Update Our ticketing, donations, and membership sales portal is down for scheduled maintenance on the afternoon of 4/11.
Wallpaper attached to wallboard from East Sandwich, Massachusetts. Wallpaper block-printed in green with a large-scale meandering floral vine pattern on ungrounded, handmade paper. Board is painted blue-gray on back.
wallpapers
wallboard
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"E. Sandwich Mass" (handwritten)
"Old paper from / Herman Thomas house / 1740? / Water St./ Sandwich" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
46 1/2 x 13 1/4 x 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1206
1835-1845 (Date of wallpaper)
Block Printed
Wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Floral vine
Floral Trail
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].
Sign up to our newsletter for our latest news and events
