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Fabric backed wallpaper sample from "Childs" wallpaper shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Large-scale floral trail wallpaper with stylized carnations, strawberries, peonies, morning glories and other flowers growing from the same meandering vine. Block-printed in black, three greens, pink, fuschia, red, two browns, two purples and blue on light cream ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
cotton (textile)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"9924 J Baxenden OSS/4.00" (Handwritten in large letters, expcept for "Baxenden" which is written in red ink.)
"Cravel Design" (handwritten)
"E 13 C / SCQ1LS1" (Ones written in European style. Handwritten large.)
"9924-J / DRS 4.00" (Written small.)
Baxenden
9924
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Childs Paper Shop (Cambridge, MA),
Unknown
57 3/4 x 39 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1076
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Block Printed
Display Sample
Cream
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized Flowers
Meandering Vine
Carnations
Strawberries
Peonies
Morning Glories
Floral Trail
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