Fragment of stylized floral wallpaper from Eastham, Massachusetts. Wallpaper has all-over, dense pattern of stylized flowers. Roller-printed in white, ochre, and yellow on yellow ground. 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 2001.281.979.1). The pattern was reproduced by the Warner Company as "Eastham Daisy."
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Eastham Daisy" (Written in pencil, then erased but still visible. Pattern name of reproduction.)
"Eastham Mass / Old Freeman house, Ridge Rd." (Rridge is either Bridge or Ridge. Entered as written.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Freeman House,
Unknown
United States
9 x 18 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.979.2
Eastham (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
United States
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.737.1-.4
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.979.1
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.832
Machine Printed
unused
Yellow
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized flowers
Daisy
Floral
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