Fragment of a diaper-patterned wallpaper from Gorham, Maine. Fourteen-sided lozenge figures form a thin-lined diaper pattern. Each lozenge frames a small, elongated quatrefoil. Roller-printed in brown, gray, blue, orange, red and green on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
diaper patterns
Wallpaper
"Gorham Me. / House of Mrs. Geo. Hutcherson" (Handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
(Manufacturer)
17 x 19 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.592
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
quatrefoil
diaper
Diaper Pattern
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