Historic New England

Wallpaper

Two rolled fragments of scenery figure wallpaper backed with canvas. Willow, bonsai and other stylized trees frame small vignettes of of Japanese figures. Roller-printed in black, maroon, green, two blues and metallic gold on ungrounded paper. Under the primary pattern is a pattern of green fleck...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 292907

Accession Number: 2001.281.1128AB

Reproduction Wallpaper

One partial roll (2001.281.841.1) and one complete roll (2001.281.841.2) of reproduction wallpaper in the "Acton Floral" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection produced by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper has an all-over floral pattern of sprigs and sprays with larg...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292908

Accession Number: 2001.281.841.1-.2

Fireboard paper with wallpaper borders

Fireboard paper framed with floral wallpaper borders and backed with fabric. Removed from board. Printed paper made specifically to cover a fireboard is block-printed with an idyllic scene of three young couples in Edwardian dress punting down a stream. One of the women serenades the group with a g...

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292909

Accession Number: 2001.281.1129

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Brocade" pattern (#23043) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper has a large-scale pattern imitating a floral brocade textile. Background is densely covered with small dots and v...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292910

Accession Number: 2001.281.842

Reproduction Wallpaper

Two partial rolls of reproduction wallpaper in the "Augustine Heard" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson as part of the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper has a pattern of scrolling branches with roses, rosebuds and foliage. Hummingbirds and butterflies are...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292911

Accession Number: 2001.281.843.1-.2

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Cameo Print" pattern (#23031) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper has an all-over repeating pattern of small oval rosettes on a field of highly abstracted flower motifs. Rolle...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292914

Accession Number: 2001.281.844

Fireboard paper with wallpaper border

Fireboard paper framed with floral wallpaper borders and backed with fabric. Removed from board. Printed paper made specifically to cover a fireboard is block-printed with a domestic scene of a family outside a country home, men on horseback ride in the background. The scene is framed by tree branc...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292915

Accession Number: 2001.281.1130

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Calico Stripe" pattern (#23141) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper pattern imitates a calico fabric with alternating stripes. One stripe has irregular borders and contains hi...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292916

Accession Number: 2001.281.845

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Chelsea Chintz" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper has repeating square-shaped motifs of stylized thistles, bleeding hearts and leaves. Roller-printed in two greens, ...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B.

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292917

Accession Number: 2001.281.846

Fireboard Wallpaper and Border

Fireboard paper framed with wallpaper border and backed with fabric. The pattern, which has lost most of its pigment, is a large oval medallion with diamond center made up of bands of scrolling lines, scrolling foliate vines, and other geometric shapes. Block-printed in green and white on gray groun...

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292918

Accession Number: 2001.281.1131

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Fantasy" pattern (#23093) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper has a floral trail pattern of delicately scrolling vines with flower blossoms and fern-like foliage. Roller-print...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B.

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292919

Accession Number: 2001.281.847

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Freetown" pattern (#23002) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallaper has a repeating pattern of large scalloped medallions containing abstracted rosettes. Medallions are separated b...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292920

Accession Number: 2001.281.848

Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper with pattern inspired by hand-painted Chinese panels popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in the United States. The wallpaper depicts a single meandering branch with a variety of different blooming flowers. Birds and parrots perch on the branch, butt...

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292921

Accession Number: 2001.281.1132

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Grape Ivy" pattern (#23031) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper has ajn all-over dennse pattern of trailing vines of grape leaves. Roller-printed in two greens, two pinks and ...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292922

Accession Number: 2001.281.849

Paper Window Shade

Unused paper window shade. Rolled shade decorated with large rectangle of orange rose buds framing a large orange rose bouquet. Roller-printed in black, taupe, two greens, two oranges, red and blue on brown ground. Brown ground applied to both sides of paper.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292923

Accession Number: 2001.281.1133

Paper Window Shade

Unused paper window shade. Rolled shade decorated with a large rectangle framing stylized vase of flowers. Flowers also decorate corners of the rectangle. Roller-printed in black, red, yellow, white, cream and two browns on brown ground. Ground applied to both sides of paper.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292924

Accession Number: 2001.281.1134

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper in the "Bayside" pattern (#23171) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company. Wallpaper has a large grid pattern with the grid being composed of densely packed small grape leaves. Each square in the grid contains three larg...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292925

Accession Number: 2001.281.850

Wallpaper

Two rolled fragments of a Chinoiserie pattern wallpaper. Colorful birds perch and fly among meandering branches with flowers and seed pods. Roller-printed in black, three greens, two blues, purple, two pinks, maroon, gray, white, yellow, brown and tan on polished black ground.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292926

Accession Number: 2001.281.1135AB

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Mary Wade" pattern (#23064) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper is printed with a geometric tile pattern featuring a stylized floral and foliate medallion in a sixteen-sided t...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292927

Accession Number: 2001.281.851

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of embossed, gilt-figure wallpaper. Branches of embossed and gilded acorns over block-printed leaves. Block-printed in two browns and tan on taupe ground.

