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Partial roll of wallpaper with willow and flower pattern. All-over pattern of olive colored stylized willow branches and flowers accented in dark red and with metallic gold dots. Roller-printed in dark olive, dark red and metallic gold on olive ground. Pattern number 855 printed in the selvedge.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Aesthetic Movement
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"855" (printed)
"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"
855
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
19 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1059
United States
Machine Printed
Unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized flowers
Willow branches
Dots
Aesthetic
Floral
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