Historic New England

Technical Drawing

Partial scroll; leaf; shamrock; pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264634

Accession Number: 2002.32.83

Technical Drawing

Abstract floral with berries; three connecting half-circle marks at top.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264635

Accession Number: 2002.32.84

Technical Drawing

Leaf; shamrock border design.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264636

Accession Number: 2002.32.85

Technical Drawing

Leaf scroll border design.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264638

Accession Number: 2002.32.86

Technical Drawing

"Y" with four sprigs of leaves and one flower; drawn in ink.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264639

Accession Number: 2002.32.87

Technical Drawing

Single flower and leaf border design; same design on reverse.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264640

Accession Number: 2002.32.88

Technical Drawing

Scroll work border design in pencil and ink.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), graphite (mineral), ink

GUSN: 264641

Accession Number: 2002.32.89

Umbrella

Bamboo, paper, and black lacquer umbrella, Japanese. Green plastic top piece; red, black, yellow body; bamboo handle.

Date: 1937-1983

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), bamboo (material), plastic (organic material), lacquer (coating)

GUSN: 264655

Accession Number: 1984.1249

No Title

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 264664

Accession Number: 2002.32.90

Technical Drawing

Scroll sork design in pencil; sketches on reverse.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), graphite (mineral)

GUSN: 264665

Accession Number: 2002.32.91

Technical Drawing

Scroll work; leaves; one floral.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264666

Accession Number: 2002.32.92

Technical Drawing

Floral in center surrounded by leaves; border pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264667

Accession Number: 2002.32.93

Technical Drawing

Shamrock with leaves; pencil sketch on back.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), graphite (mineral)

GUSN: 264668

Accession Number: 2002.32.94

Technical Drawing

Partially sketched abstract pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264669

Accession Number: 2002.32.95

Technical Drawing

Three flowers with leaves.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264670

Accession Number: 2002.32.96

Technical Drawing

Partial pencil and ink drawing of flower and leaves; front and back sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), graphite (mineral), ink

GUSN: 264671

Accession Number: 2002.32.97

Technical Drawing

Floral, leaf, berry; collar-shaped pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264672

Accession Number: 2002.32.98

Technical Drawing

Small flowers; circles; collar-shaped pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264673

Accession Number: 2002.32.99

Technical Drawing

One large leaf scroll; front and back.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264677

Accession Number: 2002.32.100

Technical Drawing

Shamrock with leaf border pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264678

Accession Number: 2002.32.101

Technical Drawing

Unfinished floral design.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264679

Accession Number: 2002.32.102

Technical Drawing

Leaves with abstracted flower in center.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264680

Accession Number: 2002.32.103

Technical Drawing

Abstracted floral; border pattern; front and back; goes with 2002.32.103.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264681

Accession Number: 2002.32.104

Technical Drawing

Floral. leaf, berry; collar-shaped pattern

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264682

Accession Number: 2002.32.105

Technical Drawing

Scroll; collar-shaped pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264683

Accession Number: 2002.32.106

Technical Drawing

Small flowers and leaves border pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 264684

Accession Number: 2002.32.107

Grain painted wooden trunk with hinged and locking lid. Box is made with dovetail joints. The exterior is grain painted in dark red and black. There are handles on both ends with heart-shaped plates and a square lock plate on the front. The upper latch of the lock has become detached and is store...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), metal, block printing (relief printing process), laid paper

GUSN: 287859

Accession Number: 2001.281.235.2

Brooch

Fishing rod and creel brooch. Rod balanced atop basket with fishtail sticking out of the top. Small chain connects the tip of the rod to the bottom of the basket.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Beaucraft, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: sterling silver

GUSN: 287860

Accession Number: 2013.111.1

Brooch

Small submarine pin. Sleek submarine with rounded nose and small propeller. The Kinney Company.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 287861

Accession Number: 2013.111.2

Brooch

Submarine pin. Submarine has a squared off blunted nose. Row of portholes along top edge. Conning tower marked "GD". No visible makers mark.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 287862

Accession Number: 2013.111.3

Wallpaper covered trunk

Wallpaper-covered trunk with curved, hinged and locking lid. Trunk exterior is trimmed with leather strapping and tacks. It has a metal lock plate and side handles. The paper covering the trunk is printed with a pattern of repeating floral bouquets joined by festoons of ribbons and beads. The pape...

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: laid paper, wood (plant material), metal, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 287864

Accession Number: 2001.281.555.1

Portrait of Allen Penfield Harwood (1818-1893)

Half-length portrait of Allen Penfield Harwood. The young man has dark hair and blue-gray eyes. He is seated and wearing a white shirt with a black coat, waistcoat, and neck cloth. He has a small gold brooch with a portrait of an unknown man pinned to the center of his shirt. Oil on panel. Not frame...

Date: 1836

Maker: Powers, Asahel L. (American painter, 1813-1843) (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint), panels (wood)

GUSN: 287865

Accession Number: 2013.113.1

Portrait of Elizabeth Harwood (1814-1882)

Half-length portrait of Elizabeth Harwood. The woman has dark hair and dark eyes. She is seated and is wearing a black dress with a black lace belt and white lace chemisette. She has a small gold brooch pinned at her neck. Oil paint on mattress ticking. Not framed.

