Historic New England

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment (A) with attached border (B). Sidewall paper (A) is block-printed with a large-scale damask pattern in blue and white on ochre ground. Paper is laid and in partial sheets. Small fragment of the paper's border (B) remains attached at the upper edge of the paper. Visible is a bead...

Date: 1810-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process), laid paper

GUSN: 283429

Accession Number: 2001.281.256.1AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment block-printed with a large-scale damask pattern in blue and black on green ground. Paper is laid and in partial sheets.

Date: 1810-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), laid paper, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 283430

Accession Number: 2001.281.256.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Delicate, all-over pattern of small floral sprigs block-printed in white on blue ground. Handmade wove paper. Reproduced by Waterhouse Wallhangings under the name "Treasure Chest."

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process), wove paper

GUSN: 283431

Accession Number: 2001.281.257

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Window pane checked drapery paper in chartruse and lime green ornamented by pink daisy garlands and bouquets.

Date: 1820-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283476

Accession Number: 1911.98

Wallpaper

Fragment of scenery figure wallpaper. Pattern consists of strapwork framing scenes of rural life alternating with vignetttes of tools of learning, such as books, globe and telescope. Printed in green, grey, and brown on white, ungrounded paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283477

Accession Number: 1978.132

Wedding Dress

Wedding dress. Nunziatia DiFloures and George J. Rembis, September 3, 1938, Satin, Silk, and Beads, Haverhill, MA, 1938

Date: 1938

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 283478

Accession Number: 2012.121.1.1

Veil

Veil with attached headdress, Nunziatia DiFloures and George J. Rembis, September 3, 1938, Satin, Silk, and Beads, Haverhill, MA.

Date: 1938

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 283481

Accession Number: 2012.121.1.2

Marriage Certificate

Wedding ensemble: dress, veil with attached headdress, marriage certificate, Nunziatia DiFloures and George J. Rembis, September 3, 1938, Satin, Silk, and Beads, Haverhill, MA, 1938

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 283483

Accession Number: 2012.121.1.3

Wallpaper fragment

Unused wallpaper fragment produced by Moses Grant, Jr. and Co. Pattern is a large-scale leaf design framing medallions of feathers tied with a bow. Block-printed in red and white on an ochre ground.

Date: 1811-1817

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

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process), wove paper

GUSN: 283496

Accession Number: 2001.281.258

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment manufactured by Moses Grant Jr and Company. Large-scale leaf design with folaite medallions. Roller-printed in green, white, light and dark violet on an ochre ground.

Date: 1811-1817

Maker: Attributed to Moses Grant, Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: laid paper

GUSN: 283499

Accession Number: 2001.281.259

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment manufactured by Moses Grant, Jr. and Co. Paper appears to have been used as the cover of a journal. Marks indicating a hand sewn binding run down the middle of the fragment. Wallpaper has a large-scale grape vine pattern. Block-printed in violet and black on white ground on wov...

Date: 1811-1817

Maker: Attributed to Moses Grant, Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: wove paper, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 283500

Accession Number: 2001.281.260

Wallpaper

Fragment of wallpaper affixed to paperboard. Foliate and twig pattern paper. Roller-printed in green and white on blue ingrain paper. Waterhouse labels this pattern "Oak Leaf."

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283501

Accession Number: 2001.281.261

Wallpaper Borders

Three wallpaper fragments with flocked floral vine and stripe pattern affixed to paperboard. Fragment (A) is labeled "Original" from the Whitney Hotel. Fragments (B) and (C) are labeled as reproductions made by Nancy McClelland. Fragment (A) has a flocked green vine with black and light green over...

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: laid paper, block printing (relief printing process), flocking, screen printing

GUSN: 283502

Accession Number: 2001.281.262A-C

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of wallpaper border produced in France by Zuber et Cie. Red curtain swags with red rosettes and yellow tassels. Egg and dart border above in yellow. Block-printed in two reds, black, yellow, ochre, tan and brown. Paper beneath border appears to have a branch with pine cones and is also ...

