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Seven wooden window shade rods with attached fragments of shade paper. 2001.281.1199.1-.3 have green paper affixed to them. 2001.281.1199.4-.6 have light blue paper affixed to them that is roller-printed in white with a geometric pattern of six-sided stars formed by dots and edged on either side with leaf and circle pattern. 2001.281.1199.7 is covered with a paper roller-printed with an indeterminate pattern in white, brown and green on blue ground.
roller shades
rods (object genre)
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Shade
"Philip Kimball / E Lebanon, Me" (handwritten)
"From 18th century / house in Maine / used for window shade rods?" (Written by Dorothy Waterhouse.)
Kimball, Philip, Mr.
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1199.1.-.7
East Lebanon (York county, Maine)
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