Historic New England

Bellows

Wood, leather, and brass bellows painted black with red, green, and yellow leaves, and flowers. Nozzle and fittings made of brass.

Date: 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), leather, paint (coating)

GUSN: 288526

Accession Number: 1958.300

Card table

Folding card table with top having ogee edges and ovolo corners, square reeded legs and ball feet.

Date: 1790-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 288527

Accession Number: 1958.289

Serving tray

Oval sheet metal (tin?) serving tray, painted red on bottom and black on sides with yellow stripe along edges. Flared rim.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: tin and tin alloy, paint (coating)

GUSN: 288528

Accession Number: 1958.290

Tea Service

Twenty-five piece tea service with molded lattice and floral design with pink lusterware accents. Set consists of two plates, creamer, teapot, eleven teacups, and ten saucers.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 288529

Accession Number: 1958.310

Wallpaper used as a book cover or document folder from Fryeburg, Maine. Wallpaper pattern of floral medallions on wheat background. Two floral sprays, one of poppies and the other of cornflowers, are vibrantly and naturalistically block-printed in shades of orange, blue, green, yellow and brown. The...

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288530

Accession Number: 2001.281.593

Honeybee Wallpaper

Fragment of "Honeybee" wallpaper, designed by Candace Wheeler in 1881, from a house in Bath, Maine. In the pattern honeybees fly among circling floral vines on a background pattern of honeycomb. Block-printed in metallic gold, metallic silver, nude, tan, brown, yellow on light blue ground. The pa...

Date: 1881

Maker: Wheeler, Candace (Designer)

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

GUSN: 288563

Accession Number: 2001.281.594

Wallpaper

Two matching fragments of wallpaper from Bath, Maine. Pattern features motifs and naturalistic style of Japanese art popular with Aesthetic Movement designers. Cranes in flying and standing poses among a variety of flowering plants with a large tree branch or vine meandering back and forth across t...

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288565

Accession Number: 2001.281.595AB

Wallpaper

Five fragments of wallpaper from Bath, Maine. Paper is printed with stylized, large sunflower blossoms popular with Aestheic Movement designers. Grasses and petals strewn between the flowers. Roller-printed in pale yellow and metallic gold on blue-gray ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 288566

Accession Number: 2001.281.596A-E

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of an wallpaper border from Bath, Maine. Dense floral pattern of yellow, burnt red, and peach flowers and buds on swaying, green leafy stems on a gold, textured background. The flowers are framed by outer ribbons of black with flat, six-petal gold flowers and inner ribbons of inward facing...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288567

Accession Number: 2001.281.597

Wallpaper Sample Book

Trade catalog or sample book titled "No. 1 / 1912 / Alfred Peats Prize Wallpaper - New York - Boston - Chicago." Catalog is bound with front and back covers of heavy dark brown paper embossed with rococo scrolls framing a gold quatrefoil shape containing the title. Catalog has a ribbon handle affixe...

Date: 1912

Maker: Alfred Peats Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), textile materials, ceiling papers

GUSN: 288571

Accession Number: 2001.281.715.1

Wall mirror

Pier mirror with frame painted brown and yellow with gilt highlights. Sides half-round with beaded edge. Interior space above mirror painted with fruit-- pineapples, grapes, and roses, leaves.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: sheet glass, silvering, wood (plant material), paint (coating)

GUSN: 288572

Accession Number: 1958.294

Wallpaper Border or Frieze

Fragment of unused wallpaper frieze from Saco, Maine. Rose bouquets are suspended upside down from a bow knot and delicate floral festoon. Upper and lower scrolling borders. Roller-printed in pink, red, dark maroon and metallic gold on rainbow ground of pale green and rose.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: Janeway & Carpenter (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 288726

Accession Number: 2001.281.608

Rug

Wool rug with blue field containing three guls, first two patterned with tarantula and the third with rosettes. Guls are surrounded with rosettes and bolehs. Border with star shapes.

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 288727

Accession Number: 1958.315

Rug

Nearly square wool rug with two diamond shaped guls within large blue hexagon on red field patterned with blue and turquoise rosettes. Rosette border on blue with diagonal quadrilateral guard on each side.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 288728

Accession Number: 1958.316

Prayer rug

Rectangular wool prayer rug with blue field patterned with rosettes and two connected guls. Diagonal stripe border with floral guards. Primary colors blue, red, and green.

