Three fragments of wallpaper border with doily and flower pattern. White doilies with pink dots overlap across the top of the border. Alternating red and blue flowers with green leaves repeat along the bottom. There is a pink background between the doilies and the flowers. A metallic silver background, below the flowers. Roller-printed in white, red, two pinks, two blues, yellow, green, black and metallic silver on ungrounded paper. Paper is embossed with pebble texture. Fragments of sidewall paper are still attached. The sidewall is a pale pink paper with small white pindots and narrow white stripes with floral pattern.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
metallic pigment
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
2 3/8 x 12 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.949A-C
Probably United States
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Border
Embossed
Paper
Flowers
Doily
Floral
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