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Wallpaper fragment from Reading, Massachusetts. Ogee pattern of repeating lozenges framing snowflake-like figures. The horizontal striping and broken lines in the pattern give the impression of a woven textile. Roller-printed in dark brown, metallic gold and white on beige ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
Wallpaper
"Reading, Mass / From Natalie Cahill" (handwritten)
Cahill, Natalie
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
13 x 13 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.479
Reading (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Title Wallpaper attached to wallboard Accession Number 2001.281.1204
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Beige
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
ogee
snowflake figure
horizontal striping
immitation textile
Diaper Pattern
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