Historic New England

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Tile pattern composed of plain squares alternating with squares framing fleur-de-lis. Printed in two blues, yellow, green and liquid mica on a field which imitates crazed glaze.

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178280

Accession Number: 2000.131

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Floral vines, flowers and leaves separated by geometric paterns and forms within asymmetrical frames. Printed in metallic gold, black, red and pale yellow.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178281

Accession Number: 2000.132

Rolled pieces of borders. Flower encircled by scrolling leaves and printed below row of bead and scalloped imitation moulding. Printed in brown, mauve, salmon, blue, peach, light olive and metallic gold on a field of red flock.

Date: 1880-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178282

Accession Number: 2000.134

Wallpaper

Partial roll. View of forest printed in three blues, mauve, lavender, tan and grey. Overprinted with blue and grey dashed lines to create the appearance of tapestry.

Date: 1915-1930

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178283

Accession Number: 2000.136

Wallpaper

End of roll. Remainder of uncut borders. Entwined foliate scrolls with flower terminals bordered above and below by horizontal dotted stripe. Printed in metallic gold an black.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178284

Accession Number: 2000.138

Wallpaper Border

Three pieces of cut wallpaper borders. Blue satin ribbon entwined with string of grisaille beads. Printed in five blues, four greys and white on a light grey ground.

Date: 1875-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178285

Accession Number: 2000.141A-C

Wallpaper

Partial roll of cut border. Medallion with leaves radiating from a quatrefoil center alternating with a bifurcated and beaded, scrolling leaf motif. Printed above a row of flowers and losenges. Printed in two greens and silver liquid mica.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178286

Accession Number: 2000.142

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Landscape figure paper. Pattern consists of two alternating, vertical stripes of a ship and a diamond or circular medallion inset with trophy motif. Diapered dot background. Prints in two greys, white on taupe ground.

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178287

Accession Number: 2000.1425

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Landscape figure paper. Vignette of mill alternates with vignette of ship, separated by a vignette of bunch of fruit (pears, grapes, apricots). Prints in two reds, white, green on grey ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178288

Accession Number: 2000.1439

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Rolled strip of plain green canvas. Probably a remnant of a roller shade.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178289

Accession Number: 2000.144

Wallpaper

Rolled sample. Dense grid of repeating, Persian-like, stylized flowers. Printed in two shades of olive green, maroon and metallic gold.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178290

Accession Number: 2000.146

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Allover design of pink and blue flowers with grey leaves outlined in black, dashed lines. Printed against a field of white and dark grey mottling. Straight match.

Date: 1920-1935

Maker: Niagra Wall Paper Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178291

Accession Number: 2000.147

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Repeating grid of foliated medallions draped with beaded swags and printed against a field of stripes. Printed in two greens, olive green, maroon, beige, ivory, brown and liquid mica. Straight match.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178292

Accession Number: 2000.154

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment. Allover design of entwined, floral vine in white with repeating clusters of berries printed in red and blue. Printed on green paper. Straight match.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178293

Accession Number: 2000.155

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Allover diaper pattern in white, formed by pentagons framing metallic gold stars.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: Carey Brothers (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178294

Accession Number: 2000.159

Wallpaper

Partial roll - cut in half. Yellow, orange and ivory floral sprigs framed by floral medallions in black composed of flowers and morning glories.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178295

Accession Number: 2000.161

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Floral bouquet draped with garlands and printed below a trophy of a torch and arrows tied with ribbon. Printed in green and outlined in metalic gold.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178296

Accession Number: 2000.1624

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Stripes composed of dark grey dashes and entwined with a floral vine with pink blossoms and berries. Printed in grey, tan, green, two pinks and black. Straight match.

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178297

Accession Number: 2000.1625

Wallpaper

Cut sample, rolled. Trellis composed of Greek key meander entwined with a floral vine with magenta blossoms against a field of metallic gold circles. Printed in two shades of olive green, magenta, metallic gold and black.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178298

Accession Number: 2000.1626

Wallpaper

Partial wallpaper roll. Rows of delicate, white scrolled vines with grey and white leaves. Straight match.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178299

Accession Number: 2000.1627

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Foliated, diapered scrolls ornamented with roses and rosebuds. Printed in pink, brown, tan, two greens and metallic green, silver and gold.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178300

Accession Number: 2000.1629

Wallpaper

Rolled sample. Trailing vine composed of overlapping bellflowers or husks sprouting stylized Baroque flowers. Printed in yellow in imitation of damask. Straight match.

