Historic New England

Wallpaper

Border with a meandering vine with large leaves and a variety of flowers. Top and bottom band of a woven band made of crosses, rectangles, and squares. PRinted in gold and black on a pinkish-red ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175852

Accession Number: 1985.26.119

Wallpaper

Scrolling foliage and large flowers with a top and bottom band of bell flowers. Printed in burgundy, mustard, two greens, brown, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175853

Accession Number: 1985.26.120

Wallpaper

Scrolling foliage with large flowers and berries on vene (?). Top and bottom band of stylized floral motifs and cablings. Printed in two pinks, yellow, brown, and pale olive on a grey-brown ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175854

Accession Number: 1985.26.122

Wallpaper

Border with a continuous undulating floral vine with a fan and retangular element with fretwork. Top and bottom band of ogees. Printed teal, light red, red, two greens.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175855

Accession Number: 1985.26.123

Wallpaper

Floral border with daisies and carnations. Bottom band of lunettes with daisies and carnations. Bottom band of lunettes with a stylized small flower inside. Printed in blue, white, yellow, red, pink, black, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175856

Accession Number: 1985.26.124

Wallpaper

Architectural moldings including bead and reel, modillions, rosettes, and dentils. Printed in grisialle (white and greys) with tan.

Date: 1865-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175857

Accession Number: 1985.26.125

Wallpaper

Border of connected continuous circles. Inside a rope in the circular shape with a daisy in the center. Thin vertical lines over pattern. Printed in red and two mauves, two greens, two blues, ochre,, grey, and taupe, on a beige ground.

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175858

Accession Number: 1985.26.126

Wallpaper

Border with stylized upright flowers. Framed by jagged yet linear lines and accured flowering branch. Painted in dark fushia, teal, dark grey, 2 browns, and gold on a dark grey ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175859

Accession Number: 1985.26.128

Wallpaper

Border of continuous scrolling foliage with daffodils, roses or peonies. Top and bottom band of a single row of scales. Printed in two reds, yellow, two browns, tan, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175860

Accession Number: 1985.26.130

Wallpaper

Large floral vine with petals with scalloped edges. Top and bottom bands of stylized palmettes. Painted in pale blue, pink, cream, gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175861

Accession Number: 1985.26.131

Wallpaper

A meandering rose vine with butterflies on a background of fret work and stylized shell forms. Printed in three pinks, brown, three greens, silver, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175862

Accession Number: 1985.26.132

Wallpaper

A border of stylized flowers in geometric pots, pine motifs and a top and bottom band of rosettes in a diaper pattern. Printed in blue, green, red, brown, gold, and soft orange.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175863

Accession Number: 1985.26.134

Wallpaper

Floral border with a top and bottom band of a diaper pattern with stylized flowers. Printed in blue, two browns, gold, beige, taupe, and burgundy flock on a yellow-beige ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175864

Accession Number: 1985.26.135

Wallpaper

Naturalistic border with swallows with tree blossoms printed in two pinks, gold, beige, brown, two blues, and two blues on brown ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175865

Accession Number: 1985.26.136

Wallpaper

Aesthetic style border with branches of flowers like spider mums. Printed in light blue, light pink, light brown, and gold. Printed height is 9-1\4. In printed width box, appear 9-1\4 h --LP

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175866

Accession Number: 1985.26.137

Wallpaper

Swirling and scrolling foliage with flowers. Bands of three leaf clover shapes. Printed in yellow, taupe, brown, gold, metallic copper, and aqua.

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175867

Accession Number: 1985.26.139

Wallpaper

Border with branches of dense foliage, roses, and daisies. Top and bottom band of shells or lunettes. Printed in crimson, peach, cream, gold, white.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175868

Accession Number: 1985.26.141

Wallpaper

Floral border with peonies and a bottom band of stylized flowers. printed in two reds, black, white, yellow, and gold on a light olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175869

Accession Number: 1985.26.143

Wallpaper

Floral border. Roses with foliage. Bottom band of lines with dots on the end. Printed in three pinks, green, brown, yellow-orange, gold on light olive background.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175870

Accession Number: 1985.26.144

Wallpaper

Floral border with a continuous vine of roses with bands of cabling. printed in yellow, orange, beige, red, three greens, maroon and gold on a taupe background.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175871

Accession Number: 1985.26.145

Wallpaper

Floral border with roses, daisies. Printed in three greens, two greys, brown,light brown and gold on a green-cream ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175872

Accession Number: 1985.26.146

Wallpaper

Floral border with carnations and roses. Top band of single a single band of chevrons and bottom band of squares. Printed in white, red, olive, black, yello and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175873

Accession Number: 1985.26.147

Wallpaper

Aesthetic border with a continuous vine of stylized passion flowers winding through asymmetrical lattice. Printed in red, cream, two greens, black, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175874

Accession Number: 1985.26.149

Wallpaper Border

NeoClassical border with a central urn flanked by cornucopias, floral swags, and ribbon. Bands of beading. Printed in beige, tan, brown on ribbed paper. Mauve background color.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175875

Accession Number: 1985.26.150

Wallpaper

Continuous guilloche-like pattern with floral branches and ginko leaves and then vertical stripes with the background printed in two blues, brown, two greys, white and gold.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175876

Accession Number: 1985.26.151

Wallpaper

Undulating branch with leaves and flowers. Top and bottom band of bead moldings. Printed in pale blue, pink and green, gold, sand, taupe, on a light beige ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175877

Accession Number: 1985.26.152

Wallpaper

Floral border with C scrolls or strap work with atop band of cable (?) molding. Printed in green flock, two browns an tan . Straight match (crossed out).

