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Tin of Sweeco, " A Sweet Milk Cocoa"

Cocoa powder, Sweeco, "A Sweet Milk Cocoa It's Cooked Instant", 8 oz, Durkee-Mower, Inc., Lynn, MA, In original tin. Made by the makwers of Marshmellow Fluff.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Durkee-Mower, Inc.

Material: tin alloy, paper by composition or origin

GUSN: 273985

Accession Number: 2013.27.27

Gravy Sauce

La Choy Brown Gravy Sauce Bead Molasses Type in original glass jar, 5 oz. Made by La Choy Food Products in Archbold, OH.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: LaChoy Food Products, Inc.

Material: glass (material), paper (fiber product), printing (process)

GUSN: 273986

Accession Number: 2013.27.28

Jar of Olive Oil

Elena Brand Pure Italian Olive Oil in original glass jar, 1 ½ oz. This oil is used for all medical purposes. Label is red, black, and white and includes an image of an angel.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), paper (fiber product), tin alloy, printing (process)

GUSN: 273987

Accession Number: 2013.27.29

Jar of Mineral Oil

Eatons American Mineral Oil Heavy, glass jar with original label. Used as an internal lubricant for use in the treatment of constipation and intestinal ailments.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), paper (fiber product), printing (process)

GUSN: 273988

Accession Number: 2013.27.30

Janie Spot Cleaner

Janie Spot Cleaner by R.S. Cowen of New York, New York. Product is in original container.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: R.S. Cowen Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 273989

Accession Number: 2013.27.31

Box of Dry Shampoo

Minipoo brand ten minute dry shampoo in a 5 oz, container in original box with brush and directions.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard, plastic (organic material), nylon

GUSN: 273990

Accession Number: 2013.27.32

Vicks VA-TRO-NOL

Vick's brand cold medicine in a blue glass jar inside the original mint-colored box.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), cardboard

GUSN: 273991

Accession Number: 2013.27.33

Tube of Actephedrin

Actephedrin tube in original box by Ayerst, McKenna, and Harrison. Made in Montreal, Canada. Reduces congestion in the treatment of head colds, Hay fever, and Catarrh.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: Ayerst, McKenna, and Harrison, Ltd.

Material: tubes (object forms), printing (process), cardboard

GUSN: 273992

Accession Number: 2013.27.34

Unguentine Ointment for Burns

Tube of unguentine in original box. "The First Thought in Burns" by the Norwich Company, Norwich, New York. An antiseptic soothing ointment for burns, sunburn, cuts, and skin irritations. Printed in U.S.A.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), plastic (organic material)

GUSN: 273993

Accession Number: 2013.27.35

Box of Cold Tablets

Bromo Quinine Cold Tablets, The Grove Laboratories, Inc. St. Louis, MO. Tablets are laxative analgesic antipyretic and tablets are in original box.

Date: 1935-1952

Maker: The Grove Laboratories, Inc.

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

GUSN: 273994

Accession Number: 2013.27.36

Jar of Vaseline\n

Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, 1 ¾ oz, in glass jar. Made by Chesebrough MFG Company in New York. In original glass jar.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: Chesebrough Manufacturing Company

Material: glass (material), paper (fiber product), tin alloy, printing (process)

GUSN: 273995

Accession Number: 2013.27.37

Container of Boric Acid

Rexall Boric Acid, 8 oz. By the Rexall Drug Company, USA. In original container with blue label and packaging.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: Rexall Drug Company

Material: paper (fiber product), cardboard, printing (process)

GUSN: 273996

Accession Number: 2013.27.38

Sewing Basket

Round woven sweet grass basket and cover, with a pink woven design throughout the basket. Basket includes handles. Contains sewing notions, thread spools, tin container, a small box, and projects.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: sweetgrass (material), weaving

GUSN: 273997

Accession Number: 2013.27.39AB

Sewing Basket

Round sweet grass and ash flat basket. Contains sewing related items, needle cases, wooden spools, corticelli silk, ivory knitting needles. Basket does not have a cover, opening is smaller than base.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: sweetgrass (material), ash (wood), weaving

GUSN: 273998

Accession Number: 2013.27.40

Sewing basket\n

Round woven basket with cover. Contains crochet and lace projects, a Pattern from the Royal Society of Embroidery and Crochet, Belt buckle with a Jordan Marsh tag, and a umbrella shaped ivory needle case.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood by composition or origin, weaving

GUSN: 273999

Accession Number: 2013.27.41

Sewing Basket

Woven basket with cover. Cover has attached purple silk tassels and a bangle [may have been the handle at one point]. Contains a Queen embroidery hoop.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, weaving

GUSN: 274000

Accession Number: 2013.27.42

Mug

Earthenware mug (mochaware). Shaped base with loop handle and leaf terminals. Horizontal twig pattern in black, light blue, and tan on beige ground, with light blue and black bands above and below. Reeded band at rim, overpainted with light green.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, mocha ware

GUSN: 274082

Accession Number: 1970.398

Mug

Earthenware mug. Slightly barrel shaped with ear-shaped handle. Body covered with vertical sponged bands, alternating blue and orange. Brown line around rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 274084

Accession Number: 1970.411

Wallpaper

Two wallpaper fragments. Modernistic or early Art Deco style large-scale floral pattern. Highly stylized floral sprigs made with geometric shapes and color blocking. Roller-printed in two reds, mustard yellow, pink, two blues, two grays, green, and black. Background patterns consist of right ang...

