Historic New England

Flowerpot

One of a set of five polychrome majolica plant pots with design of potted flowers and incised lines and stars.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293459

Accession Number: 1958.284.2

Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper from Sandwich, Massachusetts. All-over foliate pattern with floral sprigs . Block-printed in green and white on ungrounded, blue paper.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293460

Accession Number: 2001.281.1187

Flowerpot

One of a set of five polychrome majolica plant pots with design of potted flowers and incised lines and stars.

Date: 1850-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293462

Accession Number: 1958.284.3

Flowerpot

One of a set of five polychrome majolica plant pots with design of potted flowers and incised lines and stars.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293464

Accession Number: 1958.284.4

Flowerpot

One of a set of five polychrome majolica plant pots with design of potted flowers and incised lines and stars.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293466

Accession Number: 1958.284.5

Partial roll of Scenic Figure wallpaper with three repeating pastoral 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, w...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293467

Accession Number: 2001.281.1188

Wall flowerpot

One of a pair of majolica plant pots molded in the shape of a basket. Shaped with a flat side to hang against wall. Buff base with white glaze on basket and yellow on basket rim.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293469

Accession Number: 1958.280.1

Wallpaper

Partial roll of Renaissance Revival floral stripe wallpaper from the Clapp House, Dorchester, Massachusetts. Small climbing vines of multi-colored flowers grows up a gray vertical stripe that runs along the left side of roll. The rest of the roll is printed with gray strapwork and scrolls forming ...

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 293474

Accession Number: 2001.281.1189

Wall flowerpot

One of a pair of majolica plant pots molded in the shape of a basket. Shaped with a flat side to hang against wall. Buff base with white glaze on basket and yellow on basket rim.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293477

Accession Number: 1958.280.2

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of wallpaper with Persian or Aesthetic-style floral pattern. 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: 293479

Accession Number: 2001.281.1190

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of floral flocked wallpaper. Groupings of stylized flowers in maroon flocking are joined to each other by draping foliate vines. The flocking is block-printed over ochre stripes on polished cream ground.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 293480

Accession Number: 2001.281.1191

Wallpaper

Partial roll of striped floral wallpaper. Pattern of gray stripes on polished white ground. The primary stripe is printed with sprigs of grasses and blue and violet flowers. Roller-printed in gray, two greens, two blues, ochre, brown, and two violets on a polished white ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293483

Accession Number: 2001.281.1192

Document Folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. It is labeled "Percival - Boston Transcripts 1921." The folder is made from a piece of wallpaper roller-printed with a floral diamond pattern in pink over a...

Date: 1921-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), wallpapers

GUSN: 293715

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.10

Document Folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the school records of her great, great aunt Lydia Percival Freeman (1773-1830). The folder i...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), wallpapers

GUSN: 293727

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.11

Document Folder

Small handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the diary of her great aunt Abby Percival from 1831-1833. The folder is made form a pi...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), cardboard, wallpapers

GUSN: 293728

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.12

Document folder

Small handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the 1832-1834 "Farming Memoranda" of her great-grandfather Elisha Percival, Jr. (1781-...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker) Possibly Silver Studio (Manufacturer)

Material: cardboard, wallpapers

GUSN: 293729

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.13

Document Folder

Small handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the 1860 diary of her great-aunt Abby Percival of Edgington, Illinois. The folder is m...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker) Morris, William (Designer) William Morris & Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), wallpaper brushes

GUSN: 293758

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.14

Document Folder

Small, wallpaper covered folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-two created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held "Lineage Data" from geneologist T. M. Strobridge. The folder, commercially m...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: pasteboard (paper), wallpapers, metal

GUSN: 293763

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.15

Wallpaper covered document box

Small, wallpaper covered box used to hold family documents. The box is one of a group of twenty-two enclosures created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. The box's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the early nineteenth century diary of her great-grandfather Elisha Perciva...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: pasteboard (paper), wallpapers

GUSN: 293764

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.16

Document Folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-two created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. The folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held "Gravestone Transcriptions" dating between 1801 and 1825 from Lee, Massachusetts. The folder ...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: pasteboard (paper), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293765

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.17

Document folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-two created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. The folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held documents relating to the "First Church in Hartford, Connecticut" dating between 1670-1903. T...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

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

GUSN: 293786

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.18

Document folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-two created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. The folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the 1855 "Autograph Album of Cousin Ruth" of Hartford, Connecticut. The folder is made of tr...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293791

