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Layer of wallpaper (.1) with border (.2). Removed from the second floor right rear room of the Shirley-Eustis House, Roxbury, Massachusetts. Two fragments of wallpaper (.1) with a circular swirl pattern roller-printed in yellow, blue, white on gray ground. "Wm. H. Mairs & Co. / 1836" printed in selvedge. Wallpaper border (.2) printed with pattern of leaves and flowers spilling over a stripe resembling ceramic tile blocks. Paper is embossed with square pattern.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Unidentified Paper
Wallpaper
"Wm H. Mairs & Co./2 Rolls/1836" (Printed in selvedge.)
1836
Original To Shirley-Eustis House (Roxbury, Mass.), 2nd Floor Room
968.80.6
Mairs, William H. (Manufacturer)
Museum Accession
1968.80.6.1-.2
Brooklyn (New York City, New York state) [borough]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1971.141.4
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1971.144.3
Machine Printed
Wall fragment
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Paper
Geometric
Floral
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