Historic New England

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Narrow, two blues stripe on a wider beige stripe which alternates with a stripe of white, horizontal pin stripes. Straight match.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178967

Accession Number: 1980.237.1

Wallpaper

Fragment. Small-scale diaper pattern. Raised coffer-like design in tan and white enclosing dark green field.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178968

Accession Number: 1971.47

Wallpaper

Fragments. Overall pattern not discernable. Raised design on black, textured ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178969

Accession Number: 1980.238

Wallpaper

Fragment. Grid of provencals in maroon and white with patera centers and white solid circles at the corners. Printed on unground paper.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178970

Accession Number: 1971.46

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Small-scale purple flower with grisaille leaves framed by ogees edged on rootlets and reverse printed floral wreaths. Printed on polished white ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178972

Accession Number: 1971.152

Wallpaper

Fragment. Neat vine and stripe. Continuous vertical stripe of foliate ellipses framing wheat. Printed in white on cinnamon ground.

Date: 1796-1815

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178973

Accession Number: 1976.405

Wallpaper

Fragment. Large-scale Renaissance strapwork entwined and pierced by a foliate vine. Printed in grey on a field of green and maroon on a polished white ground. Straight match.

Date: 1855-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178974

Accession Number: 1987.7

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Flowers in two blues printed over field of two gray flowers (roses) and leaves. Printed on unground paper.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178975

Accession Number: 1987.3

Sample. Pattern consists of the interior of a building highlighting its architecture. Probably Indian or Egyptian in style with pointed arches, peapod ornament, columns with lotus leaves. Printed in green, brown and white on an unground.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178976

Accession Number: 1987.16A-D

Wallpaper

Fragment. Allover C-scrolls and flowers in brown and two greys, accented by two rose blossoms in two pinks, crimson and brown and outlined by radiating pin dots. Straight match.

Date: 1855-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178977

Accession Number: 1987.6

Wallpaper

Cut sample of Rococo Revival style. Ungrounded paper with pin-dot patterning in brown. Scrolled foliage printed in yellow-gold and brown; roses printed in green and brown.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178978

Accession Number: 1987.9

Wallpaper

Fragment. Large-scale, allover, stylized flowers in mauve/pink, on a green striped field on a polished white ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178979

Accession Number: 1987.11

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper border sample. Maltese cross alternating with squares of Chinese lattice design and bordered top and bottom with smaller, repeated Maltese crosses. Printed in yellow, red, and maroon on a tan gound.

Date: 1875-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178980

Accession Number: 1987.12

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Vine and stripe design. Flowering vine, wisteria (?) printed in blue and light blue and alternating with vertical stripe of scrolls composed of narrow horizontal lines. Printed on unground paper. Straight match.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178981

Accession Number: 1987.14

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Large-scale mixed flower bouquet. Anemones, peonies, morning glories and others printed in four blues with grey shadows on polished white ground.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178982

Accession Number: 1987.2

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Allover flowers (roses?) and foliage. Printed in dark brown, brown and tan on unground paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178983

Accession Number: 1987.4

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Floral wreaths on a blue field framed within plasterwork coffers in two browns and cream on an ashler block ground. Printed on a taupe ground.

Date: 1850-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178984

Accession Number: 1987.5

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Foliate scrolls and strapwork in dark grey framing pink roses, small blue and purple flowers and climbing vines. Bordered on the right by an ashlar column entwined by berried ivy.

Date: 1845-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178985

Accession Number: 1987.8

Wallpaper

Fragment of floral stripe wallpaper. Continuous vine of entwined wild roses and strawberries and flanked by a foliage vine (perhaps ivy). Printed in white and tan on a polished buff ground. Straight match.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178986

Accession Number: 1987.13AB

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Imitation woodgrain planks. Printed in brown and tan on unground paper.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178987

Accession Number: 1987.15AB

Wallpaper

Fragments. Anglo-Japanese design composed of palm-like foliage and stylized flowers against a background of irregularly-sized geometric patterns. Drop match.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178988

Accession Number: 1968.71.12

Wallpaper

Fragments. Diaper pattern. Diamonds formed by small stepped diamonds with larger diamonds at midsection and framing centered diamonds of blue, yellow and red edged with white brattishing. Printed on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178989

Accession Number: 1968.71.7

Wallpaper

Fragment. Allover meandering flowers with thick stems. Printed in olive, orange and grey on a pale yellow reverse oriented field on unground paper.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178990

Accession Number: 1968.71.13

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Rainbow medallions of stylized flowers and foliage printed in blue, blending to yellow on blue rag paper.

Date: 1830-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178991

Accession Number: 1968.71.1

Wallpaper

Fragments. Reform style diaper pattern. Diamonds formed by intersecting unground lines with white reverse printed fields. Tri-lobed leaves in brown, red and green sprouting red berries centered in each diamond.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178992

Accession Number: 1968.71.10

Wallpaper

Fragments. Rectangular panels filled with flowers and single flower heads. Printed in red, yellow and ochre on a black ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178993

Accession Number: 1968.71.11

Wallpaper

Fragment. Interlocking lattice design in brown and white with blue octagons in centers. Printed on unground paper.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178994

Accession Number: 1968.71.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Reform style pattern composed of stylized foliate elements on a blue reverse printed field within white diamonds with scalloped edges and alternating with smaller quatrefoils on a maroon reverse printed field. All printed on unground paper.

