Four small fragments of the first layer of wallpaper removed from the stairway of the cellar leading up to the dining room of the Shirley-Eustis House, Roxbury, Massachusetts. The wallpaper is roller-printed in black, red, brown, white and green on ungrounded paper. Possibly Anglo-Japanese pattern.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Unidentified Paper
Wallpaper
Original To Shirley-Eustis House (Roxbury, Mass.), Stairway
Unknown
Museum Accession
1971.144.1
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Machine Printed
Wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Anglo-Japanese
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