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Three matching fragments of wallpaper from the Old Crosby House, Main Street, Centerville, Massachusetts. Tapestry Landscape pattern of trees and shrubs in a pastoral landscape. Roller-printed in greens, browns and black on a pale light green ground. Pattern is overlaid with a horizontal black pinstripe to immitate the look of a tapestry.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
"From Old Crosby house. / Main St. - Centerville / (Mac Asbury) ? / then given me by Mrs. Snyder" (Uncertain if name in paranthesis is "Mac" or "Mae")
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To
Unknown
29 x 14 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.349A-C
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.90
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Lt. Green
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Trees
shrubs
bushes
fields
pastoral
pinstripes
Tapestry
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