Wallpaper
- Object Name:
- Wallpaper
- Object ID:
- 1961.032.07 a-b
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Wallpaper, floral, two pieces. Strips of wallpaper or border. Drab background with brick-red stripes, stylized flowers of yellow, turquoise, black, and white. Along one edge, plain strip 0.4" wide of unprinted paper. On back of sheet, six parallel, fine red continuous lines ~1.6" apart. These narrow red lines match the long, straight lines along one edge of the repeat pattern on front. Also on back, a few random areas of short red lines that correspond with the small red areas in center of five yellow-petal blossoms in front design. On front, narrow, unprinted stripes between patterns. On one side of each of patterns of repeat is a wide brick-red stripe; on it are black rectangles connected by single black line. Black rectangles have small white dot within them.
.b Additional information written on back in pencil: "Half Way house, Roper Place on Mt. Wachusett". Adhesive label, "61.32 G / early 19th / Roper House / Mt. Wachusett". - Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-9.8 W-36.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Taken from Halfway House, Roper Place on Mount Wachusett, MA.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gardner L. King
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