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Wallpaper fragments from Essex, Massachusetts. Abstract pattern of blue radiating bursts and cream colored concentric circles on a dappled cinnamon background. Roller-printed in three blues, yellow, maroon, brown, tan and cream on a cinnamon ground. The pigment is powdry and has rubbed off in large areas.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
"Jo Steele" / "M. Steele" / "Essex Mass/ Jo Steele" / "1750 House / Essex Mass / M. Steele" ("Jo Steele" written numberous times (once in red pen),)
"Jo Steele / Essex Mass" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.394A-D
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Cinnamon
Original
Machine Made
abstract
Paper
bursts
raidiating
circles
dappled
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