Wallpaper
- Object Name:
- Wallpaper
- Object ID:
- 1976.002
- Date:
- 1850-1950
- Description:
- Wallpaper. Red and green bird on branch. Green leaves and red berries.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-10 W-23.7 inches
- Provenance:
- From manuscript collection donated to New Hampshire Historical Society. Note, once attached to wallpaper, now with manuscripts, stated, in pencil, "2 (sic), Sept./(sic) 76/ this wallpaper sample/came in the Pierce-Purvis /collection (accession #76-2-/ Mary & Susan Pierce-/ guessing a sample for/ a room in the Hillsboro/house/Jean (Johnson)." In pen, was added "perhaps 20th centurey (?)/ JFP (John F. Page)." Manuscripts originally owned by Mary and Susan Pierce, Franklin Pierce's grandnieces who lived with the donor for a while. For more information, see Accession File 1976.2 (located in box 5 of Franklin Pierce papers, Accession 1929.1) in manuscripts.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Ir. A. P. Piereon
- People:
- Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869)
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