Historic New England

Luggage rack

Folding luggage rack. Holding the top ends are two pieces of cloth that are blue, brown, and white. The legs swell in the areas that attatch to something else. There are two square stretchers.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 222261

Accession Number: 2006.44.2614

Coffee Jug

Gray glazed stoneware jug with loop handle and cork stopper. Stamped in blue on exterior: "ONE GALLON ORIENTAL CONDENSED COFFEE MANF'C BY OREINTAL TEA CO., BOSTON, MASS."

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: stoneware (pottery), glazing (coating)

GUSN: 222289

Accession Number: 2004.10

Boa

Black feather boa with black silk lining

Maker: unknown

Material: feather (material), silk (textile)

GUSN: 222294

Accession Number: 2004.11.1

Box

Gray oval box with lid. 2004.11.2a-lid and 2004.112b-box.

Date: 1899-1905

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard

GUSN: 222297

Accession Number: 2004.11.2AB

Oil painting on canvas; depicts hill in foreground that overlooks the harbor with Boston neck in the mid-ground with State House, church steeples and other building visible; several figures in foreground include three men and one woman on horseback (at PR), three shepherds and two sheep (at PL) and ...

Date: c. 1845

Maker: Attributed to De Grailly, Victor, 1804-1889 (Artist) Shreve, Crump & Low (Vendor)

Material: oil paint (paint), unprimed canvas

GUSN: 222303

Accession Number: 2004.12

Ash Tray in Original Box

Autumn leaf shaped ash receiver in original box- made by Chase Brass & Copper Company.

Date: 1935-1945

Maker: Chase Brass & Copper Company (Manufacturer)

Material: chromium

GUSN: 222314

Accession Number: 2010.13.1

Coaster set in original box

Four piece coaster set in original box-Chase Brass & Copper Company.

Date: 1935-1945

Maker: Chase Brass & Copper Company (Manufacturer)

Material: chromium

GUSN: 222315

Accession Number: 2010.13.2

Buffet warming oven

Electric buffet warming oven-Chase Brass & Copper Company. Chrome, cylindrical, with grooved wooden base and handles. Interior iron heating element/food warming plate.

Date: 1935-1945

Maker: Chase Brass & Copper Company (Manufacturer)

Material: chrome steel, walnut (wood), cast iron

GUSN: 222316

Accession Number: 2010.13.3

Oak Armchair

Oak arm chair fastened with wooden pegs. Turned legs and stretchers with blocks. Matted seat. Back has three slats with circles and crosses. Crest circle with cross in center flanked by two ball capped finials. Made from oak timbers saved from the Hancock House (Razed 1863).

Date: 1877

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 222338

Accession Number: 2004.13

Teapot Sculpture

White unglazed plaster teapot, with ear molded into side.

Date: 2003

Maker: unknown

Material: plaster

GUSN: 222339

Accession Number: 2004.15

Drying Rack

Wooden drying racks

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 222344

Accession Number: 2004.16

Chamber Pot

Creamware chamberpot

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: creamware

GUSN: 222346

Accession Number: 2004.17

Easy Chair

Boston Chippendale mahogany easy chair with reproduction red wool damask upholstery; serpentine crest with shaped wings over outscrolled arms; carved cabriole front legs with claw and ball feet, joined by block and turned stretchers to maple chamfered raking rear legs. Reupholstered by SNPEA in 1993...

Date: c. 1760-1780

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), turning (shaping process), joining, upholstering, mahogany (wood), maple (wood), wool (textile)

GUSN: 222348

Accession Number: 2004.18

Wallpaper

Six fragments; flowers, dots and stripes forming a striped pattern block-printed in white on a blue ground on wove paper.

Date: 1795-1810

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 222352

Accession Number: 2004.22.1

Wallpaper

Several fragments; swag pattern block-printed in black and white on a pink ground; bid paper.

Date: 1795-1810

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 222353

Accession Number: 2004.22.2

Wallpaper

Four fragments; floral and leaf pattern block-printed in green and gray with black pin dots on white ground; laid paper.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 222354

Accession Number: 2004.22.3

Wallpaper

Fragment of border paper; scroll pattern block-printed in tan and white; white dot and orange stripe edge; light tan ground; continuous paper.