Date: 1915-1923

Maker: United Wallpaper Crafters of N. Am. (Typesetter)

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 283300

Accession Number: 2001.281.228AB

Wallpaper

Two fragments of unused wallpaper. Novelty paper with pattern of animals, birds and trees. Roller-printed in salmon, aqua, olive green, black, gray and blue on a cream ground with ungrounded pindots. Dorothy Waterhouse notes that the paper was "designed by Mr. Baer in France."

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283303

Accession Number: 2001.281.229AB

Wallpaper

Two unused wallpaper fragments with Anglo-Japanese style pattern of framed vignettes in varying sizes, shapes and subject matter on an abstract "crackle" patterned background. Vignettes include chickens in a farmyard, a child and dog, a garden fountain, a tapestry with an image of a peasant woman ca...

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association (1880-1887) (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283304

Accession Number: 2001.281.230AB

Wallpaper

Fragments of ceiling paper. Abstract pattern of overlapping, wavy cirlces and dots. Roller-printed in cream on a light copper liquid mica ground. American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association logo printed in selvedge. Fragment "A" is lined with unprinted paper. Fragment "B" is lined with a foli...

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association (1880-1887) (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283305

Accession Number: 2001.281.231AB

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Gilt-Figured paper with pattern of repeating floral sprigs in embossed gold roller-printed on light gray ground.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 283306

Accession Number: 2001.281.232

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Gilt-Figured Striped pattern. Roller-printed vines of leaves and small flowers climb a sold stripe at repeating intervals. Between stripes are floral and foliate gilt figures. Embossed gold leaf on light gray ground.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 283307

Accession Number: 2001.281.233

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of wallpaper. Boat of men is pulled ashore by a single figure. Scene is framed by leaning trees, arched bridge and city in background. Block-printed in three browns, two greens, orange, blue, aqua and lavender. Irisé ground in blues and pink within scenery vignettes, other areas a...

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 283308

Accession Number: 2001.281.234

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments mounted on paperboard. Landscape figure pattern depicting two vignettes on a background of small chevrons and edged with a foliate pattern. The vignettes are of a seated woman in Napoleonic dress with a boy in riding attire carrying fruit and, in smaller scale, a building with ...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 283309

Accession Number: 2001.281.235.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Landscape Figure paper with vignette of family clad in tartan listening to seated bagpipe player. Background of small repeating sprigs with border design of sprig stripes and abstract stripe along both selvedges. A rosette figure is positioned below the vignette. Block-printed...

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 283310

Accession Number: 2001.281.236

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of reproduction Gothic wallpaper affixed to paperboard. This scenery figure pattern is an early reproduction of an 1845 French block print depicting views of a Gothic pulpit, pier, and arches. Roller-printed in four olives, two yellows, white and light orange on a light olive groun...

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283311

Accession Number: 2001.281.237

Mug

Stoneware mug. Concave body with shaped base and reeded loop handle. Mustard yellow with a wide beige band and two narrow brown bands around middle.

Maker: unknown

Material: stoneware (pottery)

GUSN: 283312

Accession Number: 1970.355

Mug

Earthenware mug. Shaped base with loop handle and leaf terminals. Wide band of light gray with four white bullseye circles and black "S" shapes painted on top. Light blue bands at rim and base.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 283313

Accession Number: 1970.402

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment affixed to paperboard. Rococo Revival flower and scroll pattern. Roller-printed in two grays, three blues, three greens, three pinks, white and red on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1860-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283314

Accession Number: 2001.281.238

Wallpaper

Three wallpaper fragments removed from the back of a painting from Harwich, Massachusetts. The wallpaper is striped with several different stylized designs, including a plaid, a vine, and chevron with dots. Block-printed in dark green varnish on blue ground.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 283315

Accession Number: 2001.281.239A-C

Wallpaper

Seven fragments of rainbow wallpaper in which the rainbow colors are applied to the pattern rather than the ground. The colors blend from brown (possibly red when first printed) to yellow to blue. Garlands of flowers, ribbon, and bows frame a vertically repeating figure of a fountain supported by ...

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 283316

Accession Number: 2001.281.240A-G

Carrington House Wallpaper Panel Fragments

Fragments cut from the top (fragments "A-E") and bottom (fragments "F-I") of an unused Chinese wallpaper panel. Handpainted birds and peacocks perched amid flowering tree with butterflies, white ground. Originally from the Captain Edward Carrington House, Providence, Rhode Island.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), hand-painted

GUSN: 283317

Accession Number: 2001.281.241.A-I

Wallpaper

Seven wallpaper fragments removed from a trunk from Cape Cod. Dorothy Waterhouse describes this as her "first paper," refering to it as "Black Bird." Poorly preserved, this blue ingrain paper's pattern is very faded. It appears to be a parrot perched on a delicate fabric swag with floral elements...

