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Fragment of stylized floral wallpaper from Eastham, Massachusetts. Wallpaper has all-over, dense pattern of stylized flowers. Roller-printed in brown, red, blue, black and pale yellow on light ochre ground. The "American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association" logo and a pattern number are printed, but only partially visible, in the selvedge. The fragment is affixed to paperboard. Affixed to the other side of the paperboard is another sample of the same pattern in a different colorway (see 2001.281.979.2). The pattern was reproduced by the Warner Company as "Eastham Daisy."
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Eastham Daisy" (Handwritten on paperboard and then erased, but still visible. Pattern name of reproduction.)
"Eastham Mass / Old Freeman house, Rridge Rd." (Rridge is either supposed to be Bridge or Ridge. Entered as written.)
"A. W. P. M. A." [inside scroll logo] / 651 Y 1" (Pattern number is only partially visible, 651 may be 657.)
651 or 657
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Freeman House,
Unknown
United States
13 1/4 x 18 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.979.1
Eastham (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
United States
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.737.1-.4
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.979.2
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.832
Machine Printed
Unused
Ochre
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized Flowers
Daisy
Floral
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