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Small sample of Nylon wallpaper from Haverhill, Massachusetts. Screen-printed with fern branches in bronze and flocked fern and leafy branches in cream. Reflective (resembles liquid mica), light cream ground. "Hand Print by Fine" [text cut off] in selvedge.
wallpapers
nylon
paper (fiber product)
flocking
screen printing
Wallpaper
"Nylon papers from / lady in Haverhill" (Written on envelop addressed to Dorothy Waterhouse. Cancelled postage stamp dated Jan 11 / 3:30 PM / 1958 / Haverhill / Mass.)
"This is nylon / $16.00 a roll" (Not Dorothy Waterhouse's handwriting.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
10 x 10 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.406
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.407
Title Grass Cloth Accession Number 2001.281.405
Screen Print
Flocked
unused
Cream
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
fern branches
Leafy branches
Foliate
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