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 288729

Accession Number: 1958.317

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-380 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has allover diaper pattern with stylized quatrefoils contained within diamond-shaped motifs. Screen-printed in dark pink and white on a pink ground. P...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing

GUSN: 288730

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.22

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-384 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of repeating octagons enclosing stylized flowers. Octagons are separated by square medallions composed of four palmette-shaped motifs. Scr...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing

GUSN: 288732

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.23

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-384 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of repeating octagons enclosing stylized flowers. Octagons are separated by square medallions composed of four palmette-shaped motifs. Scr...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing

GUSN: 288734

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.24

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 2-384 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of repeating octagons enclosing stylized flowers. Octagons are separated by square medallions composed of four palmette-shaped motifs. Scr...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing

GUSN: 288735

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.25

Portrait

Black-and-white photograph of Alvin Foye in oval gilt and gesso frame with beaded edges.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: photographic prints, wood (plant material), glass (material), gesso, gilding

GUSN: 288736

Accession Number: 1958.287.5

Wallpaper

Three fragments of wallpaper from an house in Squantum, Maine. Pattern of colorful birds in leafy branches over a diamond pattern. Additional leafy branches in shadow in the background. Block-printed in blue, orange, yellow, brown, gray, four greens and black on light blue ground.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288737

Accession Number: 2001.281.609A-C

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-385 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of elongated quatrefoil medallions. Screen-printed in metallic gold on a taupe ground. Part of a collection of unbound samples housed in a...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288738

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.26

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-385 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of elongated quatrefoil medallions. Screen-printed in metallic gold on a taupe ground. Part of a collection of unbound samples housed in a...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288739

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.27

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-385 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of elongated quatrefoil medallions. Screen-printed in metallic gold on a taupe ground. Part of a collection of unbound samples housed in a...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288740

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.28

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-385 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of elongated quatrefoil medallions. Screen-printed in metallic gold on a taupe ground. Part of a collection of unbound samples housed in a...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288741

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.29

Portrait

Black-and-white photograph of Alvin Foye Sortwell in oval gilt gesso frame ornamented with fish scale, beading and gilt.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: photographs, glass (material), wood (plant material), gilding

GUSN: 288742

Accession Number: 1958.287.4

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-385 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of elongated quatrefoil medallions. Screen-printed in metallic gold on a taupe ground. Part of a collection of unbound samples housed in a...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288743

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.30

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-385 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of elongated quatrefoil medallions. Screen-printed in metallic gold on a taupe ground. Part of a collection of unbound samples housed in a...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288744

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.31

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-385 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of elongated quatrefoil medallions. Screen-printed in metallic gold on a taupe ground. Part of a collection of unbound samples housed in a...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288746

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.32

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-406 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has large-scale medallion stripe pattern with highly stylized motifs including acanthus leaves, flowers and leaves. Screen-printed in green and white ...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing

GUSN: 288747

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.33

Wallpaper

Fragment of Anglo-Japanese floral wallpaper from West Buxton, Maine. Stylized flowers and diagonal striping formed by a patchwork of geometric patterns. Flowers are reminiscent of Persian design. Roller-printed in pale yellow, red, brown, dark olive, and black on olive ground. Newsprint affixed to...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288748

Accession Number: 2001.281.610

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-406 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has large-scale medallion stripe pattern with highly stylized motifs including acanthus leaves, flowers and leaves. Screen-printed in green and white ...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing

GUSN: 288751

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.34

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-406 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has large-scale medallion stripe pattern with highly stylized motifs including acanthus leaves, flowers and leaves. Screen-printed in green and white ...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing

GUSN: 288752

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.35

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 1-406 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has large-scale medallion stripe pattern with highly stylized motifs including acanthus leaves, flowers and leaves. Screen-printed in green and white ...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing

GUSN: 288753

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.36

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in pattern number LP 3-384 part of the "Liberty" collection produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Wallpaper has pattern of elongated quatrefoil medallions. Screen-printed in genuine gold leaf on a cream ground. Part of a collection of unbound samples housed ...

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), screen printing, gold leaf

GUSN: 288756

Accession Number: 2001.281.714.37

Wallpaper border

Fragment of a wide floral border from Westbrook, Maine with fragment of attached Anglo-Japanese sidewall (see 2001.281.611.2ab). Floral border featuring roses, sunflowers and acanthus leaves with upper and lower border of stylized overlapping leaves. Roller-printed in iridescent metallic copper, pu...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288757

Accession Number: 2001.281.611.1

Wallpaper

Three fragments of Anglo-Japanese wallpaper from Westbrook, Maine. Patchwork pattern of square, rectanglular and semi-circular geometric designs and Asian-influenced figures. Prominent elements include a diagonally-placed rectangle containing figures that resemble Arabic writing and a building, fram...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 288761

Accession Number: 2001.281.611.2A-C

Wallpaper Sample Folder

Paper folder holding unbound "Liberty" wallpaper samples, similiar to a Wallpaper Sample Book. Produced by Allen-Doane & Company, Inc. Gray paper with crimson printing. Contains a letter (2014.2.2) and nine folded wallpaper samples.

