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Three fragments of wallboard with attached striped wallpaper from Monmouth, Maine. The wallboard fragments fit together length-wise with half lap splice joints. Cut nail fragments are present in the boards. One side of the boards are painted or stained red. The wallpaper is affixed over the paint or stain. The wallpaper has a striped pattern of fretwork with trefoils alternating with a meandering vine with birds and berries. The paper is roller-printed in two blues, two greens, ochre, orange, brown, and two yellows on tan ground.
wallpapers
wallboard
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
metal
stripes
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Monmouth / Maine" (Is written on each board, either front or back with pen or pencil.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
12 1/4 x 20 x 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1205A-C
1870-1880 (Date of wallpaper)
Monmouth (Kennebec county, Maine)
Probably United States
Machine Printed
Wall fragment
Tan
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Birds
Berries
Meandering vine
Scrolls
Trefoil
Fretwork
Floral Stripe
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