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Object Timeline

1920

  • Work on this object ended.

1973

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2024

  • You found it!

Sidewall (USA)

This is a sidewall. It was manufactured by York Card & Paper Co.. It is dated 1885–1920 and we acquired it in 1973. Its medium is machine-printed paper, liquid mica. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Sylvia Goodrich. It is credited Gift of Sylvia Goodrich in memory of her grandparents, Orlando R. and Elizabeth Boyd Ballou.

Its dimensions are

39 x 49 cm (15 3/8 x 19 5/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in right selvedge: "York Card & Paper Co."

Cite this object as

Sidewall (USA); Manufactured by York Card & Paper Co.; machine-printed paper, liquid mica; 39 x 49 cm (15 3/8 x 19 5/16 in.); Gift of Sylvia Goodrich in memory of her grandparents, Orlando R. and Elizabeth Boyd Ballou; 1973-32-1-a,b

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