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Floral stripe wallpaper fragment from Newburyport, Massachusetts. Stripe of large flowers of differing varieties overflow from a small basket is separated by narrower stripes of alternating yellow and red flowers over a ribbon of stripes and dots. Roller-printed in two reds, two greens, pale blue, yellow, ochre and black on a mustard ground. Uppermost layer of two unseparated layers.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
stripes
Wallpaper
"Pleasant St / Newburyport / Mass" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
21 x 10 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.449.2
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Yellow
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
flowers
basket
stripes
dots
scroll
Floral Stripe
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