Unused wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Green and black stripe elements and floral sprigs on a honeycomb background. Block-printed in green and black on white polished ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
stripes
Wallpaper
"Mrs. Woodward / Middleton / Alma's cousin" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
19 x 16 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.431
United States
Block Printed
Polished
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Machine Made
Stripe
Sprig
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