Historic New England

Nightgown

Long sleeveless peach silk nightgown. The neckline is a v-shaped and is bordered by three narrow bands of thicker peach silk connected together and attached to the dress by decorative stitching. At the V the bands of silk are woven together and then continue on down forming an oval or teardrop shape...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 191354

Accession Number: 2006.44.1379

Shawl

Long rectangular beige net shawl with geometric gold metal details. At both end of the shawl there are rows of geometric detailing including triangles, dots, Christmas tree shapes and more triangles. Down the center of the shawl are diamonds of alternating sizes that have a diamond shaped grid patte...

Maker: unknown

Material: net (textile), metal

GUSN: 191355

Accession Number: 2006.44.1360

Shawl

Green silk square shawl with long fringe. The center is a large square with rounded corners. There is a wide border around all four sides made from green silk threads intertwined into diamond shapes with knots at all four points. At the four corners of the shawl, the decorative threads are more clos...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber)

GUSN: 191360

Accession Number: 2006.44.1362

Women's hat

Women's straw hat. Hat is made of natural, woven straw. It has a brim all the way around the crown that is slightly upturned. The crown has a rounded top on the right side and is indented around the top left side. There is a leaf decoration around the top edge of the crown that extends up onto the t...

Maker: unknown

Material: straw (plant material), silk (textile), net (textile), ribbon (material)

GUSN: 191361

Accession Number: 2006.44.1380

Shawl

Square shaped striped silk shawl with tassels. The ivory ground of the shawl is patterned with alternating narrow and wide multi-colored stripes. Four of the widest stripes have multicolored patterned centers. The left and of the shawl has eight multicolored tassels, the right end has seven.

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber)

GUSN: 191362

Accession Number: 2006.44.1363

Women's hat

Women's black straw hat. The hat has a slightly rounded crown on top and its brim is folded up in the back and is stitched tot he side of the crown. The straw is black and shiny and is stiff. The brim is edged with a narrow border of black silk that wraps underneath the brim. Around the bottom of th...

Maker: Lamson and Hubbard Company (Manufacturer)

Material: straw (plant material), ribbon (material), silk (textile)

GUSN: 191365

Accession Number: 2006.44.1381

Shawl

Long rectangular shaped black silk crepe shawl with stenciled silver floral designs at each end. There are three small flowers stenciled evenly in the center of the shawl. The silver paint bled through the thin crepe so both sides of the shawl are identical.

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber), paint (coating)

GUSN: 191366

Accession Number: 2006.44.1364

Shawl

Rectangular black lace shawl with two printed and embroidered paisley panels in the center. The black lace has a floral and leaf design. The paisley panels have a multi-colored printed background with portions of the printed sections embellished with multicolored embroidery. Because of the embroider...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber), embroidery (visual works)

GUSN: 191369

Accession Number: 2006.44.1365

Petticoat

Cream muslin petticoat with drawstring waist and scalloped embroidered hem. The upper portion of the petticoat is plain with no decoration. The lower section of the petticoat has a ruffled under-layer and tiny embroidered flowers along the scalloped edge of the top layer. The back of the petticoat h...

Maker: Madeira House (Manufacturer)

Material: muslin

GUSN: 191373

Accession Number: 2006.44.1366

Women's hat

Women's black velvet tri-corn hat. The hat has a rounded crown and soft brim that is attached on both sides and in the back giving it the tri corn style. On the left side there is a decorative element made from black cording. There is a silver dollar sized circle that is open with velvet in the cent...

Date: 1910-1940

Maker: Lamson and Hubbard Company (Manufacturer)

Material: velvet (fabric weave)

GUSN: 191374

Accession Number: 2006.44.1382

Nightgown

Peach silk sleeveless nightgown. The nightgown reaches just below knees with a-line shape. The body of the gown is a lighter shade of peach, while there are details in darker shiny peach silk. There are two bands of silk running vertically from the straps down to just below the waist, ending in a pa...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber)

GUSN: 191376

Accession Number: 2006.44.1367.1

Women's hat

Women's black felt hat. The hat has a medium-high crown that is circular and creased two thirds of the way around the top. Around the front half of the side of the crow, the felt has diagonal decorative ribbing. On the left side of the crown the material extends back in a gathered decorative wing. T...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: felt (textile)

GUSN: 191379

Accession Number: 2006.44.1383

Bed jacket

Dark peach silk bed jacket. The bed jacket is short sleeves and is short in length. The front is open and has a long silk tie attached to either side in the middle for closure. The ties are of uneven length. Around all the edges of the jacket there is a border of lighter peach silk with cording deta...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber)

GUSN: 191382

Accession Number: 2006.44.1367.2

Women's hat

Small brown women's hat. The hat is made of an unidentifiable scratchy brown material with an open weave. The hat is a beanie style. There is a wide band of the same brown material encircling the hat that has vertical, evenly spaced ribbing extending three-fourths of the way down the band. This band...

