Historic New England

Bandbox

Oval, wooden bandbox (A) with lid (B) covered in floral and foliate paper. Pink and white flowers with green leaves. Printed in red, pink, white and two greens on a blue ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178253

Accession Number: 1946.123AB

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Vertical stripes with vertical repeat of stylized floral elements. Background of faint narrow stripes. Printed in red, green, pink, black and brown on a peach ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178254

Accession Number: 1967.118

Wallpaper

Large-scale birds and foliage and vines printed in blue. Paper has tan, irregular, horizontal striations to suggest grass cloth or woodgrain.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178255

Accession Number: 1969.458A-D

Unused sample. Four spandrels form circular panels of fresco paper or ceiling paper. Corner sprays connected to berried vines with grisaille beaded moulding. Printed in two purples, lavender, red, rose, two pinks, three greens, tan, white and two greys on polished white ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178256

Accession Number: 1971.191

Wallpaper

Fragment. Rainbow paper. Pinecone element sprouting scrolled plumes or foliate forms. Printed in blended red and blue on white ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178257

Accession Number: 1971.196

Wallpaper

Fragments. Framed scene of church by the water, bridge. The geometric frame is juxtaposed with surrounding floral elements. Three greys, black, light green and white on a light grey ground. Straight match?

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178258

Accession Number: 1971.198

Wallpaper

Fragment. Circular gilt ornament with beaded frame and decorated with foliate scrolls, bellflower festoon and fleur-de-lis. Printed on a field of grey dashes on a light grey ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178259

Accession Number: 1971.206

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of a vine of leaves and berries, probably a grape vine. Embossed and gilt. Gold on a grey ground. There is a small piece of crimson flocking (probably another layer).

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178260

Accession Number: 1971.58

Wallpaper

Fragment. Allover grid of blue flowers with buds on tan stems. Ground field comprised of grey, narrow, horizontal pinstripes on beige polished ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178261

Accession Number: 1973.109

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Repeating compartments or octagons of stylized flowers and framed by delicate scrolls and interlaced lines. Printed in red, black, pale yellow on unground paper.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178262

Accession Number: 1976.135

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Continuous band of blue roses and white blossoms entwined with a vine against a blue field with undulating edges and flanked by brown stripes. Straight match.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178263

Accession Number: 1976.136

Wallpaper

Three unused partial rolls and half-width sample. Floral stripe pattern composed of alternating stripes of flowers with ribbon-like motif gathered with flowers and inset with two birds on branches. Prints in red, pink, two greens, beige, brown on cream ground. "A" is end of roll. Drop repeat.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178264

Accession Number: 1978.213A-D

Wallpaper

Fragment. Floral with vertical stripe. Wide stripe with flowers is edged by zig-zags of pin dots, narrow stripe has a columnn of horizontal dashes. Yellow, gold, green, white on a white ground.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178265

Accession Number: 1980.204

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of allover quatrefoils, formed by C-scrolls, with diamond centers. Printed in blue, white and brown on unground paper.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178266

Accession Number: 1980.210

Wallpaper

Fragments. Tile design of alternating squares with stylized foliate forms and geometric patterns and rosettes at the intersections. Printed in ivory, pink, green, rose and liquid mica on pink paper.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178267

Accession Number: 1980.213

Wallpaper

Fragment. Allover, small-scale floral sprays in light grey and metallic gold (discolored) on a dark grey ground.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178268

Accession Number: 1980.247

Bandbox

Bandbox (A) with lid (B). Repeating abstract pineapple or pinecone motifs. Printed in yellow and red on a blue ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178269

Accession Number: 1980.90AB

Bandbox

Oval, wooden bandbox without lid. Covered in paper with an Ahslar pattern. Rectangles are formed by scrolling foliage. In each block is stylized foliage with a pinecone motif. Printed in green, black and grey on a white ground.

Date: 1830-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178270

Accession Number: 1980.91

Bandbox

Large, oval, pasteboard bandbox with attached hat stand. Paper pattern is of a bird on a swinging vine with dots, bouquets and floral swags. Printed in green, pink, white on a blue ground.

Date: 1820-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178271

Accession Number: 1980.99AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment of flocked and gilded border. Pattern consists of fig leaves and figs wrapping around fluted column, edged with small C-scrolls on top and dots on bottom. Printed in gold with green flocking on blueish-green ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178272

Accession Number: 1985.22

Wallpaper

Cut sample of a diapered patterned wallpaper. Diamond shape motif alternates with stylized flower. Printed in white, green and red on blue-green ungrounded paper. Printing is off register. Straight repeat.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178273

Accession Number: 1985.23

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Cut border. Small repeating roses printed in two pinks, yellow, grey and white with green and varninsh green leaves. Printed on mauve ground.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178274

Accession Number: 1985.28

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Ashlar or Masonry patterned paper. Repeating rectangular cartouches with C-scrolls and wavy lines, imitating marble, on a speckled ground. Printed in two blues, white, red and mica on a light blue ground.

