Historic New England

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Corner section of fresco paper. Plain gray paper. No visible pattern.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178237

Accession Number: 2000.635.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral stripe. Repeating orange flowees alternating with reverse printed white floral vine on a gray ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178238

Accession Number: 2000.637.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Striped with stylized floral ornament alternating with meandering vine. Printed in yellow, orange and black on unground paper.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178239

Accession Number: 2000.637.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover, floral design. Printed in green on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178240

Accession Number: 2000.639.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Striped design. Stylized berries alternating with flowers or foliate vine stripe.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178241

Accession Number: 2000.639.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Losenges framing foliate elements within quatrefoils. Motifs are bisected and half are printed in black, the other half white. Printed on uncut pages from a book.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: Moses Grant Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178242

Accession Number: 2000.639.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover foliate design. Printed in gray and green on white ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178243

Accession Number: 2000.652.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Plaid stripe with coral or seaweed edges bordering whide band of coral or seaweed elements surrounded by concentric ripples. Printed in coral, black and white on a blue ground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178244

Accession Number: 2000.652.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral border. Repeated bunches of flowers "growing" along base line. Printed in maroon, red, orange, olive and black on a tan ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178245

Accession Number: 2000.653

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Continuous eliptical frames enclosing stylized floral elements.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178246

Accession Number: 2000.659.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern formed by small blue and white quatre foils framing larger blue quatre foils within white lozenges. Printed on brown unground paper.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178247

Accession Number: 2000.659.1

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Scenic paper showing peasants at work; feeding geese, washing laundry, cutting hay. Printed in two greens, two browns, tan, blue, pink, and beige on blue/gray paper. Drop repeat.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178248

Accession Number: 1915.117

Unused sample. Landscape scene of rural town with church and mill. Cows drinking from a duck pond in foreground. Printed in four greens, brown, tan, salmon, blue and yellow on unground paper, overprinted with black pin dots.

Date: 1900-1919

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178249

Accession Number: 1919.310

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern in imitation of ironwork with Renaissance mounts and ormolu floral motifs at crossbars. Printed in brown, tan and sienna on a blue field and unground paper.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178250

Accession Number: 1922.1090

Wallpaper

Fragment of floral stripe wallpaper. Pattern consists of four vertical panels; diamond-trellis, stylized leaf with berry leaf and floral. Printed in pink, red, green, black, white on blue ground.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178251

Accession Number: 1923.205

Bandbox

Square, pasteboard bandbox. Landscape figure paper with scene of mother and child in a garden. Son is in a chair with wheels (from a chariot) and mother pulls him along. Block printed in red, varnish green and white on a yellow ground. Strip of Renaissance Revival paper on each side. Border on lid f...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178252

Accession Number: 1923.211AB

Bandbox

Oval, wooden bandbox (A) with lid (B) covered in floral and foliate paper. Pink and white flowers with green leaves. Printed in red, pink, white and two greens on a blue ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178253

Accession Number: 1946.123AB

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Vertical stripes with vertical repeat of stylized floral elements. Background of faint narrow stripes. Printed in red, green, pink, black and brown on a peach ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178254

Accession Number: 1967.118

Wallpaper

Large-scale birds and foliage and vines printed in blue. Paper has tan, irregular, horizontal striations to suggest grass cloth or woodgrain.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178255

Accession Number: 1969.458A-D

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Four spandrels form circular panels of fresco paper or ceiling paper. Corner sprays connected to berried vines with grisaille beaded moulding. Printed in two purples, lavender, red, rose, two pinks, three greens, tan, white and two greys on polished white ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178256

Accession Number: 1971.191

Wallpaper

Fragment. Rainbow paper. Pinecone element sprouting scrolled plumes or foliate forms. Printed in blended red and blue on white ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178257

Accession Number: 1971.196

Wallpaper

Hand blocked border. Gathered net design printed in orange, red and green.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177851

Accession Number: 1969.575.1B

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the General Samuel McClellan House, South Woodstock, Connecticut. Red and pink flowers with green foliage surrounded by grey Rococo scrolls on polished white ground. Straight match.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177852

Accession Number: 1969.575.2

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of wallpaper border block-printed continuous rose vine. Printed in orange, pink, blue and two greens. A second flocked, floral border was installed on top of this one (see 1969.575.2b).

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177853

Accession Number: 1969.575.2a

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of wallpaper border. This is the second border, applied on top of the first, associated with the same sidewall paper (see 1969.575.2 and 1969.575.2a). Trailing white and pink rose vine. Leaves and thorns are flocked in two greens and tan. Vine is entwined by ribbon printed in two blues. Mar...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177854

Accession Number: 1969.575.2b

Wallpaper

Second layer of unseparated wallpaper sample. Alternating circular and octagonal panels framing figural composition, vertical division with stylized anthemia printed in green, white, red and yellow on grey ground.

