Historic New England

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a linked chain design, eight teeth.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103035

Accession Number: 1928.256

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a row of roundels with small pierced stars, nine teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103036

Accession Number: 1928.936

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell side comb with a carved and pierced top featuring an abstract scroll of foliage design, fifty-two teeth (two missing)

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103037

Accession Number: 1928.937

Set of Hair Combs

Three tortoiseshell side combs, two big one small, all feature a serpentine shaped top with a border of carved balls, all have twenty-three teeth.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103038

Accession Number: 1935.250a-c

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a serpentine shaped top, twelve teeth.

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103039

Accession Number: 1930.1687

Hair Comb

This tortoiseshell back comb is decorated with a carved and pierced top featuring a scrolled trellis design with foliage.

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103040

Accession Number: 1931.1579

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a double loop design, nine teeth (two missing)

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103041

Accession Number: 1934.1225

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced round top featuring a vine of grape bunches and leaves, eleven teeth (three missing)

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103042

Accession Number: 1934.1226

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a continuous loop design, eight teeth (two missing).

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103043

Accession Number: 1934.1227

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a twisted foliate scroll design, ten teeth.

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103044

Accession Number: 1936.816

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a berry and leaf design, dyed with red stripes to imitate tortoiseshell, two teeth.

Date: 1820-50

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material), carving (processes), dyeing

GUSN: 103045

Accession Number: 1935.1037

Hair Comb

Celluloid back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring two rows of a baluster design, eight teeth.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103046

Accession Number: 1935.1038

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a curved carved and pierced top featuring a scrolling floral design, seven teeth.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103047

Accession Number: 1935.1531

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell side comb with a pierced and carved top featuring a scrolling foliate design, thirty-two teeth (one missing).

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103048

Accession Number: 1935.1532

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a pointed crown design, eight teeth (two missing).

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103049

Accession Number: 1935.1535

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell side comb with a carved and pierced featuring a design of five abstract foliate bunches, multiple small teeth (many missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103050

Accession Number: 1936.474

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with round carved and pierced top featuring a scrolling vine with grape bunches and flowers, eight teeth.

Date: 1825-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103051

Accession Number: 1936.475

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb carved in a continuous loop design.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103052

Accession Number: 1936.476

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a round carved and pierced top featuring a floral and leaf design, six teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material)

GUSN: 103053

Accession Number: 1936.880

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a curved carved and pierced top featuring an abstract three dimensional scroll design, ten teeth.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103054

Accession Number: 1938.941

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top with a three dimensional twisted scroll design, nine teeth.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103055

Accession Number: 1938.942

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with carved flutes and a scalloped edged top, seven teeth.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103056

Accession Number: 1940.585

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with seven ovals at top each inlaid in center with a silver sprig of grape leaves and a bunch of gold grapes and surrounded by a gold piqué posé wave border, eight teeth.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 103057

Accession Number: 1941.1113

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a double row of scrolling foliage, thirteen teeth.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103058

Accession Number: 1943.652

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring five abstract leaves, seven teeth.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material)

GUSN: 103059

Accession Number: 1943.654

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a curved continuous chain, eight teeth.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103060

Accession Number: 1944.175

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a three dimensional coil design, eleven teeth.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103061

Accession Number: 1945.29

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a plain round top and seven teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material)

GUSN: 103062

Accession Number: 2008.4.6

Hair Comb

Black vulcanite back comb with openwork top and jagged edge, eight teeth.

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103063

Accession Number: 1946.491

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a row of pierced crescent moons at top, seven teeth.

Date: 1830-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103064

Accession Number: 1946.492

Wallpaper Fragment

Wallpaper fragment with pink dense pattern featuring various flowers and foliage and animals including deer, boar, gazelles, birds, and man holding a rabbit all on a dark brown ground.

Date: ca. 1960

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103321

Accession Number: 2006.30.6

Wallpaper Roll

Roll of wallpaper with sprays of fern leaves, feathers and blue and pink flowers on a peach ground.

Date: 1935-1945

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103322

Accession Number: 2006.30.7

Wallpaper Roll

Roll of wallpaper with nine columns of pink roses, chains of purple flowers, and silver lines on white ground.

Date: 1940-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103324

Accession Number: 2006.30.8

Wallpaper Roll

Unused roll of wallpaper. Stripes embellished with flowers and foliage alternating with overlapping chains of white flowers, framing roses, all on a gray-blue ground.

Date: 1940-1950

Maker: United Wallpaper Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103325

Accession Number: 2006.30.9

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Three different harbor scenes featuring green buildings with red roofs, each framed with scrolling foliate borders on tan ground.

Date: 1950-1955

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103327

Accession Number: 2006.30.10

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Sprays of green, pink and white flowers on green ground.

Date: 1945-1955

Maker: J.C. Eisenhart Wall Paper Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103329

Accession Number: 2006.30.11

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Lime green, light and dark pink flowers with sprays of green and gray foliage on tan ground.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: Sears, Roebuck and Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103331

Accession Number: 2006.30.12

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pink roses with green foliage on cream ground.

Date: 1935-1955

Maker: J.C. Eisenhart Wall Paper Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103333

Accession Number: 2006.30.13

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Light and dark red open roses with green foliage on cream ground.

Date: 1945-1955

Maker: Vogue Wallcoverings (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103334

Accession Number: 2006.30.14

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. All over diaper design of stylized roses and foliage in imitation of brocade in white on a gold ground.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103335

Accession Number: 2006.30.15

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pink stylized tulips with green leaves on a tan ground with brown patterned vertical stripes.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103336

Accession Number: 2006.30.16

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Stylized bunches of white and pink flowers with green foliage on green ground.

Date: 1950-1955

Maker: United Wall Paper Factories, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103337

Accession Number: 2006.30.17

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. White stylized flowers with dark purple accents on sage green ground.

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Louis W. Bowen, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103338

Accession Number: 2006.30.18

Unused roll of wallpaper. Two repeating scenes, one of the Parthenon and a ionic column in pink and white surrounded by green foliage, the other is of an urn on a pedestal in pink and white surrounded by green foliage, all on a rust-rose ground.

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103339

Accession Number: 2006.30.19

Wallpaper Roll

Unused roll of wallpaper. Dark grey scrolled trellis framing an abstract garden scene in green and yellow on cream ground.

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Louis W. Bowen, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103341

Accession Number: 2006.30.20

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Green and blue speckled scrolling foliate pattern on a white textured ground.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103342

Accession Number: 2006.43

Young Boy's Tunic

White cotton and lace boy's tunic. Cotton sailor style collar with eyelet lace accent and trim, long sleeves, four button holes down front, three round white stone buttons remain. White cotton matching tie belt.

Date: ca. 1903

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 103343

Accession Number: 2007.14.2AB