Name/Title
Wallpaper Sample, Birge & Sons, 611-1Entry/Object ID
1976.1.4Description
ACC. NO. 76.1.4
SUBJECT CATEGORY: HOMES OF ALAMEDA
DATE OR PERIOD: EARLY 1900
OBJECT: WALLPAPER SAMPLE
DESCRIPTION: WALLPAPER PATTERN BROKEN INTO PRINTED SECTIONS OF FLOWERED MEDALLIONS, RESEMBLING OLD FASHIONED SILK SASH RIBBON. THE FLOWERS ARE IN PALE ORANGE, LEAVES OF PALE GREEN EACH SECTION OF THE PATTERN IS BROKEN BY A LINE OF PALE BABY BLUE. THE WHOLE DESIGN IS ACCENTUATED IN A GREEN GOLD, SIGNED ON BORDER, BIRGE & SONS, 611-l SIZE: 32" 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
1523 MOZART ST, ALAMEDA
DATE: JAN 24, 1976
