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Unused wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Vertical stripes of stylized flowers with wispy, curling stems alternate with geometrical stripes with trailing vine and floral medallion figures over horizontal banding. Roller-printed in pale yellow, orange, blue, gray, black and two browns on olive ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
stripes
Wallpaper
"Goldsmith / Middleton" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
15 7/8 x 18 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.437
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.439
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
flowers
stems
leaves
vine
medallion
Floral Stripe
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