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.