Historic New England

Wallpaper

Two used wallpaper fragments. Pattern consists of filled compote dishes and vases set within round circle/medallion. Diapered ground. Printed in light green, dark green, red, brown, on bluish-grey ground.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177737

Accession Number: 1967.124

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment of imitation marble paper. Hand painted in blue, brown, orange and yellow on black ground.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177738

Accession Number: 2000.1666

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Imitation woven gimp. Printed in three blues, two borwns, taupe and beige on white ground.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177739

Accession Number: 2000.656

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Allover pattern of densely arranged, six-pointed, metallic gold stars on a red ground. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177740

Accession Number: 2000.665

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Stripes of meandering floral vine outlined in ochre and metallic gold of a green field and alternating with a wide taupe stripe. Printed on embossed paper.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177741

Accession Number: 2000.666

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Cut narrow border in imitation of woben cloth or cords. Printed in three blues, two grays, black and white.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177742

Accession Number: 2000.668

Bandbox

Small, square pasteboard bandbox covered in foliate patterned paper. The pattern consists of oak leaves, acorns, flowers, pindots and diaper pattern. Block printed in grey and blue on a white, satin ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177743

Accession Number: 1934.2948.2

Wallpaper

Fragment of floral border consisting of chrysanthemums and leaves edged with red and blue band. Printed in two reds, ochre, blue, orange, green, white on light green ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177744

Accession Number: 2000.670.2b

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern consists of imitation prints framed with borders and bow knots. These "prints" are connected by trophies, flowers and C-scrolls. Stenciled in grey and block-printed in brown, white and black on pink ground.

Date: 1760-1765

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177745

Accession Number: 1942.1559AB

Wallpaper

Fragment. Grisaille Landscape figure. Herd of cows with mountainous landscape in background, framed by foliage and alternating with bouquet of naturalistic flowers.

Date: 1920-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177746

Accession Number: 2000.1661

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Vertical repeat. Harbor scene with rainbow sky framed by Gothic cartouches entwined with red roses and blue morning glories, printed on white polished ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177747

Accession Number: 1971.210

Wallpaper

Fragment. Pillar and arch design. Fluted columns draped with garlands framing an urn, and to the right, a garden scene with a globe upon a pedestal. Printed in brown, black, grey, white on a grey ground.

Date: 1760-1770

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177748

Accession Number: 1971.197A-G

Wallpaper

Meandering grey vines with large flower with green petals printed on light grey ground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177749

Accession Number: 1969.413.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment depicting spiral cones with black flowers and leaves sprouting from centers. Printed in black and white on blue ground. Straight match.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177750

Accession Number: 1969.413.1

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Foliate on a floral pattern. Printed in green and grey on a white ground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177751

Accession Number: 1952.448

Wallpaper

Fragment. Border of swag shape printed in black and orange on white or unground paper.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177752

Accession Number: 1969.413.1B

Wallpaper

Fragment. Flower heads in two blues framed by wreath of intersecting circles on white ground.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177753

Accession Number: 1969.413.2

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Repeating medallions of basket with swan handles filled with fruit and framed by white, stylized anthemia. Printed in taupe, white, salmon and two greens. Straight match.

Date: 1929

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

GUSN: 177754

Accession Number: 1929.1500

Wallpaper

Wallpaper border with festoons, drapery and tassels with a top band of a single row of chevrons and a bottom band of a continuous cord. Printed in green, beige, and pink on a white ground.

Date: 1790-1815

Maker: Appleton Prentiss (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177755

Accession Number: 1972.113C

Wallpaper

Pattern of undulating, serpentine lines forming symmetrical hourglass shapes. Between lines are grapevines and 3-leaf clovers. Printed in two blues, orange, black, grey and white on a blue ground.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177756

Accession Number: 1972.113B

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Plain blue oatmeal paper.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177757

Accession Number: 1972.113.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper border fragment. Pre-cut border of repeating red and yellow flowers against a blue field and a dark blue Art-Deco trellis. Printed in yellow, ochre, tan, brown, pink, red, three blues and metallic gold.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177758

Accession Number: 1972.113.2B

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Repeated stylized sprig design printed in white, black and blue on grey ground.

Date: 1785-1795

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177959

Accession Number: 1965.11A

Wallpaper

Fragment. Striped flowering vine. Neat flowering vine in blue and alternating with stripe composed of continuous wheat enclosed within an elipse and framed by stylized foliage.

Date: 1796-1815

Maker: Moses Grant & Sons (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177960

Accession Number: 1971.190

Wallpaper

Fragment. Neat vine and stripe. Flowering vine in blue and black and alternating with ivy stripe. Printed on yellow ground.