Date: ca. 1830

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 222359

Accession Number: 2004.22.4

Luggage rack

Folding luggage rack. Holding the top ends are two pieces of cloth that are red, pink, and cream. The legs swell in the areas that attatch to something else. There are two square stretchers.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 222360

Accession Number: 2006.44.2615

Chest of drawers

Chippendale style maple tall chest of drawers. Features six drawers with flattened urn shaped brass pulls, central drop, and ball and claw feet.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood), brass (alloy)

GUSN: 222361

Accession Number: 2006.44.2578

Shield

Shield in a rounded-edged diamond shape, made of thick animal hide with a bamboo handle pole extending above and below the top and bottom edges of the shield. The bamboo pole runs down the center of the side that faces the body and is affixed to the inner side of the shield with strips of hide that ...

Maker: unknown

Material: hide (collagenous material), bamboo (material)

GUSN: 222362

Accession Number: 2006.44.2603

Toilet tissue

"The Statler Flat Toilet Tissue" product is a blue thin cardboard box that contains sheets of toilet tissue pieces.

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard, tissue paper

GUSN: 199067

Accession Number: 2006.44.2470

Benefacto Linimet

Minilla colored box with black writing on the front. The box is for Benefacto Liniment and is begining to tear on theuppwer right side of the opening flap.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199070

Accession Number: 2006.44.2434

Dyspepsia cure box

Small white box that opens by pushing the lid off over the box. Black writing describes the product and diretions on three sizes of thebox.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199073

Accession Number: 2006.44.2436

Dyspepsia cure box

Small white box that opens by pushing the lid off over the box. Black writing describes the product and diretions on three sizes of the box.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199077

Accession Number: 2006.44.2440

Loxol

Loxol pain expeller liniment box. White box with black writing and imagery. The images are of womanly figures surounding a globe and an anchor. Box top is falling apart and discoloration is occuring on box folds.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199088

Accession Number: 2006.44.2431

Light bulb

Very round light bulb with glas tip at the top of it and a gold colored metal bottom piece. The bulb has three brown sticker inscriptions on it.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), metal

GUSN: 199090

Accession Number: 2006.44.2469

Light bulb

Tear drop shaped light bulb with a small glass tip at the top of it and a gold colored metal base. There are thin wires and fuse pieces in the interior of the bulb.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), metal

GUSN: 199099

Accession Number: 2006.44.2468

Light bulb

Pear shaped light bulb. Gold colored metal bottom with thin wires and fuse pieces. There is a small glass point at the light bulb top.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), metal

GUSN: 199102

Accession Number: 2006.44.2467

Bock YCA cigar box

Wooden cigar box with multiple stickers in Spanish text.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 199116

Accession Number: 2006.44.2465

Print

Photolithograph of the towers of Oxford. The Foreground is tree foliage. The middleground consists of Oxford with two main streets. The background features hills and a large sky. The print has a border with a Latin inscription. There is additional text below the title and a key identifying the build...

Maker: Reproduction of Way, Thomas Robert, 1861-1913 (Artist) Solatia M. Taylor Co. (Framer)

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

GUSN: 199123

Accession Number: 2006.44.629

Painting

Small profile portrait painting or a woman wearing a Renaissance style green-blue dress with puffed sleeves. The woman is also wearing a pearl headdress with an aqua feather. She has rings on her fingers and is holding a book. The background is brown. The wood frame is painted gold with carved leaf ...

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 199131

Accession Number: 2006.44.630

Photograph

Black and white photograph of Florlence cathedral. The picture was taken facing the facade with the large dome in back. In the foreground is the Florence bapistry. Mountains and buildings surround the cathedral.The wood frame and stained dark brown.

Maker: Gardner, William H. (Framer)

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

GUSN: 199135

Accession Number: 2006.44.631

Throw pillow

Small square sage green pillow. Sewn swirly and wavy design all surrounding a triangle in the center.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199139

Accession Number: 2006.44.2504

Portrait of Jane Appleton Phillips

Oil painting on canvas portrait of Jane Appleton Phillips. She has brown eyes and brown hair that is parted down the middle and tied back with a piece of red fabric. She is wearing a white shawl around her shoulders and a multi-colored dress. The background is a cloudy mountain scene. The wood frame...

