Historic New England

Doll's chemise

White with short sleeves

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 1137

Accession Number: 1969.6791

Doll's muff

White with pink trim and tassels. Also lined in pink

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 1138

Accession Number: 1969.6792

Doll's bonnet

Quilted and taupe

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: quilting, silk (textile)

GUSN: 1139

Accession Number: 1969.6793

Doll's bonnet

Pink with tassels

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: knitting (process), wool (textile)

GUSN: 1140

Accession Number: 1969.6794

Doll's petticoat

White, quilted to the waist, and eyelet-edged hem

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), quilting

GUSN: 1141

Accession Number: 1969.6795

Doll's underskirt

Yellow stitching

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), wool (textile)

GUSN: 1142

Accession Number: 1969.6796

Doll's jacket

Flared shape, grey

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), wool (textile)

GUSN: 1143

Accession Number: 1969.6797

Doll's dress

Red stripes and pink abstract pattern on white background. Sleeves are puffy

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), gauze, lace (needlework)

GUSN: 1144

Accession Number: 1969.6798

Doll's dress

Ivory background with brown polka dots. Brown braid is trim.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework)

GUSN: 1145

Accession Number: 1969.6799

Doll's dress

Ivory background with brown flower pattern, ivory rick-rack trim

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework)

GUSN: 1146

Accession Number: 1969.6800

doll's blouse

Light green background with brown, blue, red and green polka dots, green ribbon trim

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), silk (textile), wool (textile)

GUSN: 1147

Accession Number: 1969.6801.1

doll's skirt

Light green background with brown, blue, red, and green polka dots, with green ribbon trim

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), silk (textile), wool (textile)

GUSN: 1148

Accession Number: 1969.6801.2

doll's blouse

Smock-like style, short sleeved, fastens at neck with ties. Lavender(varying shades) dots and stripes on white

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 1149

Accession Number: 1969.6802

doll's shoe

Small blue with blue flower

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: leather, silk (textile), wool (textile)

GUSN: 1150

Accession Number: 1969.6803

Doll's cape

Red with simulalted ermine edge

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 1151

Accession Number: 1969.6804

Doll's Dress

Smock shaped, gathered at neckband. Pagoda sleeves. Purple dots and checks on white. Gold ribbon at neck

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 1152

Accession Number: 1969.6805

doll's socks

One pair white

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: knitting (process), wool (textile)

GUSN: 1153

Accession Number: 1969.6806

doll's shawl

Pink center, grey and white checked edging, long grey, white and pink tassels

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: knitting (process), wool (textile)

GUSN: 1154

Accession Number: 1969.6807

doll's pantaloons

White with eyelet trim

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 1155

Accession Number: 1969.6808

doll's dress

Black and lavender criss-cross pattern on white background. Elbow length sleeves

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 1156

Accession Number: 1969.6809

doll's cape

Brown

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), silk (textile)

GUSN: 1157

Accession Number: 1969.6810

doll's apron

Black with blue trim

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 1158

Accession Number: 1969.6811

Doll's skirt

Pink and dark pink abstrackt snowflake-like pattern on white background

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 1159

Accession Number: 1969.6812

doll's skirt

Double-flounced with horizontal bands of pink white, black, checked black and white. Gathered to waistband. Lined with brown and black net.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), net (textile), silk (textile)

GUSN: 1160

Accession Number: 1969.6813

Warming Pot

A squat bulbous form with flaring rim and bail handle that is raised on three legs. The body is cast with two narrow horizontal bands.

Date: 1760-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: casting (process), iron (metal)

GUSN: 2464

Accession Number: 1991.489

Warming Pot with Lid

A round, squat form that tapers to the base and three short legs. It has a bail handle with a hanging ring and a fitted cover with a handle.

Date: 1780-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 2465

Accession Number: 1991.490AB

Warming Pot

A squat, round form with a slightly flaring rim. It tapers to the base and is raised on three short legs. It has a bail handle .

Date: 1780-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 2466

Accession Number: 1991.491

Of rectangular form with a green-beige border enclosed on a beige field with a spray of pink and peach colored roses with pale green, bottle green and olive leaves. The floral spray is a raised "Waldoboro" type. It is bound in brown cotton woven tape and lined with evenweave beige cotton.

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, clipping (trimming), cotton (textile), hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 2467

Accession Number: 1991.492

Document Box

A painted box with a moveable brass handle on the domed top. The box has worked sheet tin with rolled edges. The floral motif is painted in yellow, black and gray. It has an unpainted bottom and a locking hasp.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), painting (coating), sheet metal, tin (metal)

GUSN: 2468

Accession Number: 1991.493

Camphene Lamp

A glass lamp for sperm-oil, although it is now electrified. It has a pressed heart pattern in the front and a heavy 6 sided base. It has a metal ring on the top. It is now electrified with a "modern" bulb, pleated paper and plastic shade.

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: glassblowing, glass (material), pressing

GUSN: 2469

Accession Number: 1991.494

Porringer

A pewter porringer with "flower" handle and narrow rim.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: Possibly Lee, Richard (Maker)

Material: casting (process), pewter (tin alloy), tin alloy

GUSN: 2470

Accession Number: 1991.495

Tablecloth

Of rectangular form, a check-plaid pattern woven in blue/white/rose-pink threads. It has a handstitched hem.

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), weaving

GUSN: 2471

Accession Number: 1991.496

Snuff Box

A small round tortise shell trinket box. Its top is mounted with a silver band and painted with a view of "Sir William Johnson's House of 1733" in a detailed polychrome painting.