Maker: unknown

Material: velvet (fabric weave), clay, netting (process), ribbon (material)

GUSN: 191383

Accession Number: 2006.44.1388

Women's hat

Womens purple straw hat. The hat has a shallow crown with a rounded top and a brim that runs two thirds of the way around the hat. Around the brim there is a border attached to the sides of the crown. The border is made up of velvet violets in various shades of purple with yellow and green plastic ...

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: Jonas (Manufacturer)

Material: straw (plant material), velvet (fabric weave)

GUSN: 191384

Accession Number: 2006.44.1384

Women's hat

Women's Chinese silk hat with embroidered flowers. The hat has no brim, a high crown with straight sides and a slightly rounded top. The top is made of gray brocaded silk with a pleated strip running across the middle. The sides of the crown are made of the same gray silk, but have colorful embroide...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), netting (process), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 191386

Accession Number: 2006.44.1389

Shawl

Long black lace shawl. The shawl is rectangular in shape but it does have a wide shallow V-shape cut out of the top with the rough edges hemmed. All the remaining edges are scalloped, created by alternating roses and other floral designs. Inside of those designs are paisley designs with more flowers...

Maker: unknown

Material: lace (needlework)

GUSN: 191387

Accession Number: 2006.44.1368

Shawl

White silk shawl with floral embroidery. The shawl is triangular and is bordered by long white silk fringe on the bottom two edges leading to the point of the triangle. On the body of the shawl there is a wide area of colorful floral embroidery tracing the same bottom two sides. There are vines and ...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber)

GUSN: 191389

Accession Number: 2006.44.1369

Women's hat

Womens fur hat. The fur is probably sable or of the sable family and is long with various shades of dark brown, shiny hairs and a lighter brown under fur. The hat is rounded like a bowler hat and has a brim that is turned up all the way around it. The inside lined in black silk and ahs a black labe...

Maker: Jackson & Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: fur, silk (textile)

GUSN: 191390

Accession Number: 2006.44.1390

Women's hat

Womens brown straw hat. The hat has a shallow crown with a round top. There is a brim around the hat and at the back the brim is folded up and attached to the crown. The entire top of the hat is covered by a fine copper netting that has heavy threads of copper done is squiggles and curly cues aroun...

Maker: Lamson and Hubbard Company (Retailer) Chapeaux Bellemode (Manufacturer)

Material: straw (plant material), net (textile)

GUSN: 191391

Accession Number: 2006.44.1385

Women's bonnet

Women's straw bonnet with buckram liner and two detached straw brims. The back piece of the bonnet has finely woven straw. This head piece has a flat circular back and the front is shaped to a square. The underside has a curve cut out to accommodate the neck. There is a narrow straw border attached ...

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: straw (plant material), buckram

GUSN: 191393

Accession Number: 2006.44.1393

Bodice

Ornate black taffeta bodice. The neckline is very high and has a wrap around taffeta piece that extends down to the center of the bodice into a crepe insert. The insert ends at a taffeta, pleated v-shaped belt that attaches to the left side with three hook and eye enclosures. The wrap around neck pi...

Maker: unknown

Material: taffeta, silk (textile), crepe (textile), lace (needlework), rope

GUSN: 191394

Accession Number: 2006.44.1394

Sheet Music, "No, I will sign no more"

Single-sheet folded in half (two pages); title and music with lyrics on first page; music and lyrics on second page; stamps at bottom of first page.

Date: 1830s

Maker: Donizetti, Gaetano (Composer) Blake, G. E. (Publisher) Hewitt & Co. (Vendor)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, printing (process)

GUSN: 191398

Accession Number: 2005.23.17

Women's bonnet

Women's white cotton bonnet. The main part of the bonnet is made from a thin white cotton fabric with a repeating pattern of large squares with smaller squares inside of them. There is a seam that starts from the front and runs down the middle and back of the head and to the neckline. There is a bor...

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 191399

Accession Number: 2006.44.1391

Women's hat

Black womens hat. The hat has a tall crown with a circular top. The top and part of the sides of the crown are black felt while the bottom half of the crown and the wide circular brim are black velvet. The velvet around the crown is slightly gathered horizontally. The brim gets narrower and curls u...

