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Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in the "Houndstooth" pattern (#159463) by Waterhouse Wallhangings. Paper has an all-over small houndstooth geometrc pattern. Roller-pinted on textured paper in brown on a beige ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
houndstooth
Wallpaper
"Wallcoverings / Manufactured For / Waterhouse Wallhangings Inc. / 38 Wareham Street / Boston, Mass. 02118 / Contents / 71.75 Square Feet / 20 1/2 ons. x 14 yds." (Stamped on back.)
"159-463 / [illegible] Made in U.S.A." (Stamped on back)
"159463 / $5.70" (Handwritten on back.)
Houndstooth
159463
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
20 3/8 x 13 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.786
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Machine Printed
Unused
Beige
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
houndstooth
Geometric
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