Date: 1796-1815

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177961

Accession Number: 1971.189

Wallpaper Fragment

Wallpaper fragment. Festoon border. Gathered drapery with rosettes printed in green, white, two browns, black and yellow on a pale green ground. Hung with bottom border of imitation moulding in yellow, black and orange.

Date: 1810-1825

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

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177962

Accession Number: 1964.400.2A-E

Wallpaper

Fragment. Geometric stripe. Blocks of black diagonal dashes alternating vertically and horizontally with blocks of white undulating line, stylized foliate bordered by a scalloped dotted line. Printed on grey ground.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177963

Accession Number: 1969.418

Wallpaper Border

Floral border fragment Meandering flowering vines which cross to form ellipses. Orange flowers at intersections and centered within ellipses. Printed in orange, black and varnish green on light blue ground.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177964

Accession Number: 1973.115.1A

Wallpaper

Fragment. Plain light blue paper.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177965

Accession Number: 2000.273.1

Wallpaper

Fragment. Two sheets of masonic wallpaper. Two figures flanked by corinthian columns supporting an arch. Masonic symbols and arabesques decorate the paper. Printed in two pinks, blue, white and black on light blue ground.

Date: 1800-1805

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177966

Accession Number: 1963.389

Wallpaper

Fragment. Rainbow paper with floral medallion and scrolls printed in white. Graduated ground - from the edges orange to yellow to yellow-green to blue.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177967

Accession Number: 1971.145

Wallpaper

Pale yellow paper with no visible pattern.

Date: 1800-1815

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177968

Accession Number: 1972.102

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Cut border. Wild roses in three pinks, white and red, alternating with roses in grisaille with green centers and maroon accents, and three green foliage and stems on a grey ground with a white cable border.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177969

Accession Number: 1985.29

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Small sample of flame-stitch motif wallpaper printed in red, pink, green and black. Printed on buff or unground paper.

Date: 1700-1720

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177970

Accession Number: 1985.40

Wallpaper

Fragment. Green floral and foliate medallion and three stalks of wheat against a field of grey and white flowers and scrolls. Printed on grey ground.

Date: 1825-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177971

Accession Number: 2000.367

Wallpaper

Fragments. Vertical stripes composed of flowers flanked by willow-like foliage and separated by flower sprigs. Printed in two greens on a white ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177972

Accession Number: 2000.375A-C

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Lozenges formed by stiff leaves and flower heads on a field of small lozenges printed in green and white and flanked by continuous sprouting floral vine.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177973

Accession Number: 2000.649

Wallpaper

Fragment of solid yellow wallpaper.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177974

Accession Number: 1956.M18

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Blended yellow, orange and red floral medallions against a blue ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177976

Accession Number: 1981.287A-C

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Repeating blue, foliate medallions with grape or berry clusters on a field of meandering, blue vines. Printed on a pink ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177977

Accession Number: 1981.288A-E

Wallpaper

Fragments. Gathered drapery design in grisaille with green foliate wreaths framing pink and green rosettes. Printed in two greys, white, two greens and pink on a grey ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177978

Accession Number: 2000.374A-C

Wallpaper

Two fragments of unused wallpaper. Elipticat lozenges with white floral medallions and berried vines on a green field of identical medallions and berried vine in green. Printed on gray ground. Straight match.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177979

Accession Number: 2000.645AB

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Rows of vertically repeating, stylized flower bouquets with entwined stems. Printed against grey stripes. Printed in yellow, green, grey and liquid mica. Straight match.

Date: 1895-1915

Maker: Illinois Wall Paper Mills (Manufacturer)

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 177980

Accession Number: 2000.1634

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Allover foliate design of grey and blue leaves with grey, curveilinear branches and surrounded by radiating, maroon pin-dots. Printed on an unground paper.

Date: 1850-1855

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177981

Accession Number: 2000.369

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Pillar and Arch design. View through an arch and colonnade of a church spire, which some believe is one 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 & Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177982

Accession Number: 1919.350

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Gothic design inspired paper consisting of ogee-arch medallions and crockets. Prints in two greys, white on beige ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1930-1940

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

GUSN: 177983

Accession Number: 2000.1426

Wallpaper

Rolled sample. Two rows of uncut borders with repeating sprays of red roses and rosebuds supported by C-scrolls and diapered fill. Printed in maroon, red, pink, two greens, black and white liquid mica.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: Pittsburg Wallpaper Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177984

Accession Number: 2000.164

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Allover design of white, imitation silk moire.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177985

Accession Number: 2000.133

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Flamboyant Gothic design of repeating arches decorated with scrolled foliage and central cartouche. Prints in whtie, dark grey on light grey ground.

Date: 1900-1917

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

GUSN: 177986

Accession Number: 2000.1441

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Striped design of vertically repeating foliate cruciforms with moire stripe. Printed in two grays and beige on a polished white ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177987

Accession Number: 2000.608

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