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Fragment of reproduction wallpaper "Thayer Blossom" produced by Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. Small sprig pattern with palmette figures screen-printed in blue, black and white on yellow ground. The pattern is based on a late eighteenth-century wallpaper from the General Sylvanus Thayer birthplace, Braintree, Massachusetts.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
screen printing
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Thayer Blossom
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Associated With General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace,
Waterhouse Wallhangings (Manufacturer)
24 x 20 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.826
Braintree (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.334A-C
Screen Print
Unused
Yellow
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Sprig
palmette
Sprig
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