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Two partial rolls of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LPX1 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has alternating motifs of stylized flowers and palmettes arranged in horizontal rows. Both rolls are screen-printed in blue, black, pink and white on a yellow ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
"I let Reta Hitchcock / use these designs when she started / making wallpaper. Several of them were / originals from the Sylvanus Thayer House / in Braintree. These are / samples of her papers." (Handwritten on verso of 2001.281.891A.)
LPX1
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
20 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.891AB
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.714.2
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.714.4
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.714.3
Screen Print
Unused
Yellow
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
palmettes
stylized flowers
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