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Rolled fragment of floral wallpaper from the parlor of the William H. Greeley Homestead, New Gloucester, Maine. Wallpaper is second layer of two. First layer is still affixed. All-over floral of groups of planted stylized flowers. Roller-printed in metallic gold, black, peach and pale green on brown ground. This paper was still on the wall of the home's parlor in 1979.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"This w.p. is now on the parlor wall of the Wm Greeley house in New Gloucester, Maine + is lovely" ((See also, letter from Dorothy Waterouse about her visit to the Wm. Greeley house. In object file).)
Greeley, Mr.
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To William H. Greeley Homestead,
Unknown
United States
29 x 18 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1112.2
New Gloucester (Cumberland county, Maine)
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.1112.1
Machine Printed
Wall fragment
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized flowers
Floral
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