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288763

Accession Number: 2014.2.1

Wallpaper border

Multiple fragments of wallpaper border from West Buxton, Maine. Pattern of white and brown, undulating, oblong figures resembling floating feathers. Block-printed in brown, white and black on laid paper. Fragments (a) and (b) attached to sidewall paper 2001.281.2.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288816

Accession Number: 2001.281.612.1A-F

Wallpaper

Four wallpaper fragments with floral swag pattern from West Buxton, Maine. Floral figures and swags block-printed in orange and blue on light blue ground. Printed on uncut French book plates. Laid paper. For accompanying border fragments see 2001.281.612.1a-f

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288817

Accession Number: 2001.281.612.2A-D

Wallpaper

Small fragment of striped wallpaper. Block-printed in blue on peach ground. Wove paper, partial sheets.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288820

Accession Number: 2001.281.613

Wallpaper

Yellow and pink butterflies with black-tipped wings fly among loose sprays of flowers and grasses roller-printed in metallic gold and light blue, black, yellow, pink and gray on white ground. The paper is embossed with a horizontal rib texture.

Date: 1940-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288821

Accession Number: 2001.281.614

Wallpaper

Hand-drawn and colored wallpaper sample or pre-production mock-up. Asian figures and ceramic vessels, most on stands, on a striped background. Figures repeat, as a wallpaper pattern would, but the color of figures varies and placement is not exactly repeated. Figures are painted in greens, grays, ...

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), hand-painted

GUSN: 288884

Accession Number: 2001.281.615

Ceiling Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment printed with two ceiling corner figures from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Each corner figure is a stylized flower and palm fan placed at a 45 degree angle over a right triangle. The triangle is colored in yellow and peach and outlined in dark maroon. The outer edges of corn...

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288885

Accession Number: 2001.281.616

Ceiling Wallpaper

Unused fragment of ceiling corner paper from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Corner figure features a central gold circle with floral bouquet flanked by scrolling leaves and flowers. From the center of the bouquet rises a fan-like figure that terminates with three branches with three leaves each. Belo...

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288886

Accession Number: 2001.281.617

Newpaper printed on wallpaper

A page of the "The Stars and Stripes" newspaper, Thibodaux, Louisiana dated February 21, 1863, printed on wallpaper. Wallpaper pattern is a Renaissance Revival roller-printed floral pattern in powdery white and blue pigment on gray ground.

Date: 1863

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), newsprint

GUSN: 288887

Accession Number: 2001.281.618

Newspaper printed on wallpaper

Front page, printed in French, and back page, printed in English, of "The Thibodaux Sentinel," Thibodaux, Louisiana dated December 13, 1862 printed on wallpaper. Wallpaper is printed with a Renaissance Revival pattern with central bouquet on a shelf surrounded by c-scrolls, strapwork and floral swa...

Date: 1862

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), newsprint

GUSN: 288888

Accession Number: 2001.281.619

Advertisement printed on wallpaper

The advertisement, "For Relic Seekers," printed around 1895, is a reprint of the July 4, 1863 edition of the Vicksburg, Mississippi "Daily Citizen." It was distributed by the Gage Tool Company (1883-1919) of Vineland, New Jersey. Due to paper shortages during the siege of Vicksburg, the "Daily Citi...

Date: 1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), newsprint

GUSN: 288889

Accession Number: 2001.281.620A-D

Reproduction of newspaper printed on wallpaper

Two copies of a reproduction of the July 4, 1863 edition of the Vicksburg, Mississippi newspaper, "The Daily Citizen." Due to paper shortages during the siege of Vicksburg, the newspaper was printed on wallpaper, which this replica copies. The wallpaper is printed with a small floral medallion pat...

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), newsprint, embossed wall coverings, metallic pigment

GUSN: 288890

Accession Number: 2001.281.621.1-.2

Marketing Letter

Undated typed letter on Allen-Doane & Company letterhead. Letter describes screen printed reproduction wallpapers produced by company and provides information on how to order. Letter is included in folder cotaining loose wallpaper samples.

Date: 1950-1965

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288892

Accession Number: 2014.2.2

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