Date: 1860-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings, gilding

GUSN: 292928

Accession Number: 2001.281.1136

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Polite Parlor" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. The wallpaper features a floral trail pattern with undulating vertical lace ribbons intertwined with roses, other flowers and ...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292929

Accession Number: 2001.281.852

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Robert Fulton" pattern (#23104) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. The wallpaper has a large-scale scenic patter which commemorates the invention of the steamship by Robert Fulton. Lar...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292930

Accession Number: 2001.281.853

Reproduction Wallpaper

Two partial rolls of reproduction wallpaper in the "Queen Anne" pattern (#23193) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. The wallpaper has a large-scale floral spray pattern featuring carnations and other flowers. Both rolls are roller-...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292932

Accession Number: 2001.281.854AB

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of striped wallpaper. Brown stripes with gold dots edged on each side by teal stripes with gold accents resembling gimp or galloon trim. Roller-printed in brown, teal and metallic gold on tan ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292933

Accession Number: 2001.281.1137

Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper with large-scale pattern of putti and other neo-classical motifs. Two putti, with a goat between them, stand on a large foliate swag wrapped with ribbon holding up a large basket of fruit. Two cockatoos are perched above the basket. Block-printed in cream and two grays on ...

Date: 1970-1980

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292935

Accession Number: 2001.281.1138

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Toll Gate" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. The wallpaper has a large scale pattern of scalloped-edged cartouches enclosed in a trellis work frame. Each cartouche contains a ...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic paint

GUSN: 292937

Accession Number: 2001.281.856

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Wilton Toile" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company. Chicago. Wallpaper has a large scenic pattern imitating a toile textile. A series of rural vignettes are shown including: a seated coupl...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292939

Accession Number: 2001.281.857

Reproduction Wallpaper

Two partial rolls of reproduction wallpaper in the "Braintree Stripe" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. The wallpaper has vertical stripes composed of six-pointed stars in circles alternating with stripes of a vine with feather-like leaves. Dividing these stripes are stripes with a geometric diamon...

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292940

Accession Number: 2001.281.858AB

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Dandelion Stripe" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has a vertical stripe pattern with two alternating stripes. One stripe has highly abstracted dandelion leaves atop two large solid stripes. The other is a highly abstracted eyelet lace motif....

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292941

Accession Number: 2001.281.859

Fresco Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of frieze or border paper from a fresco set of wallpapers. Together with matching sidewall and dado papers, this upper border would have formed panels imitating elaborate Rococo-style architectural molding. Block-printed in cream, tan and brown with green flocking and gold foil accen...

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292942

Accession Number: 2001.281.1139

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of wallpaper with diamond and tassel pattern imitating upholstery. A cord and tassels hang from diamonds framing floral sprigs. The diamonds form the corners within a larger diamond pattern. Diamonds are outlined with cord and gimp accented by round tacks. Background grid pattern ...

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292943

Accession Number: 2001.281.1140

Wallpaper

Two rolled fragments of striped wallpaper with stylized floral figures. White, purple and gray stripes appear to be applied with a pan or trough printing technique. The figures are block-printed in metallic gold, orange and black on gray ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292944

Accession Number: 2001.281.1141AB

Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper with abstracted floral medallion pattern. Roller-printed in metallic gold, brown, white and blue on olive ground.

