Historic New England

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Diaper pattern composed of stylized foliate elements made from palmettes and anthemia framed by lunettes with dotted edges. Printed in pale yellow, metallic gold and copper. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1892

Maker: Warren, Lange & Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178018

Accession Number: 2000.128

Wallpaper

Partial roll of repeating boughs with sunflower-like blossoms separated by star-like, geometric motifs. Printed in metallic gold, silver, copper, yellow, white and tan.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: W. Campbell & Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178019

Accession Number: 2000.149

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Scenery figure paper. Delicately rendered vignette showing shepherdess feeding doves while a sheep stand by her side. Scene is set within medallion embellished with scrolled foliage and flowers. Prints in two pinks, yellow, two browns, two greens, blue, grey on light grey ground.

Date: 1900-1916

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

GUSN: 178020

Accession Number: 2000.1443

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Allover foliage with pin-dots. Printed on metallic gold, tan, and brown with copper dots on a yellow ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178021

Accession Number: 2000.283

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Repeating, stylized flower framed by metallic gold wreath and by leaves sprouting smaller stylized flowers. Printed in brown, tan, metallic gold, green, liquid mica green.

Date: 1904-1917

Maker: Hobbs, Benton & Heath (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178022

Accession Number: 2000.150

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Rococo-inspired paper. Pattern consists of vertical stripes of large column inset with fretwork flanked by two smaller columns. Larger column embellished with C-scrolls, scrolled foliage, thinner columns wrapped with floral vines, central cartouche. Prints in red, brown, mauve, beige ...

Date: 1900-1916

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

GUSN: 178023

Accession Number: 2000.1440

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment. Diaper pattern with losenges made of meandering vine framing a central floral sprig. Printed in white. Straight match.

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178024

Accession Number: 2000.1620

Wallpaper

Rolled fragments. Vertical rows of delicate floral vine with berries alternating with scalloped stripe. Printed in pale yellow, red, blue, white, dark grey and black.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178025

Accession Number: 2000.175

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Scenery figure paper consisting of vertical stripe of repeating vignette of woman, child and dog, alternating with cluster of roses. Prints in two greys on taupe ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1920-1950

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178026

Accession Number: 2000.1422

Wallpaper

Rolled sample. Woody, meandering vine with boughs of blossoms. Printed in red, blue, navy blue, brown, black and metallic gold and silver on a striped, taupe field.

Date: 1925-1935

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178027

Accession Number: 2000.1633

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Winding floral branch with large-scale flowers and perched birds. Printed in purple, three blues, green, pink, red, taupe, black, silver and gold on a pinkish-cream ground.

Date: 1925-1935

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178028

Accession Number: 2000.316

Wallpaper Fragment

Wallpaper fragments (4). Pattern of a band of interlocking rings. Printed in olive and white on a black ground.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177678

Accession Number: 1969.343.1C

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Stripe pattern with flowers and foliage in vertical columns embellished with scrolls, rosettes, swags of beads, birds and anthemia. Printed in two greens, two blues, white and mauve on a green ground.

Date: 1800-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177679

Accession Number: 1969.343.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover pattern of large foliage and flowers. Printed in white and green on an unground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177680

Accession Number: 1969.343.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Scene, in a vignette framework, of a house in a rural setting, with tree, bridge and pond. Also a smaller vignette of a tree. Printed in blue, green and red on an unground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177681

Accession Number: 1969.343.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of foliate vines or bellflowers that burst into scrolling foliage and flowers. Printed in green and grey on a white ground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177682

Accession Number: 1969.343.6

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Stripe pattern with floral bunches and thin, horizontal lines. Printed in red, green and blue on a white ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177683

Accession Number: 1969.343.7

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. This is a reproduction paper of 1969.343.1B. Striped pattern with vines. Printed in two greens, grey on a white ground.

Date: 1970

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177684

Accession Number: 1969.343.1D

Wallpaper Fragments

Six wallpaper fragments. Pattern consists of stylized foliage. Printed in green and white on a gray ground.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177685

Accession Number: 1969.343.1A

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Renaissance Revival pattern. Vertical stripes with an elaborate central stripe with strapwork, openwork, scrolls and flowers. Printed in two browns, taupe on polished, cream ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177686

Accession Number: 1969.339.6

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (3). No pattern. Appears to be a peach colored paint (distemper?) over plain blue paper stock.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177687

Accession Number: 1971.207.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (2). The pattern imitates moire. Printed in grey on a white ground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177688

Accession Number: 1971.207.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (2). Pattern consists of squares, with flowers in the horizontal and vertical lines, and flowers in a circular framework within the squares. Printed in a sage green on a white ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177689

Accession Number: 1971.207.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover pattern of sprigs. Printed in fushia, white, pale mustard and pale sage on a taupe ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177690

Accession Number: 1971.207.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover diaper pattern. Within each lozenge are flowers enclosed by diamonds. Each lozenge is joined by rosettes. Printed in beige and cream on an off-white ground.