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.19

Document folder

Handmade document folder. One of a group of twenty-two enclosures created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California to house family documents. The folder is made of a single piece of folded watercolor paper and decorated with stenciled yellow roses over a stripe of three vertical stripes. On the ...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: watercolor paper, stenciling

GUSN: 293794

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.20

Handmade Envelope

Handmade envelope. One of a group of twenty-two enclosures created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California to house family documents. The envelope, which is open at the top, is made of white paper and stamped or printed with a blue geometric zig-zag pattern. On one side of the envelop is a b...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

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

GUSN: 293801

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.21

Handmade envelope

Handmade envelope. One of a group of twenty-two enclosures created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California to house family documents. The envelope, which is open at the top, is made of white paper stamped or printed with an asymmetrical pattern of small blue flowers. On one side of the envelo...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

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

GUSN: 293802

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.22

Wallpapered board

Fragment of floral stripe wallpaper attached to wallboard from the Captain Josiah Fletcher house, Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Small stripes of diamond-shaped trellis divide alternating stripes of fern branches and stripes of blue flowers. Roller-printed in blue, yellow, two browns and tan on ungroun...

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 293803

Accession Number: 2001.281.1194

Wallpapered board

Fragment of floral Irisé wallpaper attached to wallboard. Block-printed in white, blue, yellow and red on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1825-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 293805

Accession Number: 2001.281.1195

Wallpapered board

Multiple layers of wallpaper attached to two fragments of wallboard from the Captain Trask house, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Fragment (A) is covered with six layers of wallpaper. The first layer, probably a floral stripe, is block-printed in red and white with an undetermined ground (ci...

Date: 1810-1850

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 293806

Accession Number: 2001.281.1196AB

Wallpapered board

Fragment of wallpaper on narrow piece of board from the ell of the Jared Coffin House, Edgartown, Massachusetts. Wallpaper appears to be a landscape or scenery figure paper. One vignette, partially visible, is of a person riding a goat. Block-printed in black, white, orange and brown on gray ground....

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 293809

Accession Number: 2001.281.1197

Wallpaper and wallpaper border attached to building stud

Fragments of wallpaper and flocked wallpaper border attached to building stud. Wallpaper is an 1880s floral pattern roller-printed in green, light blue, dark gray, black and red on gray ground. The border, dating from 1860-1870, has a classical pattern of fretwork and stylized leaf figures block-pri...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), paint (coating)

GUSN: 293812

Accession Number: 2001.281.1198

Window Shade Rods

Seven wooden window shade rods with attached fragments of shade paper. 2001.281.1199.1-.3 have green paper affixed to them. 2001.281.1199.4-.6 have light blue paper affixed to them that is roller-printed in white with a geometric pattern of six-sided stars formed by dots and edged on either side ...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 293821

Accession Number: 2001.281.1199.1.-.7

Wallpaper attached to wallboard

Wallpaper fragments attached to two matching wallboard fragments from the John Wing House, Sandwich, Massachusetts. The first layer of wallpaper is a block-printed pattern of small, green medallions with stylized floral centers stand surrounded by gray curling figures, pin dots and stylized flowers...

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 293863

Accession Number: 2001.281.1200AB

Wallpaper affixed to plaster

Three fragments of wallpaper affixed to horse hair plaster from the Carpenter House, Providence, Rhode Island. The wallpaper is roller-printed with a pattern of interlocking, lozenges and quatrefoils in turquois and brown on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1845-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), fibrous plaster

GUSN: 293878

Accession Number: 2001.281.1201A-C

Box lid covered with wallpaper

Leather-hinged, wooden box lid covered with wallpaper. The lid has fragments of a leather hinge held on with metal tacks along on side and a small leather flap, or handle, held with two tacks on the top to aid in lifting the lid from the box. The wallpaper covering the lid is block-printed in blue w...

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), leather, metal

GUSN: 293937

Accession Number: 2001.281.1202

Box lid covered with wallpaper

Wooden box lid with interior covered with wallpaper. Lid has two small leather hinges, has been reinforced by two wooden slats screwed to the interior, has remnants of a fabric cover or lining under a line of tacks along one side of interior. There are characters written in black pigment on the ext...

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), leather, metal, textile materials

GUSN: 293957

Accession Number: 2001.281.1203

Wallpaper attached to wallboard

Wallpaper attached to a wallboard from Reading, Massachusetts. One side of the board appears to be stained or painted red. The same side is covered with wallpaper block-printed with small red floral sprigs on a white moiré background on ungrounded paper. The other side of the board is unpainted with...

