Historic New England

Wallpaper

Floral paper. Pattern consists of peony and scrolling foliage. Prints in two greens, red, pink, blue, beige, grey, brown, black, and metallic green on a brownish ground. Overprinted with thin brown horizontal lines.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176581

Accession Number: 1985.26.771

Wallpaper

Floral paper consisting primarily of peonies. Prints in four pinks, light blue, four browns, three greys, green, and gold on beige ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176582

Accession Number: 1985.26.772

Wallpaper

Imitation needlepoint paper. Pattern consists of dense floral pattern, including peonies and daisies. Prints in two greens, two pinks, beige, five browns, and four greys on light green ground. Overprinted with overall pin dot pattern.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176583

Accession Number: 1985.26.773

Wallpaper

Floral bouquet and scrolled foliage design paper. Prints in two pinks, two greens, four browns, two blues, and red on beige ground. Embossed/textured paper.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176584

Accession Number: 1985.26.777

Wallpaper

Paper imitating needlework or tapestry. Floral design with shield. Prints in two browns, red, two blues, three greens, pink, white, and gold on a brown ground. Overprinted with thin lines.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176585

Accession Number: 1985.26.779

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Very large-scale, pink, climbing roses on a grey trellis. Printed in four pinks, red, four greens, pale yellow, and two greys on an ivory, embossed ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 176586

Accession Number: 1985.26.78

Wallpaper

Floral and scrolled leaf designed paper. Prints in pink, two greys, brown, white, and gold on a grey/brown, embossed ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176587

Accession Number: 1985.26.780

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Allover design of peonies, bellflower garlands, quatrefoils, looking ball and scrolls. Printed in imitation of tapestry. Printed in rose, Indian red, maroon, two greens, three blues, brown, raw umber, grey, white, and overprinted with black pin stripes on a taupe-brown ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176588

Accession Number: 1985.26.782

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Meandering chestnut boughs with chestnuts and blossoms entwined with a berried vine. Printed in two olive greens, burnt sienna, maroon, orange, lavender, mauve, and tan on a taupe ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176589

Accession Number: 1985.26.783

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Stylized Moorish design of tulips in horseshoe arches, geometric bands and flowers within foliated losenges. Printed in maroon, red, salmon, tan, brown, blue, blue-green, beige and metallic gold on an embossed, pink liquid mica ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176590

Accession Number: 1985.26.785

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Grisaille chrysanthemums, peonies and roses entwined with diapered scrolls and plasterwork brackets. Printed in two greys on unground paper.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176591

Accession Number: 1985.26.786

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Diagonally repeating foliate elements with berry pendants framed by metallic gold floral band. Printed in burgundy, green, brown, ochre, and metallic gold on an embossed ungrounded paper.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176592

Accession Number: 1985.26.787

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Allover, stylized, Baroque flowers and berries with diapered scrolling foliage. Printed in salmon and metallic gold on an embossed, green ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176593

Accession Number: 1985.26.788

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Stems of roses and lilacs entwined by a symmetrical foliate scroll tied with a ribbon. Printed in pink, pale yellow, olive green, tan, brown and taupe on an embossed, metallic green, imitation moire ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176594

Accession Number: 1985.26.789

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating grid of brown foliate motifs against green, dashed chevron stripes on unground varnished paper.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176595

Accession Number: 1985.26.790

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Diagonally repeating grid of flower baskets framed and supported by foliate scrolls and connected by floral and berried garlands. Printed in brown, taupe, grey, cream and metallic gold on an embossed, pink ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176596

Accession Number: 1985.26.792

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Urn with flowers draped with beaded swags and supported by a tableture flanked by foliate scrolls with cornucopia terminals and draped with a fringed anthemion banner. Printed in tan, brown, and pale yellow on an embossed, Indian red and liquid mica ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176597

Accession Number: 1985.26.793

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Trailing foliate scrolls with berried boughs and diapered fields supporting bouquet of roses, lilacs and blue flowers. Printed in beige, ochre, tan, light blue, pink, rose, two greens, white and metallic gold on an embossed, grey ground.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176598

Accession Number: 1985.26.794

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Light blue and white poppies and wild flowers loosely arranged against an embossed, liquid mica ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176599

Accession Number: 1985.26.795

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Stylized flower surrounded by a flowering vine and overlapping rows of serpentine wave scrolls and floral medallions. Printed in two olive greens, Indian red, metallic gold on an embossed, green ground. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176600

Accession Number: 1985.26.798

Wallpaper

Vertically repeating grisaille roses alternating with stripe of ivy and daisy vine. Printed in three greys and two blues on a grey ground. Straight match.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176601

Accession Number: 1985.26.8

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating grid of red rose bouquets tied with a ribbon against a field of olive green, stylized sprigs on an embossed, green ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176602

Accession Number: 1985.26.800

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large stylized flower stem entwined with a diapered ribbon on a field of 'V' shaped lines. Printed in maroon, ochre, black and salmon on a brown, unground paper.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176603

Accession Number: 1985.26.801

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Sprays of flowers loosely arranged against a field of pink moire stripes. Printed in maroon, two browns, white, Indian red, three greens, four blues, grey, ochre, yellow, salmon, and peach on an embossed, pink liquid mica ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176604

Accession Number: 1985.26.802

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Spray of stylized flowers framed by foliate scrolls with daisy fields and sprigs against a field of liquid mica stripes. Printed in pale yellow, yellow, tan, pink, mauve, light blue, and two greens on unground, embossed paper.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176605

