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Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern 82WP467 (name not known) manufactured by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has a pattern of alternating vertical stripes including an abstract geometric design, stylized floral vines, and floral sprigs scattered along an undulating ribbon. Printed in blue, green and black on a beige ground. Pattern is based on a wallpaper used for lining an cowhide-covered trunk found in Harwich, Massachusetts.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
stripes
geometric patterns
Wallpaper
"Return to Dorothy S. Waterhouse / A Waterhosue Documentary -- Lining of an old cowhide trunk found in Harwich, Mass." (Handwritten on back by Dorothy Waterhouse.)
"Katzenbach and Warren, Inc. / 155 East 546th Street / New York, N. Y. 10022" (Stamped on back)
"Please Return To / Katzenbach / & / Warren, Inc. / 420 Boylston Street / Boston 16, Mass." (Stamped on back.)
"Number 82WP467 / $5.70 per single roll / Vinyl finished & Pre-trimmed" (Stamped on back.)
82WP467
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
14 3/8 x 20 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.779
Harwich (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Machine Printed
Unused
Beige
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
floral stripe
Paper
flowers
floral vines
stripes
geometric
Floral Stripe
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