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Large, unused piece of floral wallpaper from Middleton, Massachusetts. Naturalistic floral trail pattern featuring large-scale morning glory vine. Small pink and blue flowers and lilac-like violet flowers also represented. Block-printed in six greens, three violets, three pinks, two blues, maroon, yellow, ochre, tan and gray on white polished ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Mrs. Woodward / Middleton / Alma's Cousin" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
52 3/4 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.427
Probably France
Block Printed
Polished
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
vine
flowers
morning glories
lilacs
Floral Trail
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