Accession Number: 1985.26.806

Wallpaper

Three unused rolls. Pattern composed of vertical stripe of tall basket or urn filled with flowers alternating with floral spray. Edged wtih heart motif and stylized leaf and flower. Prints in pink, mauve, three greens, blue, yellow, grey on grey ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1945-1950

Maker: M.H. Birge & Sons (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177591

Accession Number: 1950.604.1-.3

Wallpaper

Unused roll. Pattern composed of floral spray with ivy garland alternating with floral rosette medallion; diapered background; pleated edges. Prints in two pinks, orange, three greens, red, white, tan, mauve on mauve ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1940-1950

Maker: M.H. Birge & Sons (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177593

Accession Number: 1950.599

Wallpaper

Six unused rolls. Diaper pattern composed of root-like motif inset with anthemion. Printed in white and gray on beige ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1930-1950

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer) United Wallpaper Crafters of N. Am. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177594

Accession Number: 1950.602.1-.6

Wallpaper

Two full and one partial, unused rolls. Pattern composed of floral spray alternating with floral and leaf medallion encircled by bay leaf vine. Prints in two greys and white on grey ground.

Date: 1945-1950

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer) United Wallpaper Crafters of N. Am. (Manufacturer)

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 177595

Accession Number: 1950.603.1-.3

Wallpaper

Two unused rolls of wallpaper. Solid slate-blue color. One roll is unopened and remains in its brown paper wrapper.

Date: 1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 177597

Accession Number: 1950.601.1-.2

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Pillar and Arch design framing view of church spire, which same believe to be by Sir Christopher Wren, while others believe it is the Old North Church, Boston, MA. Printed in two browns and tan.

Date: 1906-1910

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 177598

Accession Number: 1942.4732

Wallpaper

Fragment. Allover, stylized leaves reverse printed in green and red on an unground.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177599

Accession Number: 2000.390

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Foliate scrolls draped with festoons of bell flowers and suspending small floral medallions with beading. Printed in light tan, orange and green on beige ground.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177600

Accession Number: 1955.301D

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Panel with swags and cherubs frolicking with a lioness, alternating with a panel with an urn. Printed in rust and brown on ivory ground.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177601

Accession Number: 1966.2136

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern formed by entwined ribbon and foliate vine and framing flower head. Printed in white and ochre. Straight match.

Date: 1945-1955

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 177602

Accession Number: 2000.172AB

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Wales" pattern by Wilton E. Owen, Inc. Diaper pattern with lozenges formed by foliate vines enclosing floral sprigs. Printed in light blue and green on a blue ground.

Date: 1960-1965

Maker: Wilton E. Owen, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177603

Accession Number: 2000.1628

Wallpaper Fragment

Seven fragments of handpainted wallpaper featuring rolling hills with houses, a sailboat passing by a walled-in city, sky and trees. Painted in black, brown, two blues, blue-green and white on an unground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: Attributed to Cornè, Michele Felice, 1752-1845

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177604

Accession Number: 1969.337.3A-G

Wallpaper

Fragments (2). Landscape scenes of blue sky that accompanies .2a of hunting scenes. Painted in light blue.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: Attributed to Cornè, Michele Felice, 1752-1845

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177605

Accession Number: 1969.339.2B

Wallpaper

Fragment. No pattern visible. Two greys.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: Attributed to Cornè, Michele Felice, 1752-1845

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177606

Accession Number: 1969.338.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern resembling seaweed or twigs. Printed in grey on a yellow ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177607

Accession Number: 1969.334.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Roccoco style paper with floral swags, C-scrolls creating cartouches, scrolling foliage, floral sprays. Printed in silver mica, purple, white, mustard, taupe on a neutral ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: F. E. James Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177608

Accession Number: 1969.336.10

Wallpaper Fragment

Wallpaper fragments (4). Stripe pattern with vertical stripes of meandering vines with flowers. Printed in two greens and gray on a white ground.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177609

Accession Number: 1969.343.1B

Star and Square Wallpaper

Three wallpaper fragments with pattern of interconnecting squares with quatrefoils inside. Block printed in green, white, and black on light blue ground. Duty stamp and "57" stamped on reverse. Made in squares.

Date: 1796-1797

Maker: unknown

Material: laid paper

GUSN: 177610

Accession Number: 1969.339.1

Wallpaper

Fragments (3). A landscape paper depicting a hunting scene. In one fragment two hunters have their guns poised and in another fragment there is a bird in flight. Painted in three greens, two blues, two browns, orange and green on pinkish ground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177611

Accession Number: 1969.339.2A

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (2). Pattern consists of allover roses with larger ones framed by a cartouche. Stylized motifs of scrolled foliage are framed by a floral wreath. Printed in gold, silver mica, yellow, brown on a beige ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177612

Accession Number: 1969.340.5

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. These pieces are too small to decipher a definitive pattern, but it appears to be pin stripes and some thin, undulating lines. Printed in black, green and sage.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177613

Accession Number: 1980.463

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Small-scale, repeating leaves above a row of black scalloped lines. Printed in black, grey, orange.

Date: 1972

Maker: Waterhouse Wallhangings (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177614

Accession Number: 2000.313

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of the outline of scrolling foliage or rinceau. Printed in gold on a white ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177615

Accession Number: 1969.332.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of foliage springing up from a vase or urn with swans flanking a small urn, perched on a scrolled foliate. Printed in gold, taupe and brown on an off-white ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177616

Accession Number: 1969.332.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover, stylized floral pattern. Printed in brown and greyish-white on a cream ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177617

Accession Number: 1969.332.4

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