Historic New England

Roll of Ribbon

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: ribbon (material)

GUSN: 11281

Accession Number: 1917.931

Roll of Ribbon

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: ribbon (material)

GUSN: 11282

Accession Number: 1917.932

Roll of Ribbon

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: ribbon (material)

GUSN: 11283

Accession Number: 1917.933

Roll of ribbon

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: ribbon (material)

GUSN: 11284

Accession Number: 1917.937

Cloth Fragment

Piece of black cotton tape.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 11285

Accession Number: 1917.938

Sugar Bowl Lid

The domed rectangular cover has a flower blossom knop and a mount printed with a floral motif.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, incising, molding (forming), transfer printing

GUSN: 11286

Accession Number: 1991.1025B

Box

Home-made.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11287

Accession Number: 1917.949

Artificial Flower

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11288

Accession Number: 1917.950

Artificial Flower

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11289

Accession Number: 1917.951

Artificial Flower

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11290

Accession Number: 1917.952

Cloth Fragment

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, homemade

GUSN: 11291

Accession Number: 1917.958

Hairnet

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11292

Accession Number: 1917.959

Portrait of a Woman

Rectangular, vertical format portrait of a seated woman, three-quarter length. Companion portrait to Cyrus French. She is wearing a shawl and cap.

Date: 1786

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 11293

Accession Number: 1991.1041.2

A pair of crude trestles with wood branches for supporting poles, which are minimally curved and pegged into the cross bar- a square rough pine piece. The wooden crossbars are 2" square, between the legs at the base it is 17 1/2".

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood)

GUSN: 11295

Accession Number: 1991.1049.2

Book

No description

Date: 1810-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11296

Accession Number: 1917.965

Taper

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11299

Accession Number: 1917.971

Ticket

Ticket to Boston Exhibition.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11300

Accession Number: 1917.966

Ticket

Ticket to Boston Exhibition.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11301

Accession Number: 1917.967

Rubber Fragment

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11302

Accession Number: 1917.972

Portrait of Lucy Cogswell Burnham (1813-1879)

This portrait of a seated woman with corkscrew curls, black hair, dark eyes and facing slightly to her right is one of a pair. She is wearing a black dress with a lace-edged collar, and a gold-framed hair brooch pinned to her bodice. She wears a white-edged black shawl off her left shoulder, and her...

Date: 1849

Maker: Wiggin, Alfred J. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 11303

Accession Number: 1991.972.2

A Calm

One of two. A small rectangular format print of marine subjects; labeled below the image in large letters, A CALM. In turn, under this in small letters is another inscription. The picture depicts a harbor with numerous boats, clipper/sail/rowing; in the background are rolling green hills. In the imm...

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: Possibly Fuirburn, J. (Maker)

Material: hand coloring, ink, paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 11304

Accession Number: 1991.1652.1

A Storm

One of two. A small rectangular format print of marine subjects; labeled below the image in large letters, A STORM. In turn, under this in small letters is another inscription. The scene depicts a wind-swept sky, a stormy green sea tossing a large clipper ship with a union jack side to the left. On ...

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: Possibly Fuirburn, J. (Maker)

Material: hand coloring, ink, paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 11305

Accession Number: 1991.1652.2

Picture of a Bird

Of rectangular format, of a bird composed of feathers. A brown and white flecked bird, with grey painted legs and beak, the eye of cut-out paper; it is standing on a jutting rock in a minimally sketched island of landscape. The land scape consists of a patch of grassy area, a white flower at the rig...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: feather (material), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 11306

Accession Number: 1991.1653.1

Picture of a Bird

Of rectangular format, of a bird composed of feathers. A bird with a blue head and neck and a brown body flecked with blue and green-brown. The birds stands in a small oval of landscape, the mirror of 1991.1653.1, except that instead of pines there is a sinuous tree with four feathery, leaf laden br...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: feather (material), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 11307

Accession Number: 1991.1653.2

Painted Tavern Sign

Round of wood with two half-moon landscapes of romantic scenes, with lettering in gold leaf, in two pink painted billiard balls. The wooden edge is painted green. The upper scene is of a castle and manor house with a female figure in the landscape. The lower scene depicts a farmer in a village cotta...

