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| Wallpaper uncovered during renovation of Ladies Aid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wallpaper uncovered during renovation of Ladies Aid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Wallpaper, uncovered behind old cabinets during renovation of Ladies Aid building, July 2000. Green and gold and tan textured pattern on paper. (See also 2000.79.568 (A) and (C) from the nearby Dowling/Meyers house; same pattern but with linen backing.) | |||
| Wallpaper on plasterboard, circular remnant Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wallpaper on plasterboard, circular remnant Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Wallpaper on plasterboard, circular remnant from Selim house with circle for the stovepipe of a Glenwood N cooking stove cut out of center. Deep red wallpaper with floral design. Pertinent to the early 19th-century cape house study underway 2014 (part of the parsonage house shoes project (see 2015.304.2062). The house was moved across Cranberry Road from its early 19th-c location ca.1944. Plasterboard/drywall with paper on both faces with no felt layers began ca. 1910-1930 in U.S. Mickey Macfarlan recalls this house was dragged and winched with a capstan using a big tree stump. Charles "Bunny" Storey worked all summer relocating the house and dynamiting the new site. He could hear the rock debris falling down. [show more] | |||
| Wallpaper remnants Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wallpaper remnants Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Wallpaper, three remnants of wallpaper (A), (B), and (C), from the Dowling/Meyers house recovered from under the floor during renovations in 2000. (This house was previously owned by Edith Drury and Sam Chapman and dates to ca. 1840.) Remnant A: (10" L x 5.5" W) the top layer is a beige, textured felt-like daffodil-and-leaf pattern of yellow, red, blue, brown, and green with a striped border piece applied at one edge. One corner lifts up to reveal two earlier layers of wallpaper. The middle (second) layer is yellowish-green with gold lines. The bottom (third) layer is a bright greenish wallpaper pattern on linen backing. (The bottom layer of Remnant A matches Remnant C and the middle layer of Remnant B.) Remnant B: (9.5 L x 3.5" W) is the same as the top layer of Remnant A, and has one sub-layer visible at corner. This sub-layer is a greenish tan pattern of plants on paper with linen backing and matches Remnant C. Remnant C: (11" L x 5" W) is a green and gold clover, flower, fleur-de-lis, textured pattern with linen backing. There are no sublayers on Remnant C. (See 1000.27.734 for matching wall paper from the nearby Ladies Aid building.) [show more] |