Historic New England

Bottle

Small rounded rectangular bottle made of clear glass. The top is rounded. There is a yellow label with balck writing around the entire bottle. The glass on the inside is slightly discolored.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 197862

Accession Number: 2006.44.2427

Vanilla bottle

Small glass bottle with cork plug and sticker label. Label is white with black line detail, eagle detail and red lettering.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), cork (bark)

GUSN: 197863

Accession Number: 2006.44.1579A

Quilt

Gray silk quilt with a gray and white design on both sides. Knotted with red, blue and yellow yarn. The edges are bound in red. There is a fold line that runs across the center of the quilt.

Maker: Probably Duncan, Caroline, 1800-1893 (Sewer (textile worker))

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 197864

Accession Number: 2006.44.485

Wire brush

Long wire brush. The brush is black and forms to a point at the end. The handle is metal and twisted with a loop at the end to be able to hang up the brush.

Maker: unknown

Material: bristle, metal

GUSN: 197865

Accession Number: 2006.44.2524

Woven wool rug with a center panel with a blue ground and a repeating design of a large rosette with multi-colored diamond in the center flaked by orange beetles. In each corner of the design there is a large red palm. There are rows of multi-colored crosses that separate each repetition of the desi...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 197867

Accession Number: 2006.44.486

Long wire brush

Long wire brush with wooden handle. The metal between the handle and the brsuh is twisted. The handle is black wood and there is a hook on the end so that it can be hung up. The brush is black and oval shaped all the way down.

Maker: unknown

Material: primary wood, metal, bristle

GUSN: 197868

Accession Number: 2006.44.2523

Vanilla bottle box

Small box for vanilla bottle. White box with black line detail and black print. Black box detail with white print, details of coins and an eagle. The box is included in a set of 3 along with the Bottle (a) and a coupon (c). Coupon in included in other file

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard

GUSN: 197869

Accession Number: 2006.44.1579B

Tacks

Small wooden square with a yellow label on top with black writing. On the back of the wooden square is a 5x5 grid of copper tacks that are numbered 26-50 with 5 tacks missing.

Maker: unknown

Material: copper (metal), primary wood

GUSN: 197870

Accession Number: 2006.44.2429

Rug

Woven wool rug. The center panel contains rows of red tulips on a dark brown ground. The stems of each tulip are connected to the tulip above and below. There are three small borders. The inner and outer borders are multi-colored squares and geometric key shapes. The middle border has ivory and red ...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 197871

Accession Number: 2006.44.487

Box

Small cardboard box with blue writing. The box is intricaly folded and each side of the box has an advertisement on it.

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard

GUSN: 197872

Accession Number: 2006.44.2513.2

Bergama rug

Woven wool Bergama rug. The center panel has three crescents going down the center. There are multi-colored tulips along the edges of the center panel. The center panel also has rosettes and several rosettes with hooks on each corner and a pitchfork shape coming out of the center. There are six bord...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 197873

Accession Number: 2006.44.488

Tin

Box metal tin with handle and round cap. Sticker label on front. Red with gold trim and a white round center with blue lettering. Company seal of a lions and an eagle in gold.

Maker: S.S. Pierce Co.

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 197875

Accession Number: 2006.44.1583

Shiraz rug

Woven wool Shiraz rug. The center panel contains eight large diamonds. Each diamond contains two palms and various shaped rosettes. The field around the diamonds contains small rosettes, weeping willows, birds, and two large palms on each end. There are three borders. The inner and outer borders con...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 197876

Accession Number: 2006.44.489

Box

Small cardboard box with blue writing. The box is intricaly folded and each side of the box has an advertisement on it.

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard

GUSN: 197877

Accession Number: 2006.44.2513.1

Box

Small cardboard box with blue writing. The box is intricaly folded and each side of the box has an advertisement on it.

