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Fireboard

Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

Date

1820-1850

GUSN

GUSN-4586

Description

Rectangular fireboard frame of two wide boards running horizontally with breadboard ends; front covered with wallpaper in green, brown and yellow floral pattern with wide floral and segmented border.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
wallpapers
Pine
Unidentified Paper
fireboards (fireplace equipment)
FIREBOARD

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

29.688 x 33.75 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.780

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