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Wallpaper fragment from the Crocker Tavern, Barnstable, Massachusetts mounted on paperboard. Anglo-Japanese style pattern featuring large floral bouquets among geometric shapes and figures. Striped design to immitate the look of a woven textile. American Wall Paper Manufacturer's Association logo printed in left selvedge. Roller-printed in yellow, dark olive, dark maroon, peach and brown on olive ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Anglo-Japanese
Wallpaper
"Crocker" / "Barnstable" (written in two different hands)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Crocker Tavern (Barnstable, Mass.),
American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association (1880-1887) (Manufacturer)
United States
12 1/8 x 19 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.283
Barnstable (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
United States
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
bouquet
floral
geometric
pindots
stripes
rosettes
immitation textile
Anglo-Japanese
Imitation textile
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