor dance scene. Scene includes men and women dancing and musicians playing instruments. Scene is surrounded by repeating green diaper pattern on grey ground. On side of box, green striped wallpaper with circular emblem. Paper covers the bottom of the box.
bandboxes (containers)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Bandbox
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
7 1/16 (H), 10 1/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.24AB
Title Bandbox Accession Number 2001.281.18AB
Title Bandbox Accession Number 2001.281.23AB
Block Printed
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Paper
Dancing
Diaper
Dance
Music
Landscape
Figure
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