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Cut sample of the reproduction wallpaper "New Hampshire Stencil" affixed to paperboard. Pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection produced by the Warner Company, Chicago. Pattern consists of wide stripe of stylized flowers on dense leafy branches and narrow stripes of overlapping organic figures. Roller-printed in brown and two greens on light cream ground. Original wallpaper found in a house in Brewster, Massachusetts.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
stripes
Wallpaper
"There is matching fabric for this wallpaper / From the Waterhouse Collection / "New Hampshire Stencil" / Recreated by Binnie B. Wilson for The Warner Co. / 21406" (Text cut from selvedge and pasted to verso of paperboard.)
New Hampshire Stencil
21406
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Warner Company (Manufacturer)
Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
19 3/4 x 18 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.822
Brewster (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.706
Unused
Cream
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
stripes
stylized flowers
Floral Stripe
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