Historic New England

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment, border only. Urn pattern on blue ground, no floral rosettes. Edges cut on both sides.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272036

Accession Number: 1914.244X

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272037

Accession Number: 1914.244L

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with raw edges. Urn border and floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272038

Accession Number: 1914.244W

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with raw edges. Urn border on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272039

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.1

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment, top selvedge edge. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272040

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.2

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground with tips of floral rosette pattern just visible along top edge.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272041

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.3

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment with one selvedge edge. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272042

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.4

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with one selvedge edge opposite border. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272043

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.5

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground. Short edges of rectangle are cut on a curve.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272044

Accession Number: 1914.244V

Chintz fragment

L-shaped fragment with one selvedge edge. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272045

Accession Number: 1914.244U

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern with partial floral rosette pattern along edge. Fragment is pieced together at one end with hand stitches in blue cotton thread. Narrow end has been trimmed to a curve, cutting across border pattern. The end opposite the vertical cut ...

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272046

Accession Number: 1914.244I

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile), glaze, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 272048

Accession Number: 1914.244D

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments from the Lincoln Streeter House in Brimfield, Massachusetts. Floral pattern printed in brown, cream, white, blackand gray on gray ground.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272049

Accession Number: 1979.4.1AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments from the Lincoln Streeter House in Brimfield, Massachusetts. Scrolling vine and sprig pattern printed in green, brown, white, gray, yellow and liquid mica on a pink ground.

Date: Early twentieth century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272051

Accession Number: 1979.4.3AB

Wallpaper

Three wallpaper framents found beneath the 1890s wallpaper in the parlor of Castle Tucker, Wiscasset, Maine

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272053

Accession Number: 1998.6399A-C

Kapa

Large piece of white kapa, or Hawaiian barkcloth. Embossed throughout with small circles and very lightly tinted with charcoal. The texture of the kapa is thin but crisp. Most likely a layer of a kapa moe, or mutli-layered sleeping cover. Tapa (or kapa in Hawaii) is cloth made from the inner bar...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272054

Accession Number: 2006.44.3672

Kapa

Large piece of kapa, or Hawaiian barkcloth. Pink on one side with a decorative pattern of widely spaced bands and triangles made with black/gray spots.The kapa has a crisp, thick texture and is embossed throughout with small triangle shapes. Probably the top layer of a kapa moe, or multi-layered s...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272055

Accession Number: 2006.44.3673

Bamboo Settee

Bamboo, rattan, and wicker settee with four rectangular cushions made of a woven plant material.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material), wicker, rattan

GUSN: 272056

Accession Number: 1936.85

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272057

Accession Number: 1940.750A

Tapa

Large piece of tapa cloth, from Samoa (or possiblyTonga). Tapa - or barkcloth - is called siapo in Samoa. Heavily decorated over its entire surface, the design was made by rubbing barkcloth on a upeti, or patterned form, creating a very fine and intricate pattern. Tapa is fabric made from the inner...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272058

Accession Number: 2006.44.3674

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272060

Accession Number: 1940.750B

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272061

Accession Number: 1940.750C

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272062

Accession Number: 1940.750D

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272063

Accession Number: 1940.750E

Tapa

Large piece of heavily decorated Samoan tapa cloth, called siapo in Samoa. Intricate decorative pattern covers the surface with frequent overpainting that delineates portions of the pattern. The pattern is made up of triangles, curved hourglass shapes, leaf patterns, chevrons and star-shapes that ar...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272065

Accession Number: 2006.44.3675

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

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