Cut sample of the reproduction wallpaper "Acton Floral." Sample is affixed to paperboard. Pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection produced by the Warner Company, Chicago. All-over floral pattern sprigs and sprays with large, red and yellow flowers on dark green leafy stems accented by blue, yellow and red berries and small stylized flowers on a background pattern of light green stylized foliage. Roller-printed in red, yellow, blue, black and three greens on white ground. The pattern is based on a wallpaper found in a house in Acton, Massachusetts.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"There is matching fabric for this wallpaper / 21400 / Acton Floral / From the Waterhouse Collection" (Text has been cut from selvedge and pasted to back of paperboard.)
Acton Floral
21400
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Warner Company (Manufacturer)
Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
20 1/2 x 18 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.824
Acton (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.706
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.710
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.841
Machine Printed
Unused
White
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized Flowers
Sprigs
Sprays
Berries
Stylized foliage
Floral
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