Fragment of diaper-pattern wallpaper presumed to be from the Wade Homestead, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Navy blue quatrefoils consisting of four stylized flower heads are framed by a white, diamond-shaped lattice. Roller-printed in blue, white and black on ungrounded paper. Wood pulp is visible in the paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
diaper patterns
Wallpaper
"Very early" [underlined] (In same handwriting and pen as notes associated with 2001.281.971.1ab.)
Wade, Mary
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Wade House (Ipswich, MA),
Unknown
United States
12 x 4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.971.2
Ipswich (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Probably United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.971.1AB
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.971.3
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Quatrefoil
Diamond
Stylized Flower
Diaper Pattern
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