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Rolled fragment of floral wallpaper from Wellfleet, Massachusetts. All-over pattern of small white flowers attached to leafy stems. Roller-printed in dark brown, pale yellow and yellow on brown ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"770" (printed)
"Freeman Baker house - about 200 years old / Truro Rd. Wellfleet / Miss Ethel Nickerson's house / Discovered in the house 64 years ago." (handwritten)
770
Nickerson, Ethel, Miss
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
26 1/2 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1096
Wellfleet (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
United States
Machine Printed
Unused
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Sprigs
Foliate
Leaves
Flowers
Floral
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