Photograph of Scenic Wallpaper by Zuber et Cie (July 2016)

Title

Photograph of Scenic Wallpaper by Zuber et Cie (July 2016)

Description

This wallpaper by Zuber et Cie was first created around 1830 using hundreds of woodblocks. It depicts various scenes from America, based off French travelogues. It also has racist scenes, with blacks depicted from racist caricatures.

Creator

Banks III, Jesse

Source

Digital copy created by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage

Date

2016-07

Contributor

Lena Bohman

Rights

Rights Status not Evaluated

Citation

Banks III, Jesse, “Photograph of Scenic Wallpaper by Zuber et Cie (July 2016),” Digital Tours of The Nightingale-Brown House , accessed November 3, 2025, https://cds.library.brown.edu/NBHouse/items/show/92.

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