Date: 1890-1930

Maker: L.P. Hollander & Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: velvet (fabric weave), felt (textile), feather (material), silk (textile)

GUSN: 191400

Accession Number: 2006.44.1386

Women's bonnet

Women's knit bonnet. The bonnet is knit with peach and turquoise wool yarn with stripes alternating horizontally and vertically. It has a long flap from the chin to the neck or shoulder area. The back of the bonnet gathers together in the back and at the center of the gather there is a blue silk bow...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (hair), yarn, silk (fiber), ribbon (material)

GUSN: 191402

Accession Number: 2006.44.1392

Demitasse saucer

Porcelain demitasse saucer with a white body and a raspberry and gold banded rim.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Ch Pillivuyt & Cie (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191913

Accession Number: 2006.44.3093.58

Platter

Porcelain oval platter with gilt vine decoration on a raspberry border.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Charles Field Haviland Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191914

Accession Number: 2006.44.1960.106

Demitasse saucer

Porcelain demitasse saucer with a white body and a raspberry and gold banded rim.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Ch Pillivuyt & Cie (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191915

Accession Number: 2006.44.3093.60

Demitasse cup

Porcelain Demitasse cup with a white body and a raspberry and gold banded rim with a monogrammed "P".

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Ch Pillivuyt & Cie (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191916

Accession Number: 2006.44.3093.43

Platter

Porcelain oval platter with gilt vine decoration on a raspberry border.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Charles Field Haviland Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191917

Accession Number: 2006.44.1960.105

Demitasse cup

Porcelain Demitasse cup with a white body and a raspberry and gold banded rim with a monogrammed "P".

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Ch Pillivuyt & Cie (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191918

Accession Number: 2006.44.3093.46

Demitasse cup

Porcelain Demitasse cup with a white body and a raspberry and gold banded rim with a monogrammed "P".

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Ch Pillivuyt & Cie (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191919

Accession Number: 2006.44.3093.45

Demitasse cup

Porcelain Demitasse cup with a white body and a raspberry and gold banded rim with a monogrammed "P".

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Ch Pillivuyt & Cie (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191920

Accession Number: 2006.44.3093.47

Demitasse cup

Porcelain Demitasse cup with a white body and a raspberry and gold banded rim with a monogrammed "P".

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Ch Pillivuyt & Cie (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191922

Accession Number: 2006.44.3093.41

Demitasse cup

Porcelain Demitasse cup with a white body and a raspberry and gold banded rim with a monogrammed "P".

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Ch Pillivuyt & Cie (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191925

Accession Number: 2006.44.3093.44

Demitasse cup

Porcelain Demitasse cup with a white body and a raspberry and gold banded rim with a monogrammed "P".

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Ch Pillivuyt & Cie (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191927

Accession Number: 2006.44.3093.42

Stephen W. Phillips

Framed photograph of Stephen W. Phillips in his library at 34 Chestnut Street. He is seated in a chair facing left with his legs crossed. He is holding a book and is dressed in a suit and tie with his head turned toward the viewer. Behind him is a fireplace.

Date: ca. 1918

Maker: unknown

Material: photographic paper

GUSN: 191952

Accession Number: 2006.44.892

Decoy

Wooden seagull painted white wiht grey and black folded wings and orange beak and eyes; partial chain attached to front underside.

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), paint (coating), metal, carving (processes)

GUSN: 193707

Accession Number: 2003.1.1

Buddha Figurine

Green aventurine Buddha figurine with a pointed cap and sitting on a pedestal.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: aventurine (quartz), carving (processes)

GUSN: 193712

Accession Number: 2003.1.2

Teacup and Saucer

White pearlware with blue Staffordshire transfer print showing image of the Boston State House with a field and cows in the foreground; teacup has a squared handle; saucer has floral border.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 193716

Accession Number: 2003.1.3AB

Shot Glass

Clear shot glass with multi-colored glass at the bottom (blue, pink, yellow, white) forming a floral pattern; top of glass flares out at rim.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: blown glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 193719

Accession Number: 2003.1.4

Seashell

Silver, half clamshell with half moon stand on verso

Date: 1950

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 193722

Accession Number: 2003.1.5

Wine glass

Clear glass; smooth surface; funnel-shaped; air bubbles at top of stem.

Date: Late 18th Century

Maker: unknown

Material: blown glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 193725

Accession Number: 2003.1.6

Clamshell

Nested half clamshell

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 193729

Accession Number: 2003.1.7

Pair of utensil holders

Pair of bird shaped utensil holders carved from a gourd. Curved legs hang over edge of bowl, bead eyes.

Maker: unknown

Material: gourd, beads (pierced objects)

GUSN: 193837

Accession Number: 2006.44.1740

Utensil holder

Bird shaped utensil holder carved from a gourd. Curved legs hang over edge of bowl, base of utensil sits inside bird's body. Pair of small white bead eyes and simple carved wing decoration.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 193838

Accession Number: 2006.44.1740.1

Utensil holder

Bird shaped utensil holder carved from a gourd. Curved legs hang over edge of bowl, base of utensil sits inside bird's body. Small bead eyes, left eye is a red bead, right eye is white. Simple carved wing decoration.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 193845

Accession Number: 2006.44.1740.2