Wallpaper

Object Name:

Wallpaper

Object ID:

1966.043.26 a-b

Creator:

A U. W. P. C of N. A. F / LManufacturer

Date:

circa 1900

Description:

Wallpaper, two 36" border strips of light tan background. a. large pink roses, gray, green, brown, and blue leaves. Designs outlined in black. Medium tan paper. At bottom of border printed over tan background, black line, space, gold line, space, black line, wide green line, space, black line, then wide space filled with alternating dashes and colors separated from each other. Above that, black line, space, and then thin gold line and thin black line. Lines described so far except for green have small gap every 18.75" Gap in gold and black lines are 18.75". Above last black line, area 1.7" wide that contains fanciful, geometric shapes, blue, pink, white, black, and gold. These consists mostly of vertical and horizontal lines that are connected together in some places. These are printed over tan background so there is a background presence behind this area. Overlapping this in some places, is part of the repeat of the large floral design that is predominant element of the border. Large blossoms of pink, white, black, green, gold. Interspersed with that are smaller pink blossoms. Many of light-colored, white, pink, and occasional brown are all vertical line segments. Leaves of brown and white. Other leaves of blue, white, pink, and brown. Black lines used to help delineate the leaf shapes. Background lines also used to delineate leaf and blossom shapes. Pattern repeat: 18.75". Almost touching top of large floral block, gold line and black line. Along edge of flowers, continuous black line that delineates top edge of all floral pattern. Top edges also perforated roughly along same line as black line. Distance from bottom black line to top black line: 7.35". Green gilt on black border. Pattern repeated in near mirror image in opposite edge of paper. Space between black lines at top and each of borders: 2". Space between bottom black line and edge of paper: 1.3". Repetitive color test pattern at bottom edge of paper. Consists of 10 small gray circles in a line. Color in or near each one of these circles. Below them, near their midpoint, looks to be another circle with many colors printed on it. This registration area repeated every 18.75". At top edge of paper, border 1.3" wide. Written on it in green, san-serif: "M. 11 4107 C", then two lines of text in small geometric shape at each end: "A (part of geometric ) U. W. P. C. of N. A. (geometric shape) F / O (geometric shape) UNION -- MADE (geometric shape) L". Following that, another multi-colored big dot. Then pattern repeats as before: 18.75". On back, a little of background color has seeped over edge.
b. Design same as a.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-19.4 W-35.9 inches

Credit Line:

Gift of Calvin L. Tucker