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Unused nursery wallpaper from Exeter, New Hampshire. Scenes depicting proverbs, such as "don't cry over spilled milk" are framed by vines and flowering plants such as grapes and morning glory. Roller-printed in dark olive, ochre, pale yellow, mauve, blue, black and pink on olive ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
proverbs
Wallpaper
"From Exeter, NH / Marie Robbins, Cambridge" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
25 1/2 x 18 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.378
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.379
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
proverbs
vines
flowers
cat
dog
rooster
man
woman
rat
bull
Nursery
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