Partial roll of wallpaper from Gorham, Maine. All-over pattern of tropical plants, all foliate except for a pair of yellow orchids. Roller-printed in metallic copper, pale yellow, peach, light olive and five browns on ochre ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
"MADE FOR / HENRY P. IVES / SALEM, MASS" (stamped)
"Dining room / when house moved / Dining Room / Gorham, Me" (handwritten)
2503
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
19 1/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1097
Gorham (Cumberland county, Maine)
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
United States
Machine Printed
Unused
Ochre
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Tropical
Exotic
Leaves
Orchids
Foliate
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