Date: 1837

Maker: Putnam, David A (Painter)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 199141

Accession Number: 2006.44.632

Tablecloth

Off white and discolored table cloth with crocheted pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 199142

Accession Number: 2006.44.2506

Tablecloth

Off white and discolored table cloth with crocheted design.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 199147

Accession Number: 2006.44.2507

Tablecloth

Large off white and discolored tablecloth with crocheted detail.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 199149

Accession Number: 2006.44.2508

Sheet

White discolored sheet.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 199151

Accession Number: 2006.44.2505

Little Boy Whittling

Oil painting on canvas of a little boy whittling. The boy is seated and is wearing a straw hat, red bow tie, a white collared gray suit, and red and gray striped socks. He has brown hair and is actively whittling. In the background is a toy ship. The painting is signed in the bottom right corner. Th...

Maker: J.C. Lowery (Framer)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 199153

Accession Number: 2006.44.633

Lampshade

Glass lampshade. Basic round opening, no design.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 199157

Accession Number: 2006.44.2499

Lampshade

Glass lampshade with ridging vertically placed that comes to a point at the opening of the shade.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 199167

Accession Number: 2006.44.2500

Lampshade

Bulbous glass lampshade with soft ridging down its suface vertically.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 199170

Accession Number: 2006.44.2498

Boats off Calais

Black and white print of boats in rough water. The center of the print features a raft holding five people approaching a larger ship. Another sail boat is in the distance to the left. Additional boats and buildings are in the far right. The wood frame is brown with a gold interior trim.

Maker: Cousen, John, 1804-1880 (Engraver) J. F. Cabot & Brother (Dealer)

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

GUSN: 199171

Accession Number: 2006.44.634

Glass lampshade

Glass lampshade with an etched design of leaves and verries in groups of three around the midsection. There are also dots around the opening of the lampshade.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 199175

Accession Number: 2006.44.2502

Lampshade

Glass lampshade with a verticlly ruffled design. The base is in the shape of flower petals.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 199179

Accession Number: 2006.44.2501

Lampshade

Large ornate glass lampshade. It is very round and cinches at its midpoint, then expands outward with rounded and pointed edges at its opening for decoration. Leaf design. Around the opening where the shade hooks to the light there are curvy leaf designs and four pairs of deer face to face.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 199182

Accession Number: 2006.44.2503

A Westerly View of the Colledges in Cambridge New England

Sepia print of building in background and people in foreground. Five buildings from left to right include a small Greek revival building, a four-story Georgian building, a perpendicular buidling with cupola, a three-story building with fourth floor dormers, and a perpendicular building with a clock.

Date: October 1916

Maker: Reproduction of Revere, Paul, 1735-1818 (Engraver) Chadwick, Joseph (Designer) Smith, Sidney Lawton, 1845-1929 (Engraver) Essex Institute (Copyright holder)

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

GUSN: 199305

Accession Number: 2006.44.635

The Gate of the Notch of the White Mountains, with the Notch House

Color lithograph with mountains and a building. A large central peak dominates the background with smaller hills on either side in the foreground with a notch carved out between them. A white house or hotel with a white rear building dominates the left foreground and a dead tree stump is in the righ...

Maker: Sprague, Isaac, 1811-1895 (Delineator) B.W. Thayer & Co. (Lithographer) Goodspeed's Bookstore (Framer)

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

GUSN: 199309

Accession Number: 2006.44.636

Stephen Clarendon Phillips

Black and white photograph of Stephen Clarendon Phillips sitting in a chair with his right arm showing. He is wearing a waistcoat, a vest with a floral design, a white shirt with a high collar and a black bow tie. The photograph has been enhanced with pencil, including details on the chair, hair, an...

Date: ca. 1850

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 199312

Accession Number: 2006.44.637

Abingdon Berkshire

Black and white framed print of a landscape with cows at water. The foreground features several cows drinking from a river. A person on a mule is in the left foreground. People working with a wagon are at the right and a small boat with sails is in the center. The sun occupies the center sky and a b...

Maker: Cousen, John, 1804-1880 (Engraver) J. F. Cabot & Brother (Dealer)

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

GUSN: 199315

Accession Number: 2006.44.638

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