Tag: Shadows from the Walls of Death

Wallpaper samples from R. C. Kedzie’s 1874 work “Shadows from the Walls of Death.” Lovely colors but filled with arsenic which was used in the green dyes.

Pale green wallpaper with gold motifs. 1874. Image 23 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadows
Wallpaper. 1874. Image 31 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadows
Wallpaper. 1874. Image 35 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadows
Wallpaper design with pink and white flowers. Wallpaper. 1874. Image 37 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadows
Wallpaper with white flowers and mauve leaves.Wallpaper. 1874. Image 59 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadows
Star design wallpaper in red and green. Wallpaper with white flowers and mauve leaves.Wallpaper. 1874. Image 111 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadows