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Sheathing, unfinished on both sides and rabbeted along both edges. Wallpaper fragrments attached. Amorphous design alternating with stylized foliate vine on striped paper. Printed in black, white, and green on blue ground. Straight match. Heavy loss of pigment.
sheathing
wallpapers
boards (flat objects)
walls
wallpapers
wood (plant material)
Wallpaper
Board
Original To Elias Cadwell House,
1959.130
Zechariah Mills (Manufacturer)
12.75 (W) (inches)
Gift of Elmer D. Keith
1959.131
1763 (Board age. Wallpaper date 1802-1807.)
Guilford (New Haven county, Connecticut)
Connecticut (United States)
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1959.130
Title Wallpaper Fragment Accession Number 1967.26
Block Printed
Blue
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Laid
Paper
stripe
amorphous shells?
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