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: (Manufacturer)

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

GUSN: 283318

Accession Number: 2001.281.242A-G

Woven mat

Small octagonal shaped woven mat made of leaf fibers from Hawaii. Traditional weaving techniques were used to create the checked pattern, with the ends of the leaves twisted and woven back into the body of the mat. Mats like this were widely available in Hawaii for the tourist market.

Maker: unknown

Material: leaf (plant material)

GUSN: 272196

Accession Number: 2006.44.3683

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. White stripes on a beigh ground. Stripes are further decorated with alternating bead and reel design and floral medallion design both in gold metallic. Straight repeat.

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272197

Accession Number: 1999.201

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern composed of figurative vignette of a male and a female child with dog alternating with basket of flowers primarily in red-brown and orange. Diaper pattern background and vertical stripe in a loral leaf motif in mauve. Printed on pink ground. Straight repeat. Pin h...

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272199

Accession Number: 1999.202

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Kapa

Long fragment of a five layered kapa moe [Hawaiian sleeping cover] with one sewn edge. Bottom four layers are white with an embossed design of small squares containing a small circle. This pattern is known as "upena pupa" and is created by using a carved kapa beater during the production process. T...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272200

Accession Number: 2006.44.3684

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Vine and floral trail pattern printed in metallic gold on polished white ground. Straight repeat. Mauny paper in this pattern is named "Damas Louise XV" (221 and 231). Brunschwig & Fils paper in this pattern is named "Pommier."

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272201

Accession Number: 1999.203

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Arabesque pattern of repeating urn with roses, enveloped by lattice-work, scrolled foliage, and beaded garlands. Printed in two blues, orange, red, white and brown on a beige ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272202

Accession Number: 1999.204

Game Piece (Ulumaika)

Hawaiian ulumaika, or game piece. Gray stone disc has a flat edge, convex top and bottom. The game of ulumaika was played on a prepared surface. The aim of the game was to throw or bowl the stone disc between two closely placed sticks without touching them.

Maker: unknown

Material: stone (rock)

GUSN: 272204

Accession Number: 2006.44.3685

Wallpaper

Two half rolls of unused border wallpaper. The two half rolls were once a single roll. They have been cut in half. Each half roll has four uncut borders. Trellis motif in a chevron pattern. Printed in green, gary, and black on cream ground. Straight repeat. Pin holes visible.

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272205

Accession Number: 1999.205AB

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern composed of figurative vignette of a male and a female child with dog alternating with basket of flowers primarily in red-brown and orange. Diaper pattern background and vertical stripe in a loral leaf motif in mauve. Printed on pink ground. Straight repeat. Pin ho...

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272207

Accession Number: 2000.176

Wallpaper

An unused roll and two samples of wallpaper. Pattern composed of cherub with garland alternating with large rose sprig. Garland stripe and dot background. Printed in green, pink, red, two grays and cream on blue-green ground. Straight repeat. Roll made of individual pasted sheets simulating handmad...

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272208

Accession Number: 2000.177A-C

Tapa Bag

Handled bag made of tapa cloth, from Samoa or Tonga. Bag is heavily decorated with triangles, chevrons, curved lines, diamonds, and circles. Patterns have been rubbed into the fabric, some areas are highlighted with a heavy brown overpaint. The inside of the bag is lined with cotton. The bag was pro...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272209

Accession Number: 2006.44.3686

Woven Fan

Woven leaf fan with handle from Hawaii. Traditional weaving techniques were used to create the spade-shaped fan. The woven leaf strips are all of a similar width and are woven in a classic check design. Narrow leaf strips have been interspersed along the outer edge and the middle sections of the fan...

Maker: unknown

Material: leaf (plant material)

GUSN: 272210

Accession Number: 2006.44.3687

Woven Fan

Woven leaf fan with handle from Hawaii. Traditional weaving techniques were used to create the leaf shaped fan. Wider width leaves were used at the base of the fan and wrap around the handle, narrow width leaves were used to create the scalloped edge. The word "ALOHA" has been woven into the top edg...

Maker: unknown

Material: leaf (plant material)

GUSN: 272211

Accession Number: 2006.44.3688

Wallpaper

Fragment of first layer of six layers of wallpaper removed from a house in Schrewsbury, Massachusetts. Wallpaper has a diamond pattern with alternating small diamonds and stylized fleur de lis where larger diamond pattern intersects. Printed in blue, brown and cream on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272212

Accession Number: 2000.509.1

Wallpaper

Fragment of second layer of six of wallpaper. Pattern of honeycomb and floral sprig printed in olive green, orange, and white on a cream ground.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272213

Accession Number: 2000.509.2