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Zuber Et Cie (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 283503

Accession Number: 2001.281.263

Wallpaper border

Two fragments of wallpaper border with repeating flower and s-curve leaf pattern. Block-printed in black, white, green, pink and red on blue ground.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 283506

Accession Number: 2001.281.264AB

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment with square tile pattern. Alternating blue and white tiles with floral medallion designs. Roller-printed in blue, black, mustard, and green on white ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283507

Accession Number: 2001.281.265

Wallpaper

Five fragments of a damask pattern wallpaper. Large-scale damask pattern with some strapwork is roller-printed in dark gray over a small figure, line drawn, floral pattern printed in green in gray ground.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283511

Accession Number: 2001.281.266A-E

Wallpaper

Fragments of large-scale floral wallpaper. Pattern of stylized flowers and scrolling leaves. Roller-printed in cobalt blue on blue-gray ground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283514

Accession Number: 2001.281.267A-C

Wallpaper

Two unused fragments of Renaissance Revival wallpaper with large-scale, floral cartouche pattern. White cartouches of c-scrolls, strapwork, hanging beads, and delicate floral swags frame floral elements alternately printed in ochre and brown and light and dark brown. Block-printed on gray ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 283519

Accession Number: 2001.281.268AB

Wallpaper

A fragment of at least three layers of wallpaper. The uppermost layer is a striped paper with alternating floral and liquid mica stripes. The paper is roller-printed in liquid mica, two greens, light blue-green, two yellow, two pinks, and white on white ground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283526

Accession Number: 2001.281.269

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral sprig pattern with naturalistic pink roses, trailing blue ribbon, and butterflies with stylized circular vines. Block-printed in gray, two blues, four greens, blue-green, red, three pinks, yellow and white on satin white ground.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 283527

Accession Number: 2001.281.270

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Anglo-Japanese style paper with Persian stylistic influences. A variety and abundance of ornament including pinstripes, pindots, stylized flowers, trefoils and rosettes. The dominate element is are red flowers on leafy stems. Roller-printed in red, yellow, and black on...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273724

Accession Number: 2001.281.196

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Anglo-Japanese style paper with numerous ornaments including rosettes, greek keys, trellis and stylized flowers. Pattern does not have strong directional orientation and may have been used as a ceiling or sidewall paper. The paper is embossed with a woven textile pattern...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 273726

Accession Number: 2001.281.197

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral Trail pattern with Anglo-Japanese style and Persian style influences. Roller-printed in yellow, red, light blue and tan on black ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273727

Accession Number: 2001.281.198

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Persian style floral pattern roller-printed in red, yellow, two browns and metallic gold on mustard ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273728

Accession Number: 2001.281.199

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of wallpaper with Aesthetic-style floral pattern with Persian influences. Red flowers and berries on meandering olive stems with metallic gold and black accents. Roller-printed in red, orange, light brown, metallic gold and black on light olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273729

Accession Number: 2001.281.200

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Large-scale, stylized palmette pattern exhibiting Persian stylistic influences. Central palmette framed by strapwork and scrolling foliate garlands. Roller-printed in metallic gold, gold, white, and dark gray on light gray ground. Paper embossed with pebble textured.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273730

Accession Number: 2001.281.201

Wallpaper

Two uncut borders. Neo-classical vases with flowers float above repeating festoons of white fabric and gold strapwork. The outer edges of the border is pre-cut around the pattern forming repeating arches. Roller-printed in metallic gold, white and two grays on semi-translucent white liquid mica g...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273731

Accession Number: 2001.281.202AB

wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Anglo-Japanese style scenic figure pattern. Multiple scenic views are framed by stylized foliage. Visible scenes include swans swimming near a fountain with a gazebo in the background, two figures rowing boats past a tent-like structure with an aquaduct in the background, ...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273732

Accession Number: 2001.281.203

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Art Nouveau style wallpaper with abstracted floral scrolling repeat pattern. Roller-printed in pale yellow and metallic gold on white ground. The paper is embossed with an all over pebble pattern.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273735

Accession Number: 2001.281.204

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Arts and Crafts style paper with large scale stylized medallion and foliate fleur-de-lis pattern. Roller-printed in red, three greens, tan, and gold on brown ground and finished with varnish.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273736

Accession Number: 2001.281.205

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment with Scenic Figure pattern. Scene of two figures rowing a small boat on a calm body of water past a large house. The scene is framed in a medallion and surrounded by Neo-Classical foliate and c-scrolls, bead and ribbon garlands, and rosettes. Roller-printed in olive, tan and re...