Date: 880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292945

Accession Number: 2001.281.1142

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of wallpaper with rose and ivy medallion pattern. Block-printed in four grays and metallic gold on polished white ground.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292946

Accession Number: 2001.281.1143

Wallpaper Frieze

Partial roll of frieze wallpaper. Frieze printed with upper and lower bands of stylized flower and foliate figures in geometric fretwork. Middle band of stripes and circles. Roller-printed in two browns, peach and three greens on black ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292947

Accession Number: 2001.281.1144

Wallpaper

Partial roll of floral striped wallpaper. Meandering ribbon and loose bouquets of blue roses, daisies and other flowers over a background of blue, yellow and tan stripes. Roller-printed in light yellow, three blues, two greens, brown, taupe, tan and black on yellow ground. Paper embossed with hori...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 292948

Accession Number: 2001.281.1145

Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper with nine vignettes framed by flowers and groups of trophies. Vignettes are leisure and domestic scenes including a couple dancing, woman and child feeding chickens, three scenes of musicians and a woman with sheep. Roller-printed in peach, three pinks, red, three purples...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292949

Accession Number: 2001.281.1146

Wallpaper

Partial roll of floral wallpaper. Floral pattern of pink and yellow roses and foliage and three hanging vines of roses and cherries. Narrow band with geometric pattern above the flowers. Pattern printed along end-of roll only without repeat. Rest of roll is unprinted, white ground. Block-printe...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 292950

Accession Number: 2001.281.1147

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused sample of reproduction wallpaper in the "Dresden Ribbon" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has a floral stripe pattern with small floral sprays arranged evenly over paper and vertical stripes imitating grosgrain ribbon. Roller-printed in yellows, greens, and black on a tan backgroun...

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292970

Accession Number: 2001.281.860

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Enoch Frye" pattern by Katzenbach & Warren. Paper has an all-over stylized Neo-classical pattern of scrolls, medallions and rosettes. Roller-printed in cream on a dark green ground. Paper is based on an American block-printed wallpaper dating from 1790-...

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292971

Accession Number: 2001.281.861

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "General Thayer" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has a simple repeating pattern of small circular flowers and squares. Roller-printed in dark red and cream on a mottled red ground. Wallpaper is a reproduction of an American block-printed pape...

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292975

Accession Number: 2001.281.862

Reproduction Wallpaper

Three unused partial rolls of reproduction wallpaper in the "Governor Badger" pattern. Wallpaper has a Neo-classical medallion pattern featuring foliate, flower and star elements. All three rolls are roller-printed in gold and brown on a beige ground. Pattern is based on a fragment from the Governo...

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292983

Accession Number: 2001.281.863A-C

Reproduction Wallpapr

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Interlacing Circles" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has large-scale pattern of medallions formed by interlacing circles. Within the center of each circle is a stylized flower. Roller-printed in two greens and two blue-grays on a beige groun...

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292991

Accession Number: 2001.281.864

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Rose and Lace" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has a large-scale repeating grid formed by four elongated ovals arranged around a circle with a star motif. Each section of the grid contains a rosette. Roller-printed in pink, brown, and two gr...

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292996

Accession Number: 2001.281.865

Reproduction Wallpaper

Four partial rolls of reproduction wallpaper in the "Snuff Box" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has all-over diaper pattern of very simplified small floral rosettes. Roller-printed. Four colorways are present: 2001.281.866.1 -- Pink on a light pink ground (282 KW 504); 2001.281.866.2 -- ...

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293012

Accession Number: 2001.281.866.1-.4

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Tapestry Floral" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has an all-over design of stylized flowers and foliage in imitation of a tapestry or other textile. Roller-printed in brown and yellow on a gold ground. Pattern is based on a wallpaper found i...

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293048

Accession Number: 2001.281.867

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Wheat Damask" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has a large-scale pattern of rosettes topped with rococo scrolling foliage and stylized wheat motifs in the style of a damask textile. Roller-printed to resemble an 18th-century stencil in gold a...

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293051

Accession Number: 2001.281.868

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper in the "Concorde" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Pattern has a large-scale pattern depicting famous Parisian landmarks with interspersed shrubs. Roller-printed in two greens, blue, cream, red and brown on a taupe ground. Pattern is based on early 19th century French pap...

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293053

Accession Number: 2001.281.869

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Parker Hill" pattern which was produced by both Katzenbach and Warren and Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. Wallpaper has large-scale pattern of highly stylized sprays of flowers and foliage. Roller-printed in two blues, yellow, two purples, and gray-green ...

Date: 1959-1980

Maker: Possibly Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer) Possibly Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293055

Accession Number: 2001.281.870

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Book End Paper" pattern (#152948) by Waterhouse Wallhangings. Wallpaper has an all-over pattern of diamonds enclosing small geometric forms. Diamonds are formed by a series of graduated lines which are intersected by stylized arrows. Roller-printed in c...

Date: 1970-1980

Maker: Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293056

Accession Number: 2001.281.871

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