Date: 1859

Maker: unknown

Material: mica (mineral), oil paint (paint), panels (wood), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 11308

Accession Number: 1991.1655

Painting

A rectangular format landscape scene, with a river containing sailboats and one rowboat. On the banks of the river at in the foreground is a road leading into the picture and a grove of trees at the center, with a tall tree and cabin at the right, and a cliff to the left. In the middle ground is a s...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: Possibly Bradey (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 11309

Accession Number: 1991.1656

Bed

It has "sleigh bed" form head and foot boards with rolled top rail and eurolinen uprights with oval feet enclosing rectangular panels. It is painted a creamy white/grey and heightened with decorative blue pinstriping and corner scrolled devices centering a polychrome floral spray. It has shaped side...

Date: 1835-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: hardwood, painting (coating)

GUSN: 11310

Accession Number: 1991.1657

Architectural Panels

Pair of relief carvings consisting of crossed flaming torches and fasces encircled by a laural and oak wreath tied with a bow knot. Enframed in a 4" molding. Painted all over in white.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: Attributed to McIntire, Samuel, 1757-1811 (Maker)

Material: carving (processes), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 11311

Accession Number: 1991.1658.1-2

Framed Cogswell's Grant Sign

A rectangular, vertical format sign. It is painted white with black molding on two lateral edges, with white ground with black letters, on two separate boards.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), wood (plant material), stenciling

GUSN: 11312

Accession Number: 1991.1659

Wide Pine Board

Wide pine board; painted with landscape; dovetailed on either end.

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), painting (coating), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 11313

Accession Number: 1991.1661

Ox Yoke

A heavy serpentine horizontal element pieced with two shaved inverted "U" shaped hoops, which are held in place with carved pins. Wrought iron hardware is at the center of the yoke.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), iron (metal), shaving (process), wrought

GUSN: 11314

Accession Number: 1991.1660

Settee

Rod back settee with bamboo-turned styles, spindles, armrests, arm supports, ten legs and box stretchers. Plank seat with a incised line painted canary yellow.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: hardwood, painting (coating), pine (wood), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 11315

Accession Number: 1991.1662

Corner Cupboard

Corner cupboard. Pine, paint. Flat top with arched fascia over three shelves and a lower section with a single "H" hinged door. It is raised on a straight rectangular foot, which is grain painted yellow and brown. (The cupboard is built in with no back.)

Date: 1750-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 11316

Accession Number: 1991.1663

Nail

No description

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 10959

Accession Number: 1994.58

Nail

T-head.

Date: 1800

Maker: White, John (Maker)

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 10960

Accession Number: 1994.57

Nail

One with wide round head.

Date: 1825

Maker: Heath, Chas. (Maker)

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 10961

Accession Number: 1994.59

Nail

Cut nails; wrought heads (one rosehead, one T)

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

Material: cutting (dividing), iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 10962

Accession Number: 1994.60.1

Nail

Cut nails; wrought heads (one rosehead, one T)

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

Material: cutting (dividing), iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 10963

Accession Number: 1994.60.2

Nail

Rosehead.

Date: 1800

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 10964

Accession Number: 1994.61

Nail

Cut nail.

Date: 1795-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cutting (dividing), iron (metal)

GUSN: 10965

Accession Number: 1994.62

Nail

Rosehead.

Date: 1800

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 10966

Accession Number: 1994.63

Wattle and Daub

No description

Date: 1600-1699

Maker: unknown

Material: clay, straw (plant material)

GUSN: 10967

Accession Number: 1994.66

Peg

No description

Date: ca. 1825

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 10968

Accession Number: 1994.67.1

Peg

No description

Date: ca. 1825

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 10969

Accession Number: 1994.67.2

Peg

No description

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 10970

Accession Number: 1994.68

Peg

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 10971

Accession Number: 1994.69

Peg

No description

Date: ca. 1809

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 10972

Accession Number: 1994.70

Pintle

No description

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 10973

Accession Number: 1994.71.1

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