Unused wallpaper fragment printed with two ceiling corner figures from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Each corner figure is a stylized flower and palm fan placed at a 45 degree angle over a right triangle. The triangle is colored in yellow and peach and outlined in dark maroon. The outer edges of corner figures are outlined in light blue. Outside the corner figures are squares or tiles containing a stylized flower. One of the tiles is topped with a stylized foliate fan. Roller-printed in pale yellow, peach, maroon, brown, green and light blue on cream ground.
wallpapers
ceiling papers
paper (fiber product)
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"Stroudsburg, PA" (Handwritten)
"1235" (Partially cut off)
1235
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
37 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.616
Probably United States
Machine Printed
Unused
Cream
Original
Machine Made
Ceiling
Paper
Stylized flower
Palm
Tiles
Fans
Ceiling Paper
Aesthetic
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