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The rectangular gray blackboard is mounted with a conforming sheet of printed and embossed paper showing a white heron standing on a branch. The ground and tree are printed in blues in Japanese style brushwork. Two printed off-white calender pages for November and December 1908 remain stitched to the backboard. It hangs from a ring paper tab at the top.
calendars
cardboard
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
heron
Japanese
numerals
Cardboard
Unidentified Paper
Transfer Printed
Numbers
Heron
Japanese
CALENDAR
Embossed on the hanging loop/ring is: Dennison. Printed on the calender pages is black on off-white pages for Nov./Dec. 1908.
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Possibly Dennison Mfg. Co. (Maker)
Boston, MA, USA
9.5 x 4.25 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.1163
Massachusetts (United States)
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