Date: 1885-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178301

Accession Number: 2000.1630

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Heavily embossed paper in imitation of jute or burlap painted red and then gilded.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178302

Accession Number: 2000.163

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Grid composed of stylized Art Nouveau lily motifs. Printed in pink, olive and blue on a field of tan, horizontal, dashed lines.

Date: 1895-1905

Maker: Gilbert W.P. Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178303

Accession Number: 2000.1635

Wallpaper

Partial roll of plain, black paper.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178304

Accession Number: 2000.1636

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Allover design of ferns and grasses. Printed in two light greens, white and metallic gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178305

Accession Number: 2000.1638

Wallpaper

Partial roll of scenery figure paper. Repeating vignettes of a mounted figure feeding his horses before a well, a group of men hunting water fowl, and a woman standing in water speaking to a man on horseback. Printed in two greens, yellow, orange, blue, white, grey and maroon.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178306

Accession Number: 2000.1639

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Allover pattern of repeating clusters of pink and blue blossoms framed by blue leaves. Overprinted with black, undulating lines on a liquid mica gold field. Straight match.

Date: 1925-1935

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178307

Accession Number: 2000.1640

Wallpaper

Cut sample, rolled. Large-scale, Baroque, stylized flower framed by scrolling foliage. Printed in yellow, ochre and metallic gold. Drop match.

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178308

Accession Number: 2000.1641

Wallpaper

Cut sample. Diapered and foliated cartouche draped with beaded swags connected to strapwork stripe. Printed in red and orange. Straight match.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178309

Accession Number: 2000.1644

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Repeating vignettes of English sports; golf, tennis, riding, racing, rugby, cricket and racing. Printed in blue, yellow, orange, brown.

Date: 1895-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178310

Accession Number: 2000.1647

Wallpaper

Partial roll of uncut borders. Repeating stylized flower blossoms in red, blues and brown, framed by C-scrolls and bordered above and below by repeating floral sprigs. Printed against a metallic gold field.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178311

Accession Number: 2000.169

School Book Cover

Diaper pattern with floral medallion in the center of each losenge and separated by small diamonds. Printed in blue, red and white on an ungrounded paper.

Date: 1850-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178312

Accession Number: 2000.2216

Wallpapered Book Cover

School book covered with a wallpaper patterned with horizontal stripes. Wide stripes have ovals surrounded by diagonal pinstripes. Printed in black, green and white on a blue ground. This could be a stripe pattern, but more probably a sheet of uncut borders.

Date: 1795-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178313

Accession Number: 2000.2218

Wallpaper

Rolled sample. Allover pattern of densely arranged, small-scale, grey leaves.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178314

Accession Number: 2000.228

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral border. Pattern consists of three rows of roses, in various sizes and groupings, alternating with architectural-type motifs, on a background with a gros-grain ribbon effect. Prints in two pinks, two greens, blue, brown, white on light pink ground.

Date: 1902-1923

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178315

Accession Number: 2000.266

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Floral pattern with broad stripes. Printed in white, two greys, two blues, olive, gold, red, two pinks and yellow on a silver/grey and silver/blue ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178316

Accession Number: 2000.2231

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Quatrefoil, egg and dart design. Printed in orange, brown on beige ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178317

Accession Number: 2000.268

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large-scale grisaille roses, lilies, and poppies entwined with foliated scrolls. Printed in three grays and white on a pale pink ground.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178318

Accession Number: 2000.274

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Striped design of notched "pipes" with repeating floral and twig motif. Printed in green and red on a white ground. Drop match.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178319

Accession Number: 2000.277

Wallpaper

Fragment. Repeating sprays of roses whose stems are tied with a berried vine. Overprinted with a fine screen. Printed in pale yellow and light green on a green ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: O D Case's Sons (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178320

Accession Number: 2000.279A-D

Wallpaper

Fragments (9 pieces). Renaissance Revival stripe. Cartouches framing flowers and allover diaper pattern. Printed blue and brown on unground paper.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178321

Accession Number: 2000.280A-I

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Striped pattern. Printed in yellow on an ochre ground with liquid mica.

Date: 1900-1915

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178322

Accession Number: 2000.281A-D

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Anglo-Japanese style. Dense, overlapping foliage with flowers. Stylized flowers. Geometric framework of circles, triangles and squares. Printed in two greens, gold, black, silver-grey and magenta on a light olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178323

Accession Number: 2000.282