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175878

Accession Number: 1985.26.153

Wallpaper

Floral border with a variety of meandering flowers. Bottom band of circles. Printed in cream, red, pink, black, and two greens.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175879

Accession Number: 1985.26.154

Wallpaper

Large flowers and foliage with a top and bottom band of rosettes with curve leaves creating a link. Printed in red, two greens, brown, cream, black and blue on light brown ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175880

Accession Number: 1985.26.155

Wallpaper

Continuous, undulating branch with exotic flowers. Geometric top and bottom band of vertical and horizontal lines. Printed in two reds, two greens, plae aqua, brown and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175881

Accession Number: 1985.26.157

Wallpaper

Unused sample of two borders, attached. Stylized palmette, edged with striped border. Prints in blue, pink, metallic gold, copper and red on light green ground. Honeycombed textured paper. Straight repeat.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176182

Accession Number: 1985.26.600A

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Foreground of roses and cornflowers with rustic trellises in background. Printed in pink, brown, white, tan, taupe, beige, olive green and metallic copper on a yellow, embossed ground.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176183

Accession Number: 1985.26.797

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Foreground of roses and cornflowers with rustic trellises in the background. Printed in pink, salmon, Indian red, maroon, orange, yellow, cream, olive and metallic gold on an ochre ground.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176184

Accession Number: 1985.26.778

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Stylized, entwined vine with clusters of blossoms bordered above and below by geometric foliate elements in triangular frames. Printed in metallic pink, bronze, copper, gold and blue; maroon and olive green on a taupe ingrain paper. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176185

Accession Number: 1985.26.70

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Anglo-Japanese style frieze. Pattern consists of horizontal stripe of stylized anthemion. Second horizonal panel consists of chrysanthemum flower and leaves winding around thin trunk. Printed in red, yellow, metallic copper, metallic green, and metallic gold on olive ground. Straight ...

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176186

Accession Number: 1985.26.533

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Sprays of roses in pink, rose and mauve framed by metallic gold, foliatee c-scrolls draped with rose garlands on a pale pink field and embossed cream colored ground. Straight match.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176187

Accession Number: 1985.26.598A

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Asymmetrical arrangement of medieval trophies, mounted knights, and framed views of canopied courtyards. Printed in pale yellow, pink, green, maroon, light blue and metallic gold on an ochre ground.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176188

Accession Number: 1985.26.68

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating thistles enclosed by serpentine foliage with thorns and thick stems. Printed in green on an olive field on unground paper.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 176189

Accession Number: 1985.26.88

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Meandering and overlapping floral vines. Printed in two reds, pink, tan, light brown, yellow on a light blue ground.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176190

Accession Number: 2000.340

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Imitation woodgrain paneling. Printed in brown, light brown, and cream on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176191

Accession Number: 1985.26.594

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Imitation oak woodgrain paneling comprised of three planks printed in brown on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176192

Accession Number: 1985.26.595

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Imitation pine woodgrain paneling. Printed in brown on unground paper.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176193

Accession Number: 1985.26.591

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating large-scale, pink poppy stems against pale yellow, stylized Queen Anne's lace on an embossed ground. Printed in three pinks, red, yellow, ochre and three greens on a white ground. Drop match.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 176194

Accession Number: 1985.26.76

Wallpaper

Unused sample. All over field of circular interlace ornamented with small, stylized, flowering vine. Printed in olive, white and metallic gold on a pale green ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176195

Accession Number: 1985.26.344

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Rows of vertically repeating, pink water lilies on white, rippled stripes against a green ground with green dashes.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 176196

Accession Number: 1985.26.93

Wallpaper

Unused sapmle of Aesthetic paper. Pattern consists of various vases set among fretwork. Palms, peonies and dogwood blossoms. Prints in blue, grey, two greens, copper, gold block on olive ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176197

Accession Number: 1985.26.817

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large-scale floral urns with palms and flowering plants against a field of oriental lattice filled in with geometric patterns. Printed in two greens, olive green, salmon, rust, metallic gold and brown on a light olive ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176198

Accession Number: 1985.26.63

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Allover design of red blooming roses and rosebuds accented with small, blue flowers. Printed in maroon, crimson, red and cadmium red, brown, tan, green and two blues on a pale green ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176199

Accession Number: 1985.26.731