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Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Wilton Toile" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company. Chicago. Wallpaper has a large scenic pattern imitating a toile textile. A series of rural vignettes are shown including: a seated couple with a child, a group picking apples, a thatched roof animal shelter over a cow and a goat, chickens, and sheaves of grain. Roller-printed in two greens, two browns, black and pale gray on a yellow ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
scenic wallpapers
Wallpaper
Wilton Toile
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Warner Company (Manufacturer)
Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
20 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.857
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.710
Title Textile Remnant "Wilton Toile" Accession Number 2001.281.1215.1-.3
Machine Printed
Unused
Yellow
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
pastoral
Paper
people
pastoral scenes
cows
chickens
goats
apples
Scenery Figure
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