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Wallpaper fragments from the Captain John Kendrick House, Wareham, Massachusetts. Second layer of paper from north room on second floor, removed during mid-1970s restoration. All-over floral pattern block-printed in yellow and blue-gray on blue ground. Wove paper, partial sheets.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"TOP / SECOND FLOOR / NORTH ROOM #15" (Top refers to orientation of pattern.)
"TOP / For [?] of Design / that bled on to back / of blue paper / from below" (Imprint of the first layer of paper is visible on the back of the second layer.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Captain John Kendrick House, 2nd Floor Room
Unknown
37 x 9 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.518.2A-F
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.518.1A-I
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.519A-L
Block Printed
wall fragment
Blue
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
Flowers
Floral
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