Name/Title
Wallpaper Sample, Cresswell & Washburn, Phila, 1890Entry/Object ID
1976.1.8Description
ACC. NO. 76.1.8
SUBJECT CATEGORY: HOMES OF ALAMEDA
DATE OR PERIOD: 1890
OBJECT: WALLPAPER SAMPLE
DESCRIPTION: MULTI FLOWERED DESIGN CONSISTING OF CLUSTERS OF FLOWERS WITH LEAFY BRANCHES, ON A YELLOW BACKGROUND. THE LEAVES AND BRANCHES ARE IN A GREENISH GOLD, FLOWERS IN A RUST RED. SIGNED ON BORDER EDGE, CRESSWELL & WASHBURN, PHILA, 0.865.
SIZE: (OF SAMPLE) 34" x 20"
HISTORY OF OBJECT: THIS WALLPAPER WAS FOUND IN THE ATTIC OF 1523 MOZART STREET, ALAMEDA. A VICTORIAN EASTLAKE STYLE COTTAGE. BUILT IN 1885, FOR OTTO BREMER, A SAN FRANCISCO GUNSMITH, BY DENIS STRAUB, BUILDER, ALAMEDA. DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO THE NEWSOM BROTHERS, ARCHITECTS, SAN FRANCISCO. IN 1913 THE PROPERTY WAS SOLD TO OSCAR BUSSE & FAMILY AND OCCUPIED BY THEM UNTIL 1975
ACQUIRED FROM: NICK & TINA PARODI
DATE: JAN 24, 1976