Date: 1760-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: handmade, incising, oil paint (paint), printing (process), sterling silver, tortoise shell, silver (metal)

GUSN: 2472

Accession Number: 1991.497AB

Punch Ladle

A punch ladel with an oval silver cup and a long, narrow twisted baleen handle, with a silver tip to the handle.

Date: 1760-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: baleen, silver (metal)

GUSN: 2473

Accession Number: 1991.499

Charger

Bristol delftware charger, with scalloped edge and deep, curved well, displaying Bianco-Sopa-Bianco decoration and chinoiserie landscape to center in underglaze blue, [illeg.] purple and some overglaze yellow.

Date: 1750-1770

Maker: unknown

Material: delftware, earthenware, molding (forming), glazing (coating), tin glaze, oxidation, tin (metal)

GUSN: 2474

Accession Number: 1991.500

Punch Bowl

Large English delfware punch bowl with tapered sides, curved at the bottom on a straight foot. The outside is covered with a manganese powder souffle' decoration and six quatrefoil reserves with underglaze floral motifs. Inside, there is a floral motif in the center medallion and a diaper/reserve pa...

Date: 1735-1755

Maker: unknown

Material: delftware, earthenware, throwing (pottery technique), glazing (coating), tin glaze, underglazing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 2475

Accession Number: 1991.501

Game Board

Pine game board, of rounded square form, carved with geometric patterns of grooves and indentations (both sides carved). It holds a collection of colored clay marbles. The wood is unfinished.

Date: 1775-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), clay, pine (wood)

GUSN: 2476

Accession Number: 1991.502

Box of Dominoes

A wooden box with a sliding cover with a thumbnail pull, enclosing 28 black and white wooden dominoes. The box is small and has dovetailed corners.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, wood (plant material), paint (coating)

GUSN: 2477

Accession Number: 1991.503

Coat of Arms

A coat-of-arms centering a gold shield with lion rampant on a checkerboard band, surmounted by a helmet and leafy mantling, and a bannerette with inscriptions below. The watercolor has worked in colors of red, gray, blue, black and white. Also, gold pigment and ink on paper. It has an original "Hoga...

Date: 1785-1795

Maker: Attributed to Searle, George, Mr. (Maker) Attributed to Cowan, Robert, Mr. (Maker)

Material: gesso, ink, painting (coating), paper (fiber product), pine (wood), sand, watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2478

Accession Number: 1991.504

Whampoa with the Vessels of Different Nations Trading to Canton

Small rectangular format, with foreground landscape and numerous vessels flying British, Dutch and American flags in the middle distance before a mountain landscape with two temples in the distant background. It has the original bevel-shaped profile frame with gilded inner molding.

Date: dated 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2479

Accession Number: 1991.505.1

The American Ship Victory

Large, almost square format with a broadside view of the ship Victory at Whampoa. There are junks and other vessels nearby, with hills in the background. In original black carved Chinese frame with gold liner.

Date: 1850

Maker: Namcheong (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2480

Accession Number: 1991.506

Royal Coat of Arms

Coat-of-arms of Great Britian and Ireland. Royal arms of King George III carved in pine. The shield is enclosed in a garter with the motto of the Order of the Garter. Arms quartered: England impaling Scotland, France, Ireland; Brunswick impaling Lunenburg, a base point of Saxony, an escutcheon of Ha...

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: Chandler, Winthrop, 1747-1790 (Maker)

Material: carving (processes), varnishing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2481

Accession Number: 1991.507

Acorn Mantel Clock

No description

Date: 1847-1860

Maker: Possibly Forestville Manufacturing Co. (Maker)

Material: glass (material), brass (alloy)

GUSN: 2482

Accession Number: 1991.509

Portrait of Anthony Waterman

Of rectangular format, portrait of a man, half length and facing slightly to the right. He has light brown hair that hangs long at the sides and his bangs over his forehead and brown eyes. He wears a high collar with a bow stock. It is in its original carved gold frame.

Date: dated 1798

Maker: Von Lyman, J. F. C. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2483

Accession Number: 1991.508

Portrait of a Minister

Large, rectangular format picture of a clergyman, shown half-length, facing right, with tabs and a black coat. He is wearing a white fitted wig. He has a full, ruddy face with a double chin and blue eyes. He holds white fabric in his hands (perhaps sugggesting baptismal, or other professional duties...

Date: September 8, 1789

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, paper (fiber product), oil pastels, pine (wood)

GUSN: 2484

Accession Number: 1991.510.1

Carpet

No description

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), knotting, wool (textile)

GUSN: 2485

Accession Number: 1991.511

Cape

A hand-sewn man's red and green plaid cape made of stiff wool and a carded stand-up collar. There are two floral carved buttons at the neck edge. It has side plackets for easy walking, and a lining of red wool in two shades.

Date: 1775-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: hand sewing, lining (process), linen (material), wool (textile)

GUSN: 2486

Accession Number: 1991.512

Cape

A hand-sewn red, green and blue plaid woman's cape with a tan lining. It has a lined collar and small shoulder cape attached. The lining is soft and fine (possibly cotton woven with silk?)

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), wool (textile)

GUSN: 2487

Accession Number: 1991.513

Shoulder Cape

A hand-sewn shoulder cape in red, green and black linen and lined in green. There is a hook and eye at the neck along with fabric tape for tying.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material)

GUSN: 2488

Accession Number: 1991.514

Portrait of a Cape Ann Builder

Rectangular format, bust length portrait of a man with black hair, gray eyes, pleated shirt and dark coat and vest; facing right side of painting; holds carpenter's plane in right hand; medium brown background; window view at right side of painting, showing a pitched roof yellow house with white tri...

Date: 1848

Maker: Wiggin, Alfred J. (Maker) Adams, J. J. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2489

Accession Number: 1991.515

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