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Four fragments of "The Boston Cultivator" farm journal dating from circa 1849-1850. Pages of the newspaper were used to cover a wall. The newspaper covered an early nineteenth-century medallion and sprig wallpaper, see 2001.281.957.1ab. An imprint of the wallpaper is visible on some of the newspaper fragments.
newspapers
wall coverings
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
Newspaper
"Whelan home - Centerville" (Written on scap of "The Standard-Times" newspaper, New Bedford, Massachusetts, July 29, 1963)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Whelan House,
The Boston Cultivator (Printer)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
10 1/2 x 12 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.957.2A-D
Centerville (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.957.1AB
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