Historic New England

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

Fragment of floral striped wallpaper. Large-scale meandering, floral vine block-printed in grays. Long floral stamen in metallic gold. Side stripe of stylized flowers flanked by stripes of flowers accented with gold. Block-printed in four grays and metallic gold on polished white ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292145

Accession Number: 1995.389

Wallpaper

Three wallpaper fragments. White and blue diaper pattern on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292146

Accession Number: 1995.391

Wallpaper

Two wallpaper fragments roller-printed with brown and blue diaper pattern. Fragment [A] has a printed paper hand outlined in green glued to the back. Roller-printed in blue, brown, white on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292147

Accession Number: 1995.392

Wallpaper

Rolled wallpaper sample from the "old paper shop of Mr. Childs" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gold-colored ground with bronze flecks, no pattern. Paper is rolled on a cardboard tube. Carved wooden rod attached to paper's end.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292153

Accession Number: 2001.281.1078

Wallpaper

Wallpaper sample from the "old paper shop of Mr. Childs" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gold-colored ground with black flecks, no pattern. Paper is rolled on a cardboard tube. Carved wooden rod attached to paper's end.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292157

Accession Number: 2001.281.1079

Wallpaper

Fabric backed wallpaper sample from "the old paper shop of Mr. Childs" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Large-scale embossed, gilt-figure of three birds landing on a neoclassical vase of fruit, branches and grasses. Small gilt-figure of bird on a nest repeats around the larger figure. Gray block-print...

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), cotton (textile), gilding

GUSN: 292159

Accession Number: 2001.281.1080

Wallpaper

Fabric backed wallpaper sample from "the old paper shop of Mr. Childs" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Floral pattern featuring pink flowers, possibly geraniums, and foliate swags on a faux-moiré background. Block-printed in seven greens, four pinks, red, two yellows, two violets and gray on white pol...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 292165

Accession Number: 2001.281.1081

Wallpaper

Fabric backed wallpaper sample from "the old paper shop of Mr. Childs" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The central feature of the pattern is a large, naturalistic floral spray with roses, hydrangea, harebells and geraniums. The flowers float on a scenic background depicting a waterway framed by ferns, ...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292166

Accession Number: 2001.281.1082

Wallpaper

Fabric backed wallpaper sample probably from "the old paper shop of Mr. Childs" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Large-scale floral pattern executed in a folk art or faux hand-painted style. Large floral bouquet of carnations, tulips, roses and other flowers tied with a red ribbon. Floral sprigs surrou...

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292192

Accession Number: 2001.281.1083

Wallpaper

Fabric backed wallpaper panel probably from "the old paper shop of Mr. Childs" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Display panel of matching borders and sidewall papers with Neoclassical Arabesque patterns. Moving from top to bottom of the panel, the papers are as follows: a border consisting of several ba...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292224

Accession Number: 2001.281.1084

Wallpaper Border

Partial roll of cut wallpaper border from Bath, Maine. Scrolling, stylized floral vine embossed with basket-weave pattern. Upper and lower bands of stylized flower with leaves embossed with narrow ribbed pattern. The pattern is outlined and highlighted with block-printed metallic gold on gray groun...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292238

Accession Number: 2001.281.1085

Unused roll of Scenery Figure wallpaper from Wellfleet, Massachusetts. When hung, this paper forms decorative panels divided by the printed side boarders. Each panel consists of a column of alternating vignettes framed by Renaissance Revival style cartouches and floral elements. The alternating vig...

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292426

Accession Number: 2001.281.1091

Coverlet

Coverlet, machine woven with raised pattern of scrolls, vines, and flowers among a lattice ground. Geometric patterned side border.

Date: 1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (fiber)

GUSN: 292446

Accession Number: 1985.885

Table

Dropleaf table. Rectangular top with molded edges, two drawers. Rests on turned pillar with molded legs. Paw casters.

Date: 1830-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), pine (wood), birch (wood), tulipwood (Brazilian, wood)

GUSN: 292473

Accession Number: 2014.24.1

Pedestal

Pedestal with carved flowers on column, square base.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 292475

Accession Number: 2014.25.1

Photograph

Framed photograph of Palatine Hill. Coliseum in distance.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 292477

Accession Number: 2014.26.1

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of gilt-figure wallpaper from Cranston, Rhode Island. Pattern of embossed, four-pointed medallions. Block printed in pink and white, gold leaf applied to embossed areas. Gray ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings, gilding

GUSN: 292786

Accession Number: 2001.281.1092

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