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Fragment of unused floral wallpaper from Portland, Maine. Stylized flowers and buds on curling stems form a dense, all-over floral pattern in a tan palette with orange and mica accents. Roller-printed in liquid mica, pale yellow, tan, brown and orange on creamy yellow ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
mica (white pigment)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Miss Marion Merrill / Hollis St / Portland Me." (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
26 x 18 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.602
Machine Printed
unused
Cream
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized flowers
Floral
Aesthetic
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