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Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Parker Hill" pattern which was produced by both Katzenbach and Warren and Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. Wallpaper has large-scale pattern of highly stylized sprays of flowers and foliage. Roller-printed in two blues, yellow, two purples, and gray-green on a light green ground. Pattern is based on an American block-printed wallpaper dating from 1825-1835 that was found in the circa 1832 James Parker House in Shirley, Massachusetts.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Parker Hill
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Associated With James Parker House,
Possibly Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)
Possibly Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. (Manufacturer)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
19 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.870
Shirley (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Boston
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.760.1-.5
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.703
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.704
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.707
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.708
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.709
Title Textile Remnant "Parker Hill" Accession Number 2001.281.1235
Machine Printed
Unused
Lt. Green
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
flowers
foliage
Floral
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