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Wallpaper fragment from Dedham, Massachusetts. Striped wallpaper with stylized Neo-classical elements. Blue geometric stripes alternate with white stripes of stylized neo-classical figures. Block-printed in white and blue on ungrounded, blue paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
stripes
Wallpaper
"From Dedham Mass / Jo Steele" (handwritten)
"#14 / Early / Good / from / Dedham / Mass. / Jo Steele" ("#14" written in red pen.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
10 1/2 x 10 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.372
Probably United States
Title Accession Number
Block Printed
wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
flower
palmette
geometrical
chevron
dots
dashes
NeoClassical
Stripe
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