Wallpaper fragment from Auburn, New Hampshire. Moiré and floral stripe. Block-printed in gray, red and green on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
stripes
moiré
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"1856 newspaper / found on the back / of this" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
26 1/4 x 11 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.436
1850-1865 (1856 newspaper found behind wallpaper)
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Moiré
flowers
vine
stripe
Stripe
Floral
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