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard

GUSN: 197878

Accession Number: 2006.44.2512

Rug

Woven wool rug. The center panel contains a seven sided medallion with a pink field. The design consists of diamonds and rosettes connected by leaf shapes or lines. There are three borders. The inner and the outer borders are blue with alternating rosettes and s-shapes. The middle border is ivory an...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 197879

Accession Number: 2006.44.490

Yeast foam Box

Small cardboard white and red box with white and red lettering. Yellow oval in center with writing.

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard

GUSN: 197880

Accession Number: 2006.44.1574

Runner

Woven wool hall runner with the center panel containing sixty-seven rows of botehs alternating by a row of ten then a row of eleven on a red field. there are six borders. The first border on the outer edge and the fifth border have a red field with connecting green leaf shapes. The second and the fo...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 197881

Accession Number: 2006.44.491

Vacuum

Metal vacuum cleaner that is red and copper and wood. The red paint is worn and scratched off in some areas. It is long and round with a square base.

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, primary wood

GUSN: 197883

Accession Number: 2006.44.2428

Rug

Floral medallion woven wool rug. The center medallion is surrounded by rosettes and flowering vines. There are six borders separated by solid bands of maroon. The sixth, innermost border, is a blue latch-hook design on an ivory ground. The first and fifth borders are orange and red rosettes on a mea...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 197884

Accession Number: 2006.44.492

Tray

White lobbed ceramic tray with decorative trim imprint

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 197885

Accession Number: 2006.44.1604

Kurdish rug

Woven wool Kurdish rug. The center panel has a yellow eight-pointed star in the center. The star is in the center of an aqua rosette. There is a yellow rosette at each corner of the star. There is a tree of life design at each end of the center panel. In each corner are diamond shapes with triangle ...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 197886

Accession Number: 2006.44.493

Wastebasket

Wicker wastebasket. The basket is brown with a few spots where the paint is wearing off and a few areas where the wicker is breaking and coming unweaved. The bottom of the basket is woven very tightly and then it is an open weave with a few cross overs forming pointed arches. The top goes back to th...

Maker: unknown

Material: wicker

GUSN: 197887

Accession Number: 2006.44.2521

Mold

Yellow ceramic gelatin mold. Shaped indents and corn shaped indent detail.

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 197888

Accession Number: 2006.44.1605

Dust pan

A dark brown dust tray with two gold stripes at the top. In the middle of the two gold stripes is a yellow and red floral design that has swirling green leaves and vines. Forming the handle is an empty tube that can hold a brush to use with the dust pan. There is a lot of wear on the dut pan top and...

Maker: unknown

Material: metal

GUSN: 197889

Accession Number: 2006.44.2522.1

Egg carrier

Wooden egg carrier with thin metal handle. Three wood planks on both top and bottom. Black printed text on sides. Opens on hinges.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 197890

Accession Number: 2006.44.1606

Brush

Medium sized brush to go with a dust pan. It must have once been red at one point but most of the paint has been worn off. The bristles are tan on the outside and blakc on the inside. The brush itself is made out of wood.

Maker: unknown

Material: bristle, primary wood

GUSN: 197891

Accession Number: 2006.44.2522.2

Cabistan rug

Woven wool Cabistan rug. in the center panel is a pole medallion containing crosses, rosettes, windows, and y-shaped trees. The field outside the medallion has multi-colored botehs. There is a diamond and spiked T design going down both sides. There are four borders. Three borders are small latch-ho...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 197893

Accession Number: 2006.44.508

Toilet tissue

"The Statler Flat Toilet Tissue" product is a blue thin cardboard box that contains sheets of toilet tissue pieces.

