Historic New England

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Birthday card to Walter Gropius from Herbert Bayer; depicts hazy red background with finger print and clouds, boy in lederhosen costume with a staff at right bottom corner.

Date: 1943

Maker: Bayer, Herbert, 1900-1985 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 248426

Accession Number: 1984.58.13

Clipping from magazine or other publication affixed to a pink card. Clipping includes a photograph depicting a man demonstrating how an object may be suspended in a jet of air without any other support; handwritten inscription in red ink beneath photograph.

Date: 1943

Maker: Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, d. 1945 (Artist)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248430

Accession Number: 1984.58.15

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Birthday card to Walter Gropius: Berlin work picture matted in a blue paper greeting card. Image depicts a blue bird in a tree with a mountain behind, blue sky with a flying bird, and other trees and flowers. Colors include blue, green, tan, and red, with a dark green and pink border. A small piece ...

Date: 1943

Maker: Storrow, Helen Osborne, 1864-1944 (Artist)

Material: Berlin woolwork, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248432

Accession Number: 1984.58.16

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Greeting card depicts man sitting in a chair with his head in his hands with a bubble above his head with a photograph of a woman; sepia and black and white photographs arranged in a collage.

Date: 1943

Maker: Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981 (Artist)

Material: photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248433

Accession Number: 1984.58.29

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage on pink backgroud; black and white photograph depicts Ise Gropius; photograph surrounded by three small feathers and a small card with her initial "I" in calligraphy.

Date: 1943

Maker: Gropius, Ise (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), feather (material), photographic paper

GUSN: 248434

Accession Number: 1984.58.31

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photograph affixed to a blue card with red corners. Photographic depicts a man in a sergeant's uniform with an inscription above his head in the top right corner.

Date: 1943

Maker: Feininger, T. Lux, 1910-2011 (Photographer)

Material: black-and-white photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248435

Accession Number: 1984.58.36

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photographic portrait depicting the head and shoulders of a man (Josef Albers) in a suit and tie. A small piece of paper with the inscription Albers in black ink is affixed to the photograph below Albers's face; second inscription in white ink in bottom left corner of photograph.

Date: 1943

Maker: Albers, Josef, 1888-1976 (Artist)

Material: black-and-white photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248436

Accession Number: 1984.58.40

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black and white photograph depicts woman (Anni Albers) seated surrounded by many large spools of thread.

Date: 1943

Maker: Albers, Anni (Artist)

Material: black-and-white photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248437

Accession Number: 1984.58.41

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Wood block print depicting buildings; pasted to black and white dotted card; print signed and dated.

Date: 1943

Maker: Feininger, Lyonel Charles, 1871-1956 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, pencils (drawing and writing equipment)

GUSN: 248438

Accession Number: 1984.58.48

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Card depicts handprint on a background with German inscription, black handprint on blue, red and yellow background; protractor in front.

Date: 1943

Maker: Schawinsky, Xanti (American painter, photographer, and illustrator, 1940-1979) (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, paint (coating), protractors

GUSN: 248439

Accession Number: 1984.58.49

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photograph depicts a group of young men and women with an inscription.

Date: 1943

Maker: Feininger, Andreas Bernhard Lyonel, 1906-1999 (Artist)

Material: photographs

GUSN: 248440

Accession Number: 1984.58.50

Table Mat

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248445

Accession Number: 1969.2566

Pewter Chamberstick

Pewter chamberstick with laterally positioned injectors; saucer-like bobecheon ringed cylindrical shaft with injector and bulbous base on deep circular drip pan with fingerhold ring and disc-shaped rest.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin alloy

GUSN: 248451

Accession Number: 1991.1318.1

Chintz Window Curtain

One pair from a set of three pairs with matching slipcovers and dressing table flounce; glazed chintz; block print; blue stripe with central floral vine.

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz

GUSN: 248526

Accession Number: 1969.3463.3AB

Chintz Window Curtain

One pair from a set of three pairs with matching slipcovers and dressing table flounce; glazed chintz; block print; blue stripe with central floral vine.

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz

GUSN: 248528

Accession Number: 1969.3463.4AB

Chintz Window Curtain

One pair from a set of three pairs with matching slipcovers and dressing table flounce; glazed chintz; block print; blue stripe with central floral vine.

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz

GUSN: 248529

Accession Number: 1969.3463.5AB

Chintz Window Curtains

One pair from a set of three pairs with matching slipcovers and dressing table flounce; glazed chintz; block print; blue stripe with central floral vine.

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz

GUSN: 248530

Accession Number: 1969.3463.6AB

Textile Fragment

Textile fragment from fabric used to make set of three pairs of curtains with matching slipcovers and dressing table flounce; glazed chintz; block print; blue stripe with central floral vine.

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz, printed textile materials

GUSN: 248532

Accession Number: 1969.3463.12