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Wallpaper fragment mounted on paperboard labeled "Crocker" from Brewster, Massachusetts. Floral, Aesthetic style paper with asymmetrical pattern of sprays with turquiose and red flowers and olive palm fronds. Roller-printed in two shades of turquoise, red, dark maroon, fuchsia, yellow, and three shades of olive on olive ground. Logos of the American Wall Paper Manufacturer's Association and pattern number 160B1 are printed in the left-hand selvedge.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Aesthetic Movement
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Crocker / Brewster" (Crocker written on front and verso)
"13" / [check mark] (Written in red pencil. "13" is circled. Waterhouse pattern or reference number?)
"A.W.P.M.A. [in banner logo] / 160B1" (Americna Wall Paper Manufacturer's Association logo and pattern number.)
160B1
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association (1880-1887) (Manufacturer)
United States
16 5/16 x 19 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.307
United States
Title Accession Number
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Sprays
rose
carnation
palm
Aesthetic
Floral
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