Date: 1910-1915

Maker: Alfred Peats Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178275

Accession Number: 1996.29

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Large, gilt, Neo-Grec elements composed of roses in a rose supported by a cylix, framed by arabesques draped with rose garlands and separtated by smaller gilt rose and urn motifs. Printed against a field of imitation silk moire printed in grisaille.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178276

Accession Number: 2000.124

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Four vertical rows of white dots printed on light blue ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178378

Accession Number: 2000.604

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Alternating rose sprigs with buds in three purples and two greens on white ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178379

Accession Number: 2000.605AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover gilt flowers and ferns printed on a gray ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178380

Accession Number: 2000.606

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. White Renaissance revival cartouche framing a floral bouquet printed in tan and brown and ornamented by a flowering vine in brown and taupe on a gray ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178381

Accession Number: 2000.607

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Renaissance revival strapwork in gray ornamented with pink and red roses and bachelor buttons in brown and blue.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178382

Accession Number: 2000.613

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Renaissance revival strapwork in gray ornamented with bleeding nearts and pinks flowers with trailing tendrils on a white polished ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178383

Accession Number: 2000.614AB

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Interlace ornament in green and maroon beside a row of dog teeth and beads and lozenges in red and white. Printed on a field of maroon pin-dots and a gray ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178384

Accession Number: 2000.617

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Open lattice design formed by white pin-stripes enclosing red and green rootlets on unground brown paper.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178385

Accession Number: 2000.620

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Raised coffer design printed in tan, brown and beige enclosing white patera on a gray field.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178386

Accession Number: 2000.623

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Grisaille ashlar blocks or coffers with egg and dart and bead and reel edges alternating with a panel of a continuous stylized berried vine.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178387

Accession Number: 2000.624

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern of highly stylized gray provencals framing green arabesques ornamented with black diaper pattern. Printed on gray ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178388

Accession Number: 2000.626

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. White renaissance revival strapwork ornamented with red roses on a white striated field on unground paper.

Date: 1845-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178389

Accession Number: 2000.630

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Repeating tri-lobed foliate forms printed in two greens above a row of yellow, tan and brown molding. Printed on brown ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178390

Accession Number: 2000.632

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Large sunflower surrounded by scrolling foliage. Printed in brown, tan, maroon, red and yellow on a metallic gold basket weave embossed ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178391

Accession Number: 2000.633

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Geometric tapestry pattern in orange, blue and brown surrounded by a narrow brown stripe with orange sprigs. Printed on unground paper.

Date: 1865-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178392

Accession Number: 2000.636A-C

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Cut border. Continuous band of stylized roses and daisies and small blue five-petaled flowers. Bordered above and below by geometric elements. Printed on maroon ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178393

Accession Number: 2000.638

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Narrow strip of drapery design. Lavender and white "lace" and two green pleats or folds printed on yellow ground.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178394

Accession Number: 2000.640

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Serpentine floral vine in red and gray with delicate floral tendrils in yellow and black printed on a vermillion ground.

Date: 1870-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178395

Accession Number: 2000.641

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pastoral landscape of sheep and flowering tree boughs. Printed in black, blue and white on pink ground.

Date: 1760-1780

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178396

Accession Number: 2000.642

Wallpaper

Fragment. Possibly Renaissance revival floral strapwork. Sample too small to decipher design. Printed in green, maroon and white on gray ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178397

Accession Number: 2000.643

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Black and green brattishing on olive flock printed above egg and dart moulding printed in rust, tan and metallic gold on ochre ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178398

Accession Number: 2000.644

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Cut section of printed white eyelet design on blue ground.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178399

Accession Number: 2000.646

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Blue and white sprigs pn a field of blue and white dashes. On gray paper.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178400

Accession Number: 2000.647

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Stripe. Grisaille interlace with dotted decoration alternating with band of organic abstract shapes in white connected by gray dots. Printed on gray ground.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178401

Accession Number: 2000.650

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Grape vine in brown, tan and beige with clusters of grapes in red, orange, yellow, purple and white on a black field.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178402

Accession Number: 2000.651

Wallpaper

Two fragments of floral stripe wallpaper. Poppies (?) and bluebells (?) form stripe alternating with solid green stripe with moire. Printed in red, blues, two greens, yellow, brown on light green ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178403

Accession Number: 2000.671

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