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Unused fragment of floral wallpaper from the Crocker Tavern, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Allover floral with large sprays and sprigs of pink and blue flowers. Roller-printed in gray, two blues, two pinks, three browns and green on white satin ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Dining Room / Crocker Tavern - Barnstable, Mass" ("Crocker Tavern / Dining Room Paper" written again in pencil)
"G36" (circled, appears twice, Waterhouse inventory or pattern number?)
"No mark / No [illegible]" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Crocker Tavern (Barnstable, Mass.), Dining Room
Unknown
38 1/8 x 17 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.282
Barnstable (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Machine Printed
Polished
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Roses
Leaves
vines
berries
sprigs
sprays
floral
Floral
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