Wallpaper fragment from Brewster, Massachusetts. Pattern of repeating floral bouquets with trailing vines. This early American paper is roller-printed in green, red, pink and blue on an undetermined ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Brewster Mass / Home of Miss Chapman" (handwritten)
"#7" (Waterhouse inventory or reference number? Written on oval jelly jar sticker.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
(Manufacturer)
13 1/4 x 18 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.312
Probably United States
Machine Printed
wall fragment ?
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Bouquets
floral
vines
Floral
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