Levine Parlour
Wallpaper
1998 (designed), 1998 (manufactured)
1998 (designed), 1998 (manufactured)
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| Place of origin |
This wallpaper is a reproduction of a paper found at 97 Orchard Street, New York (now the Tenement Museum). This building was home to hundreds of impoverished immigrant families, mostly from Europe, from 1863 when it was built, until 1935 when new building regulations forced out the remaining tenants. Wallpaper was one of the cheapest and easiest ways to personalise a living space so it was common for new tenants to re-paper; an excavation of the building (begun in 1994) found up to 22 layers of wallpaper in some of the rooms. Several of these papers (including this one, and E.829-2002) were reproduced by the American wallpaper manufacturer Scalamandré for their 'Historic Collection'. This paper has been used in the Tenement Museum in the reconstruction of the Levine family apartment.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Levine Parlour (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Screenprint on paper |
| Brief description | Portion of wallpaper reproduced from an original fragment found in the Tenement Museum, New York, 1998. |
| Physical description | Portion of wallpaper with Rococo-style pattern printed in shades of green and cream, with untrimmed borders lettered with production details, etc. |
| Dimensions |
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| Marks and inscriptions | [R]eproduction hand printed design (Lettered in selvage) |
| Credit line | Given by Abby Cronin |
| Summary | This wallpaper is a reproduction of a paper found at 97 Orchard Street, New York (now the Tenement Museum). This building was home to hundreds of impoverished immigrant families, mostly from Europe, from 1863 when it was built, until 1935 when new building regulations forced out the remaining tenants. Wallpaper was one of the cheapest and easiest ways to personalise a living space so it was common for new tenants to re-paper; an excavation of the building (begun in 1994) found up to 22 layers of wallpaper in some of the rooms. Several of these papers (including this one, and E.829-2002) were reproduced by the American wallpaper manufacturer Scalamandré for their 'Historic Collection'. This paper has been used in the Tenement Museum in the reconstruction of the Levine family apartment. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.830-2002 |
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| Record created | September 2, 2002 |
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