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Four wallpaper fragments from a house on Wellington Street in South Boston, Massachusetts. Art Nouveau style wallpaper with large-scale, stylized floral pattern. Roller-printed in red, green and black on a bronze ground. Paper is embossed with a wood grain pattern and varnished after printing.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
varnish
Art Nouveau
Wallpaper
"Hall paper / (no other found)" (Written in pink highlighter?)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To 4 Wellington Street (South End, Boston, MA), Front Hall
Unknown
29 3/16 x 18 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.302A-D
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Machine Printed
Varnished
wall fragment
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
flowers
floral
Art Nouveau
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