Update Our ticketing, donations, and membership sales portal is down for scheduled maintenance on the afternoon of 4/11.
Three fragments of a stripe and sprig patterned wallpaper from an old school in Centerville, Massachusetts. Stripes of blue rose sprigs on a cream background alternate with brown stripes with small blue dot and dash figures in blue. Roller-printed in two blues, brown and cream on ungrounded paper. Fragment (A) is still attached to upper layers of wallpaper. See related objects.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
stripes
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To
Unknown
12 x 8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.350.1A-C
Probably United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.350.2A-C
Title Wallpaper border Accession Number 2001.281.350.3A-C
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
roses
stripes
sprig
dots
dashes
Stripe
Sprig
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].
Sign up to our newsletter for our latest news and events
