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Wallpaper fragment from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Small scale, three-dimensional block or step pattern. Block-printed in brown and white on blue ground. Affixed to paperboard. First of four layers of paper from same location.
wallpapers
wove paper
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
"Oldest house on Nantucket" (on back of paperboard)
"Bottom layer / Nantucket / Mrs Sam Murray" (on back of wallpaper)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
10 x 7 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.318.1
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.318.4
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.318.2AB
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.318.3AB
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.1123
Block Printed
wall fragment
Blue
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
blocks
steps
lines
Geometric
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