Partial roll of wallpaper. Diaper-pattern with quatrefoil figures block printed in metallic gold and black on taupe ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
diaper patterns
Wallpaper
"Victorian - mid 19th century / etc. / many from Salem, Cape Cod, Maine, etc - / I have checked them all + / they can be filed. Not that interesting" (handwritten)
"Almost all late / papers - Victorian, etc / I have checked them / + must press them + put / together in a folder of / later papers" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
19 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1046
Block Printed
Unused
Taupe
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Diamonds
Quatrefoils
Diaper Pattern
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