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Rolled fragment of unused, all-over floral wallpaper. An Aesthetic-style floral paper with flowers in dark red, brown and purple and dense green foliage. Roller-printed in two yellows, red, dark purple, brown, black, white and dark olive on light olive ground. The American Wall Paper Manufacturers' Association logo and pattern number 609 are printed in the selvedge.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"Good design - similar to Acton floral" (handwritten)
"0 / 609 / A. W. P. M. A [in scroll logo]" (Pattern number and American Wall Paper Manufacturers' Association logo)
"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)
609
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association (1880-1887) (Manufacturer)
United States
21 1/4 x 19 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1057
1880-1887 (Active period of the A.W.P.M.A.)
United States (Sierra county, New Mexico) [mine]
Machine Printed
Unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Flowers
Foliage
Aesthetic
Floral
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