Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sample Book (USA), 1948

  Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

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  Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

  Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

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  Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27

  Selection of designs with the strong colors and contrasts of the mid-twenties with examples of large bold design and small figured patterns. Samples are bound in boards. Gilt lettering. The…

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  Sample Book, Wallpaper by Denst and Soderlund, 1952–53

  Includes, with color alternates, the following wallpapers: Trees, Twine, Broken Ladder, Checks, Round, The River, Deep Water, Lakatoi, Dandelion, Chameleon, Intracte, Singora Sail, Talisman. The book is setup to show…

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  Sample Book, Sculptured Wallcovering, 1951

  Samples of wallpaper imitating brick walls, straw matting, stone walls, wood grain, etc., in three-dimensional plastic.

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  Sample Book (Japan), 1927

  Paper-bound book with tipped-in color plates with textile designs, textile samples and painting. Some text in Japanese. Translation of main heading: “Two Great current in Vogue, and Standardizing Colors for…

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  Sample Book (France), 1935–38

  43 examples of wallpaper, some of which have color alternates. 8 have border and chair rail schemes attached. Included are designs in the style of the late 18th century and…

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  Manufacturer’s Sample (USA), ca. 1953

  Small sample of white fiberglass printed in an abstract design in bright green.

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  Manufacturer’s Sample (USA), mid-20th century

  White ground printed in black and gray in a pattern of frost flowers.

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  Manufacturer’s Sample (USA), ca. 1953

  Small sample with a white ground printed in blue and silver design of frost flowers.