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273737

Accession Number: 2001.281.206

Wallpaper

Fragment of wallpaper with a Scenic Figure pattern. C-scrolls form medallions framing four grouped scenes, two large and two small. The upper left scene depicts an old man, leaning against a building, with a child on his lap. The upper right scene depicts goats drinking at a body of water. Lower ...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273750

Accession Number: 2001.281.207

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment with a Scenic Figure pattern. Stick trellis with quatrefoil element frames three scenes depicting a European village on a river with mountains in the background. Roller-printed in white, two grays, three greens, yellow, blue, orange, tan, two browns and salmon on gray ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273751

Accession Number: 2001.281.208

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Scenic figure pattern with three repeating vignettes. Vignettes are of a mounted figure feeding his horses before a well, a group of men hunting water fowl, and a woman standing in water speaking to a man on horseback. Roller-printed in two greens, yellow, orange, blue, ...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273756

Accession Number: 2001.281.209

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment with scenery figure pattern. Pastoral scene of farm animals and peasants under a blue sky with bluff and houses in the distance. The central figures are a boy in a bright blue coat, a steer, a goat, and a lamb. Roller-printed in white, black, orange, yellow, salmon, gray...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273758

Accession Number: 2001.281.210

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Asian style, themed Scenic Figure paper made in Germany for the French market. Pattern is block-printed in black on yellow ground and embossed. Scenes include a figure on horseback, figures with umbrellas, a pagoda with attached raised walkway, a bridge over lily pads and ...

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 273759

Accession Number: 2001.281.211

Mug

Earthenware mug. Shaped base with loop handle and leaf terminals. Mochaware decoration with vareigated loops on white ground and solid bands above and below, in brown, light blue, and burnt orange.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, mocha ware

GUSN: 273760

Accession Number: 1970.385

Mug

Earthenware mug. Shaped base and loop handle with leaf terminals. Mochaware decoration with vareigated loops on blue ground, with solid bands above and below in blue and brick red.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, mocha ware

GUSN: 273761

Accession Number: 1970.388

Mug

Earthenware mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and pointed terminals. Mochaware decoration with marbelized pattern in blue, orange, and brown. Reeded bands at rim and base, overpainted with light green.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, mocha ware

GUSN: 273771

Accession Number: 1970.386

Wallpaper Sample Book

Wallpaper sample book "Birge Quick Wallcoverings: No. 1"

Date: 1955

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273793

Accession Number: 1995.555

Wallpaper

Four panels of French scenic wallpaper. Handpainted on sheets of paper 39 1/4 inches wide by 105 inches hight. The painted pattern of each section is approximately 37 inches high, the remainder being sky. Written in ink on the reverse of one panel: "Environs de Paris / de 31 a 40." Two of the sec...

Date: 1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273794

Accession Number: 1995.556A-D

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral pattern with foliage in Anglo-Japanese color palette. Roller-printed in red, two greens, tan, brown, and liquid mica on yellow ground. "National Wall Paper Company" and "454" printed in selvedge.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: National Wall Paper Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273840

Accession Number: 2001.281.212

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. All over floral with maple leaves block-printed in light blue, mint green, and brown on light gray ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273854

Accession Number: 2001.281.213

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Long, narrow fragment of floral pattern paper. Block-printed with Irisé technique in pale yellow or white, light blue, and dark blue. Ground appears to be gray. Length indicates this may be a bandbox paper or border.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273858

Accession Number: 2001.281.214A-D

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments removed from the Harris Gray Otis House. Nursery paper. Engraved scenes of figures and animals in imitation of toile. Scenes are framed by scrolling acanthus leaf festoons and grape vine arbors.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273871

Accession Number: 2000.1660A-D

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Aesthetic style floral vine pattern. Bamboo shoots in receding colors form the background, vibrantly colored floral vines the foreground. Block-printed in tan, brown, white, red, three shades of pink and three shades of green on a highly polished gray ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273887

Accession Number: 2001.281.215

Sofa

Sofa with straight back and tubular crest rail with carved floret finials. Cylidrical arms contain drawers with exterior upholstery and wooden knob pulls. Feet carved with Ionic scrolls, rosettes, and acanthus leaves. Brass castors.

Date: 1826-1826

Maker: Hancock, William, 1794- (Furniture maker)

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 273902

Accession Number: 2013.24.1

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Bouquet and sprig pattern. Large bouquets of pink and white apple blossoms alternate with small sprigs of violet flowers. Block-printed in twenty-four colors: yellow, white, three olives, four greens, red, two pinks, three mauves, three browns, blue, aqua, four violets ...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273903

Accession Number: 2001.281.216

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment with sprig pattern. Sprigs of purple pansies alternate with branches with pink berries. Block printed in cream, four browns, three aqua greens, four pinks, yellow, mustard, five violets and three greens on gray ground. Light gray stripes, printed on top of the ground, ru...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273908

Accession Number: 2001.281.217

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