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Large oval cut from a paper window shade and applied, probably to a fire screen, as a decorative element. Probable fourth paper of approximately six from one location in Hanson, Massachusetts. Paper block-printed with large rosebush with orange, white and blue roses growing from a blue pot on a light blue ground. The back of the paper also printed with light blue ground.
wallpapers
shades (coverings)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
"Mrs. Francis Hunt / 324 Winter St. Hanson" (written on scrap of newsprint)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
34 1/2 x 16 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.401.5AB
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.3A-C
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.401.4
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.6A-C
Title Window Shade used as Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.7A-D
Block Printed
wall fragment
Blue
Original
Machine Made
Freize
Paper
Roses
thorns
bush
flower pot
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