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Fragment of floral wallpaper border. Red flowers and grasses mingle with pale green foliage and flowers with red centers on olive ground. Upper and lower edges decorated with undulating maroon and pale green lines and outer maroon stripe. Block-printed in maroon, dark orange, white, yellow and pale green on olive ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"A. W. P. M. A. [Logo] / 2388" (American Wall Paper Manufacturers' Association logo and pattern number)
2388
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
4 1/2 x 14 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.910
1880-1887 (American Wall Paper Manufacturers' Association)
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Flowers
foliage
grasses
stripes
Floral
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