Date: 1940-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177855

Accession Number: 1971.183.2

Wallpaper

Red and pink tropical birds with red, pink, and white flowers on green and ochre vine with palm-like foliage printed on white ground. (Undecipherable drop or straight match.)

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177856

Accession Number: 1971.183.1

Wallpaper

Block printed drapery paper. Stylized pink and white folds that alternate with green and black folds with ivy vines. Embellished with leaves and dots. Straight match. Printed on yellow ground.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177857

Accession Number: 1969.575.1

Wallpaper Fragment

Wallpaper fragment of partial sheet. Amorphous design, alternating with stylized foliate vine on striped paper. Printed in black, white and green on blue ground. Straight match.

Date: 1802-1807

Maker: Zechariah Mills (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177858

Accession Number: 1967.26

Wallpaper

Fragment. Grey and white marble pattern with maroon and black stripe with pink stylized floral elements.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177859

Accession Number: 1965.1.13

Wallpaper

Fragment. Geometric with some foliate elements printed in grey, white and black on grey ground.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177860

Accession Number: 1965.4.2

Wallpaper

Fragments. Allover daisy sprays with white liquid mica silver stems. Printed in two yellows and white on a beige ground.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: Howell & Brothers (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177861

Accession Number: 1965.4.12

Wallpaper

Fragments of imitation carved strapwork printed in two browns, ochre and black framing reverse-printed, stylized floral element in red and black on tan ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177862

Accession Number: 1965.1.15

Wallpaper

Fragment. Stylized anthemions with intertwining lines printed in tan, yellow and pink liquid mica on beige ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177863

Accession Number: 1965.1.17

Wallpaper

Three layers of wallpaper removed from the Ebenezer Clough House, in Boston, Massachusetts. The top, visible layer is printed with a foliate pattern of repeating leaves on a pindot background. Printed in green and red on a grey ground.

Date: 1845-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177864

Accession Number: 1965.3.2-.4

Wallpaper

Stripe pattern alternating between a meandering floral vine and a vertical pattern made of scrolled foliage and other foliate elements. Printed in green, red, brown on a yellow ground.

Date: 1820-1825

Maker: Grant, Charles (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177865

Accession Number: 1965.3.1

Wallpaper

Fragment. Leaf design in white and red on green ground.

Date: 1835-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177866

Accession Number: 1965.1.10

Wallpaper

Fragments. Turquoise foliate scroll on light blue ground.

Date: 1835-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177867

Accession Number: 1965.1.11

Wallpaper

Fragments. Geometric pattern of small octagons flanked by grape vine and cable stripe. Printed in grey, maroon and black on tan ground.

Date: 1860-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177868

Accession Number: 1965.1.12

Wallpaper

Alternating wide and narrow stripes. Wide stripe composed of vertical dashes in blue. Narrow stripe consists of cable design between brown and maroon bands.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177869

Accession Number: 1965.1.14

Wallpaper

Fragment. Allover, stylized floral and foliage pattern in yellow and olive interrupted by meandering tan and red line. Printed on beige ground.

Date: 1880-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177870

Accession Number: 1965.1.16

Wallpaper

Fragment. Striped wallpaper with garland and dotted ground. Printed in black and white on grey ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177871

Accession Number: 1965.1.18

Wallpaper

Fragment. Three-dimensional diamond paper in sienna and white on cinnamon ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1811-1817

Maker: Moses Grant Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177872

Accession Number: 1965.1.2

Wallpaper

Fragment. Stylized tulip tiles alternating with blank squares. Entire surface has printed crazing. Printed in red, pink, green, with off-white on tan ground.

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177873

Accession Number: 1965.1.21

Wallpaper

Fragment. Stylized floral sprig stripe in pink and green on green patterned ground, overprinted with fine black zigzag grid.

Date: 1915-1925

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177874

Accession Number: 1965.1.22

Wallpaper

Fragment. Stylized floral medallion enclosed by ribbons. Printed in red and white on ochre ground.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: Moses Grant Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177875

Accession Number: 1965.1.3

Wallpaper

Fragment. Diaper pattern with central floral element in blue and white, separated by continuous stylized foliage. Stone work blocks in black and blue printed over original pattern surface. Printed on grey ground. Straight match.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177876

Accession Number: 1965.1.4

Wallpaper

Floral medallion separated by grid of anthemia printed in green and white on light green ground.

Date: 1825-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177877

Accession Number: 1965.1.5

Wallpaper

Fragment of grey and black marbleized blocks separated by green interlace borders.

Date: 1835-1855

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177878

Accession Number: 1965.1.6

Wallpaper

Fragment. Allover pattern with leaves and beads. Printed in brown and white on taupe ground.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177879

Accession Number: 1965.1.7a

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