Date: 1865-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178995

Accession Number: 1968.71.5

Wallpaper

Fragments. Diaper pattern. Diamonds formed by unground paper with white reverse printed fields. Stylized flower within a medallion at the intersections. Printed in red, black and white.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178996

Accession Number: 1968.71.6

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Woodgrain stripes bordered by narrow brown stripes, narrow tighter grained woodgrain stripe and tan stripe. Printed in two browns, tan and red. Straight match.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178997

Accession Number: 1968.71.8

Wallpaper

Two wallpaper fragments. Woodgrain paper. Wide, alternating stripes of imitation bird's-eye maple and pine planking. Printed in brown, tan and red on beige ground. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178998

Accession Number: 1968.71.9

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Stripe. Ivy leaves with red flower elements alternating with stripe of possibly a moire pattern in white on pale yellow ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178999

Accession Number: 1968.71.14B

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Pieces too small to determine design, but it is probably a mid-sized floral medallion. Printed in green and white on unground paper.

Date: 1835-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179000

Accession Number: 1968.71.14C

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral stripe. Continuous berried and flowered vine in green and red and bordered by strapwork stripe in tan on unground paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179001

Accession Number: 1968.71.14A

Wallpaper

Fragments. Allover floral design of daisy-like flower heads in red, pink and blue surrounded by dense field of foliage printed in green, red and blue-grey on light blue ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179002

Accession Number: 1968.72.2

Wallpaper

Fragments. Floral trail of orchid-like flowers printed in light blue, pink and red with a green and yellow striped stamen, all outlined in black. Printed on a beige polished ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179003

Accession Number: 1968.72.3

Wallpaper

Fragments. Ashlar block pattern of imitation granite. Hexagon or octagon blocks divided into organic / irreglualrly shaped areas and printed freehand with black and white speckles on grey ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179004

Accession Number: 1968.72.4

Wallpaper

Fragments. Appears to be allover design of loosely arranged flowers and scrolls in grey and black on a light grey ground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179005

Accession Number: 1968.72.1

Wallpaper

Fragments. Diaper pattern. Diamonds formed by reverse printed lines revealing unground paper and enclosing centered diamonds with floral elements on a white field.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179006

Accession Number: 1971.178.2

Wallpaper

Fragments. Foliate stripe. Green and white stripes with meandering foliate vine reverse printed on unground paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179007

Accession Number: 1971.178.1

Wallpaper

Fragment. Diaper pattern. Quatrefoil (flower) within segmented diamond marked with parallel diagonal lines. Printed in brown and white on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179008

Accession Number: 1968.71.2

Wallpaper

Fragment. Alternating green and white moire stripes bordered by honeycomb pattern and stylized leaf motif and berries. Printed on unground paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179009

Accession Number: 1968.71.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments fashioned into a collage affixed to colored paper and paperboard. Arts and crafts style papers. Roses with a figure 8 stem. Stripes of linear elements, squares and dots. Geometric shapes with hard edges juxtaposed with curved forms. Printed in two greens, pink red and white on a...

Date: 1905-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179010

Accession Number: 1976.3

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Reform style, stripe pattern. Stylized floral bouquet in between stripes. Along and on the stripes are chevrons and decorative patterning and stylized leaf ornaments. Printed in metallic gold, tan, brown and teal on a grey ground.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179011

Accession Number: 1922.709

Wallpaper

Unused sample of three uncut borders. Floral pattern of roses and daisies in a scalloped framework. Printed in two browns, cream, tan, three greens and burgundy on a polished white ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179012

Accession Number: 1918.896

Wallpaper

Fragment. The border design is a very simple drapery paper with tassels in between each drapery swag. Black painted on a yellow-beige ground.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 179013

Accession Number: 1986.1080

Women's dress

Blue light weight cotton women's dress dotted with white threads. The calf length dress has three-fourths length flared sleeves. At the base of the flare is a white thread border that goes around the sleeve. At the top of the sleeve the border makes a step pattern upward. In the void created by the ...

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 190064

Accession Number: 2006.44.1278

Women's dress

Cream and navy floral patterned ankle length women's dress with matching belt and jacket. The material is a sheer cream colored silk with navy blue floral pattern. The neckline of the dress is bordered by an accordion pleat that lies flat. The collar ties at the front and has long ribbon ties. The s...

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 190065

Accession Number: 2006.44.1279A-C

Women's dress

Green calf length women's dress with three-fourths length sleeves and cream embroidered dot and net embroidery details. The v-shaped neckline is bordered by triangular shaped net inserts. The net is detailed with cream and green embroidered diamond and triangular shapes. There is a cotton modesty p...

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), net (textile), embroidery (visual works)

GUSN: 190066

Accession Number: 2006.44.1280

Women's dress

Blue and white leaf patterned calf-length women's dress with three-fourths length sleeves. The sleeves are adorned with a blue fin-shaped flap of pleated fabric and a stitched on tab of leaf patterned fabric along the edge of the fin-shaped flap. The shoulders have three darts on each side. The neck...

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material)

GUSN: 190067

Accession Number: 2006.44.1281

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