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Three fragments of striped wallpaper from North Eastham, Massachusetts. Blue stripes with blue dots applied over orange ground. Stripes of orange ground are printed with white dots. Wove paper, partial sheets.
wallpapers
wove paper
stripes
Wallpaper
"... a sample of the old paper I found in the downstairs front bedroom... The old was applied directly on a skim coat of something like plaster on the wide vertical exterior side boards of my three-quarter, bow-roof house here in Eastham. To find this paper, I removed many other layers of wallpaper, then plaster and lath -- in that order..." (Excerpt from letter from Mrs. Mace to Dorothy Waterhouse)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To 1st Floor Room
Unknown
21 x 12 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.460A-C
wall fragment
Orange
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
stripes
dots
Stripe
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