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 293962

Accession Number: 2001.281.1204

Wallpaper attached to wallboard

Three fragments of wallboard with attached striped wallpaper from Monmouth, Maine. The wallboard fragments fit together length-wise with half lap splice joints. Cut nail fragments are present in the boards. One side of the boards are painted or stained red. The wallpaper is affixed over the paint or...

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 293993

Accession Number: 2001.281.1205A-C

Wallpaper attached to wallboard

Wallpaper attached to wallboard from East Sandwich, Massachusetts. Wallpaper block-printed in green with a large-scale meandering floral vine pattern on ungrounded, handmade paper. Board is painted blue-gray on back.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 294011

Accession Number: 2001.281.1206

Wallpaper attached to wallboard

Two fragments of wallboard covered with orange wallpaper. Wallpaper block-printed with a pattern of interlocking round, square and quatrefoil shaped medallions. Round medallions frame floral sprigs, square medallions frame stylized flowers with eight-pointed star centers, and quatrefoil medallions f...

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 294037

Accession Number: 2001.281.1207

Basket

Fluted silver basket with jointed semi-circular handle. Acanthus leaves on handle; flowers, scrolls and leaves on rim of basket.

Date: 1829

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 294081

Accession Number: 1958.335

Teacup and saucer

White porcelain teacup and saucer with black transfer hand-painted image of the front of Nickels Sortwell, with legend "Sortwell Door, Wiscasset, Maine". Teacup (a) with green and gold band at lip, saucer (b) with floral molded edge with green and gold band.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, transfer printing, paint (coating), gilding

GUSN: 294084

Accession Number: 1958.278AB

Electrified lantern

Electrified sheet iron or tin lantern with circular base, spherical globe. Top is also circular with sides pierced with crosses and fluted cone-shaped cap.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: iron and iron alloy, tin and tin alloy, glass (material)

GUSN: 294086

Accession Number: 1958.282

Plant holder

Wrought iron bracket with scalloped edges holding bent iron wire triangle and hook from which is suspended a hanging plant.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought iron (iron alloy)

GUSN: 294090

Accession Number: 1958.285

Plant holder

Cast iron plant holder with open design of roses, daisies, leaves, and a bird. Bracket for holder is in form of two leaves.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: cast iron

GUSN: 294093

Accession Number: 1958.286

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of embossed wallpaper from the Chellis Estate, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. Embossed pattern with central strapwork shield figure with stylized leaves, flowers and feathers. The figure is topped by a strapwork heart and framed by a medallion of strapwork c-scrolls. Roller-print...

Date: 1890-1916

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 291741

Accession Number: 2001.281.1042

Wallpaper

Fragment of flocked wallpaper the Chellis Estate, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. Large-scale medallion pattern formed by a floral bouquet framed by a foliate wreath. Between each large medallions is a smaller floral wreath. The entire paper is covered with brown flocking, the pattern in higher re...

Date: 1890-1916

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), flocking

GUSN: 291774

Accession Number: 2001.281.1044

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of flocked wallpaper from the Chellis Estate, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. Large-scale floral pattern in which acanthus leaf and c-scrolls in green flocking form asymmetrical cartouches or medallions framing alternating rows of floral bouquets in flat bottomed baskets and floral b...

Date: 1890-1916

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), flocking

GUSN: 291775

Accession Number: 2001.281.1043

Wallpaper

Partial roll of floral medallion wallpaper manufactured by Frederick Beck & Company, New York. Oval medallion tied and hung with a ribbon from scrolling acanthus leaves. The medallion is festooned with floral swags and frames a bouquet of flowers. the pattern is block-printed in green and olive f...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), flocking

GUSN: 291839

Accession Number: 2001.281.1045

Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper. Diaper-pattern with quatrefoil figures block printed in metallic gold and black on taupe ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291848

Accession Number: 2001.281.1046

Wallpaper

Partial roll of floral wallpaper. Meandering floral vine with pink roses and yellow morning glories over background of light blue and liquid mica stripes. Roller-printed in two greens, yellow, white, two pinks, fuschia and liquid mica on light blue ground. Manufactured by Kayser & Allman. Pattern n...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: Kayser & Allman (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), mica (white pigment)

GUSN: 291860

Accession Number: 2001.281.1047

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