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Board fragment with three pieces of attached wallpaper from 1 Carlton Street, Salem, MA. Side one: Wallpaper [a) features ovals in orange and brown (two shades) on ivory ground. Side two:
Wallpaper [b] has brown wide bar diaper pattern on ivory ground (selvage edge has number 184). Wallpaper [c] is a Shakespeare print by Currier and Ives, black with yellow, blue, and pink chalked details (selvage edge has number 663). Both papers on side two were apparently applied with selvedge edges showing.
wallpapers
boards (flat objects)
sheathing
softwood
lithographs
wallpapers
Board
Used At Attic
Unknown
32.5 x 13.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of John Hardy Wright
1986.1186
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Machine Printed
Ivory
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
oval
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