Date: 1836

Maker: Powers, Asahel L. (American painter, 1813-1843) (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint), ticking

GUSN: 287866

Accession Number: 2013.113.2

Tracing of a Wallpaper Pattern

Pencil tracing on tracing paper of Neoclassical wallpaper pattern. The traced wallpaper covers an old trunk from the Woodward House, Waban, Massachusetts (see trunk 2001.281.555.1). The tracing itself was found inside the trunk. The wallpaper pattern is of repeating floral bouquets joined by festoo...

Date: 1940-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: tracing paper

GUSN: 287877

Accession Number: 2001.281.555.2

Center Table

Center table with octagonal top and carved pedestal base. Base decorated with interlocking chain, scroll, and floral medallion patterns. Four flat rectangular feet.

Date: 1919

Maker: Bacon, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1856-1940 (Maker)

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 287884

Accession Number: 2013.119.1

Bracelet

Bracelet made of blue and clear glass stones set in cast white metal plated in rhodium. Marked

Date: 1937-1942

Maker: Trifari, Krussman, and Fishel, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: glass (material), plating (metal coating), metal

GUSN: 287965

Accession Number: 2013.139.1

Wallpapered Boards

Five wallpapered boards. Wallpaper patterned with alternating medallions with solid and latticework backgrounds. Each medallion frames a flower. Printed in white, pinks, and greens on a blue ground. Removed from a circa 1744 Georgian home in Marblehead, MA.

Date: ca. 1740

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 287967

Accession Number: 2013.140.1

Hooked rug in frame

Hooked rug and working frame. Rug has pattern printed on base fabric with partially completed hooking of multicolored morning glories, peonies, and lilies. The rug background is unfinished. Rug is stretched and affixed to frame with cotton ties and t-shaped straight pins.

Date: 1960-2012

Maker: Roaf, Luceille Moore, 1932-2014 (Maker)

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile), pine (wood)

GUSN: 287968

Accession Number: 2013.141.1

Wallpaper

Fragment of Gothic Revival wallpaper from Laconia, New Hampshire. Repeating image of a gazebo or tower among foliage. Roller-printed in blue, brown, and white on an off-white ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287974

Accession Number: 2001.281.556

Wallpaper

Medallion and vine stripe wallpaper from Nashua, New Hampshire. Block-printed in blue on pale pink ground. Wove paper, partial sheets.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 287975

Accession Number: 2001.281.557

Wallpaper

Fragment of scenic figured wallpaper from Naushua, New Hampshire. Repeating pastoral scene of farm animals and peasants. A boy in blue jacket, cow, goat, and sheep are central figures. Structures in background. Scene framed by foliage. Roller-printed in grays, greens, browns, blues, salmon, yellow, ...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287976

Accession Number: 2001.281.558

Wallpaper

Three unused fragments of floral stripe wallpaper from New Boston, Massachusetts. Pattern of gray stripes on polished white ground. Primary stripe is printed with sprigs of grasses and blue and violet flowers. Roller-printed in gray, two greens, two blues, ochre, brown, and two violets on a polish...

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288245

Accession Number: 2001.281.559A-C

Wallpaper

Fragment of stylized scroll and flower wallpaper from New Boston, Massachusetts. Stylized scrolling stems sprout clover leaves and flowers with orange centers. Roller-printed in black, orange, two tans and metallic gold on gray ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 288248

Accession Number: 2001.281.560

Wallpaper

Two fragments of striped wallpaper from Newfields, New Hampshire. Pattern imitates a striped textile. Multi-color chevron stripes alternate with stripes with highly stylized floral figures and panels similar to Persian patterns. Roller-printed in light blue, red, yellow, light green and tan on nav...

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 288251

Accession Number: 2001.281.561AB

Wallpaper

Fragment of unused wallpaper printed with haying scene from New Hampton, New Hampshire. Pastoral landscape scene depicting men and a woman haying and filling a horse-drawn wagon. There is a house in the background. Roller-printed in two blues, gray, white, black, two greens, two reds, ochre, pale ...

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288255

Accession Number: 2001.281.562

Wallpaper

Striped wallpaper fragment from Orford, New Hampshire. Foliate sprigs and snowflake-like medallions alternate on strapwork stripes. Roller-printed in maroon, green, and gray on light gray or white polished ground.

Date: 1855-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288256

Accession Number: 2001.281.563

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Pattern imitating marble blocks separated by a leaf and berry vine border. Block-printed in red and green on ungrounded paper. Paper may be handmade. A strip of cotton fabric affixed between two layers of the wallpaper, presumably to smooth the a...

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288257

Accession Number: 2001.281.564

Wallpaper with attached border

One long wallpaper fragment, now in two parts, of a floral vine and stripe pattern from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The paper is block-printed in black, green and pink on white ground. Laid paper, partial sheets. Fragment (A) retains a deteriorated fragment of the paper's floral border block-printed...

Date: 1795-1810

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288258

Accession Number: 2001.281.565.1AB

Drawing of a wallpaper pattern

Drawing of Fforal vine and stripe wallpaper pattern (see 2001.281.565.1ab). Wallpaper pattern is reproduced using pencil and colored with green, black and pink felt tip markers on a sheet of plain paper.

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288260

Accession Number: 2001.281.565.2

Wallpaper border

Fragment of wallpaper border with landscape scene from Wilmont Flat, New Hampshire. Wide border is printed with the repeating image of Mount Vernon in a pastoral landscape. Roller-printed in white, ochre, two browns, four greens, black and two grays on pink ground.

Date: 1865-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288261

Accession Number: 2001.281.566.1

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