Five fragments of unused floral wallpaper border from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Border with flowers and leaves spilling over trellis design along lower edge. Thinner upper edge design of stripes and dots. Pale yellow background covers much of the olive green ground. Roller-printed in orange, red, pale yellow, black, dark green, pale green and white on olive ground. "A.W.P.M.A." logo and pattern number "1303" printed in selvedge.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
Anglo-Japanese
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Mrs. John Gallishaw / Concord Ave / Cambridge" (On Fragment (A))
"A.W.P.M.A. / 1303" (Logo with lettering inside scroll / pattern number)
1303
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association (1880-1887) (Manufacturer)
4 1/4 x 46 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.339A-E
Machine Printed
unused
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
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