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Partial roll of wallpaper with all-over scroll pattern. Stylized foliate scrolls alternate with floral scrolls. Three scrolls per paper width. Roller-printed in olive, brown, tan, silver liquid mica, peach liquid mica, yellow liquid mica on yellow ground. York Card and Paper Company logo and pattern number 712 printed in selvedge.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
mica (white pigment)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Portland Me" (handwritten)
"York Card & Paper Co. [in banner logo] / 712" (Manufacturer logo and pattern number)
"Victorian - mid 19th century / etc. / many from Salem, Cape Cod, Maine, etc - / I have checked them all + / they can be filed. Not that interesting" (handwritten)
"Almost all late / papers - Victorian, etc / I have checked them / + must press them + put / together in a folder of / later papers" (handwritten)
712
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
York Card & Paper Co. (Manufacturer)
York, Pennsylvania, United States
18 3/8 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1058
1891-1900 (York Card and Paper Co. established 1891.)
Portland (Cumberland county, Maine)
York (York county, Pennsylvania)
Machine Printed
Unused
Yellow
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Scrolls
Foliate
Floral
Floral
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