Date: 1925-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177691

Accession Number: 2000.383A

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of stylized, large flowers made up of small lines and thin, vertical stripes of horizontal lines and rectangles. Printed in blue on a white ground.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177692

Accession Number: 1969.333

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of a bouquet of assorted flowers (including peonies, lilac, dafodil) and a medallion of garden tools and flutes (like a trophy). Side border of a vine of lilies or irises. Printed in brown, beige, grey and taupe on a taupe ground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177693

Accession Number: 1971.208

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (2). Stylized foliate motif [?]. Printed in green and peach on an off-white ground.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177694

Accession Number: 1971.209

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Masonry paper with coffered design. Only one corner of octagon present. Printed in grey, two greens, black and white on a grey ground.

Date: 1826

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177695

Accession Number: 1969.339.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral vine and stripe pattern with a vine framed by short, horizontal lines and dots, vertical chains of openwork frame a stripe. Printed in red, green and blue-grey on a white ground. Third and outermost layer on same side of board partition as .4 and .5. Wall was lathed and pl...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177696

Accession Number: 1969.342.6

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of imitation marble. Printed in three greys and yellow on a light grey ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177697

Accession Number: 1969.343.5

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments with a Gothic Revival pattern. Printed in white, brown, and grey on a beige ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177698

Accession Number: 1978.182AB

Wallpaper

Fragment. Renaissance Revival pattern with thick scroll or strapwork with a faux woodgrain pattern inside scrolls. Printed in brown and blue on an unground.

Date: 1855-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177699

Accession Number: 1986.1944.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of stylized flowers and foliage with pindots and pinstripes in the background. Printed in dark grey, blue and white on a light grey ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177700

Accession Number: 1986.1944.1

Wallpaper

Fragment. Floral sprig in two pinks and varnish green on a blue ground with black pindots.

Date: 1785-1795

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177701

Accession Number: 1971.61.1

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating vertical grid with berried vine forming vertical divider and feathered foliage creating horizontal divider. Grid frames floral sprig, cherries, urn, arrow, grape bunch and open box. Printed in maroon, pink, yellow, green and black on pale blue-green ground.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: Zuber et Cie (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177702

Accession Number: 1967.114

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragement. Reproduction of a Renaissance Revival floral stripe. Strapwork with blue, red and green sprigs bordering grey scrolls with roses and blue flowers on white ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177703

Accession Number: 2000.1687

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Renaissance Revival stripe paper consisting of alternating stripes of strapwork medallion and floral bouquets. Printed in green, brown on grey-green, unground paper. Straight repeat.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177704

Accession Number: 1966.469.2

Wallpaper

Fragment of pastoral landscape paper, showing leaf and tree limb stripe and a fraction of the vignette. Prints in ochre, two browns, tan on a yellow ground.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177705

Accession Number: 1971.61.2

Wallpaper

Two fragments of diaper patterned paper. Medallion inset within honeycomb-shape diamond. Prints in tan, dark red, orange, green on beige ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177706

Accession Number: 1971.62

Wallpaper

Fragment. Striped paper composed of 3 vertical rows of squares with checkerboard pattern. There are three pattern variations for each row: stylized foliate and striped block; angular 's' shape; and striped block and zig-zag shape and striped block. Squares are separated by a meader-like design. Prin...

Date: 1795-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177707

Accession Number: 1966.469.1

Wallpaper

Fragment. Landscape figures. Pastoral scene of shepherd boy playing a horn in the company of a boy and a girl. Scene alternates vertically with morning glory sprig. Printed in pink, white and varnish green on grey ground.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177708

Accession Number: 1929.788

Wallpaper

Vertical stripe constising of solid narrow stripes alternating with broader stripes bearing overall repeats of tiny ovals on which is superimposed floral sprigs. White, two greens, pink on an unground paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177709

Accession Number: 1971.212.2