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard, tissue paper

GUSN: 199067

Accession Number: 2006.44.2470

Benefacto Linimet

Minilla colored box with black writing on the front. The box is for Benefacto Liniment and is begining to tear on theuppwer right side of the opening flap.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199070

Accession Number: 2006.44.2434

Dyspepsia cure box

Small white box that opens by pushing the lid off over the box. Black writing describes the product and diretions on three sizes of thebox.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199073

Accession Number: 2006.44.2436

Dyspepsia cure box

Small white box that opens by pushing the lid off over the box. Black writing describes the product and diretions on three sizes of the box.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199077

Accession Number: 2006.44.2440

Loxol

Loxol pain expeller liniment box. White box with black writing and imagery. The images are of womanly figures surounding a globe and an anchor. Box top is falling apart and discoloration is occuring on box folds.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199088

Accession Number: 2006.44.2431

Light bulb

Very round light bulb with glas tip at the top of it and a gold colored metal bottom piece. The bulb has three brown sticker inscriptions on it.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), metal

GUSN: 199090

Accession Number: 2006.44.2469

Light bulb

Tear drop shaped light bulb with a small glass tip at the top of it and a gold colored metal base. There are thin wires and fuse pieces in the interior of the bulb.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), metal

GUSN: 199099

Accession Number: 2006.44.2468

Light bulb

Pear shaped light bulb. Gold colored metal bottom with thin wires and fuse pieces. There is a small glass point at the light bulb top.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), metal

GUSN: 199102

Accession Number: 2006.44.2467

Bock YCA cigar box

Wooden cigar box with multiple stickers in Spanish text.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 199116

Accession Number: 2006.44.2465

Print

Photolithograph of the towers of Oxford. The Foreground is tree foliage. The middleground consists of Oxford with two main streets. The background features hills and a large sky. The print has a border with a Latin inscription. There is additional text below the title and a key identifying the build...

Maker: Reproduction of Way, Thomas Robert, 1861-1913 (Artist) Solatia M. Taylor Co. (Framer)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 199123

Accession Number: 2006.44.629

Painting

Small profile portrait painting or a woman wearing a Renaissance style green-blue dress with puffed sleeves. The woman is also wearing a pearl headdress with an aqua feather. She has rings on her fingers and is holding a book. The background is brown. The wood frame is painted gold with carved leaf ...

Maker: unknown

Material: paint (coating), paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 199131

Accession Number: 2006.44.630

Photograph

Black and white photograph of Florlence cathedral. The picture was taken facing the facade with the large dome in back. In the foreground is the Florence bapistry. Mountains and buildings surround the cathedral.The wood frame and stained dark brown.

Maker: Gardner, William H. (Framer)

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 199135

Accession Number: 2006.44.631

Throw pillow

Small square sage green pillow. Sewn swirly and wavy design all surrounding a triangle in the center.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199139

Accession Number: 2006.44.2504

Portrait of Jane Appleton Phillips

Oil painting on canvas portrait of Jane Appleton Phillips. She has brown eyes and brown hair that is parted down the middle and tied back with a piece of red fabric. She is wearing a white shawl around her shoulders and a multi-colored dress. The background is a cloudy mountain scene. The wood frame...

Date: 1837

Maker: Putnam, David A (Painter)

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

GUSN: 199141

Accession Number: 2006.44.632

Tablecloth

Off white and discolored table cloth with crocheted pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 199142

Accession Number: 2006.44.2506

Tablecloth

Off white and discolored table cloth with crocheted design.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 199147

Accession Number: 2006.44.2507

Tablecloth

Large off white and discolored tablecloth with crocheted detail.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 199149

Accession Number: 2006.44.2508

Sheet

White discolored sheet.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 199151

Accession Number: 2006.44.2505

Little Boy Whittling

Oil painting on canvas of a little boy whittling. The boy is seated and is wearing a straw hat, red bow tie, a white collared gray suit, and red and gray striped socks. He has brown hair and is actively whittling. In the background is a toy ship. The painting is signed in the bottom right corner. Th...

Maker: J.C. Lowery (Framer)

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

GUSN: 199153

Accession Number: 2006.44.633

Lampshade

Glass lampshade. Basic round opening, no design.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 199157

Accession Number: 2006.44.2499

Lampshade

Glass lampshade with ridging vertically placed that comes to a point at the opening of the shade.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 199167

Accession Number: 2006.44.2500

Lampshade

Bulbous glass lampshade with soft ridging down its suface vertically.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 199170

Accession Number: 2006.44.2498

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