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Multiple pieces of wallpaper with attached border (see border 1967.122.2) from a single room. Papers were found in a bureau drawer in the Stetson House in Hanover, Massachusetts but may originate from the Broad Oak Farm also in Hanover. Wallpaper is a striped floral pattern. A stripe of orange tulip stripe alternates with pink floral stripe. Block printed on handmade paper in black, orange, white, and varnish green on sky blue ground.
wallpapers
laid paper
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
Associated With Stetson House Main House,
Unknown
United States
1967.122.1
United States
Block Printed
Varnished
wall fragments
Lt. Blue
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Floral
Laid
Paper
stripe
floral
tulip
vine
Floral Stripe
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