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Wallpaper Tracing

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Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

Date

1967

GUSN

GUSN-291070

Description

Three fragments of a tracing made by Dorothy Waterhouse of the parlor wallpaper, John Quincy Adams House, Adams National Historical Park, Quincy, Massachusetts. Large-scale floral pattern. Tracing made with yellow and blue colored pencils on tracing paper.

Details

Descriptive Terms

tracing paper
wallpapers
tracing paper
colored pencils

Inscription

"My tracing of John Quincy Adams w. p." (handwritten)

Associated Person

Waterhouse, Dorothy S.

Associated Building

Associated With John Quincy Adams Birthplace (Adams National Historical Park, Quincy, MA),

Maker

Waterhouse, Dorothy S. (Maker)

Location of Origin

Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Bernard Scott

Accession Number

2001.281.974A-C

Date

1967 (Per date on photographs. See object file.)

Places

Quincy (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Quincy (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)

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