Striped wallpaper fragments from Hanson, Massachusetts. Probable third layer of approximately six. Alternating stripes of flowers, horizontal stripes with dots and scrolling vines. Roller-printed in green, red and white on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
stripes
Wallpaper
"Mrs. Francis Hunt / 324 Winter St. Hanson" (written on scrap of newsprint)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
35 1/2 x 16 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.401.3A-C
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.1
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.2A-C
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.401.4
Title Window Shade used as Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.5AB
Title Window Shade used as Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.7A-D
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
flowers
dots
stripes
scrolls
Stripe
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