Historic New England

Wallpaper

Cut fragment of striped wallpaper. Consists of alternating green and white stripes with stylized leaf motifs printed in grey and dark green.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283652

Accession Number: 1911.112

Fragment of unused wallpaper from a house on Wellington Street in South Boston, Massachusetts. Pebble embossed paper with geometric pattern of overlapping or stacked diamonds. Each diamond has a greek key-like element framing a stylized sprig or trefoil. Roller-printed in red, green, black, two b...

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 283653

Accession Number: 2001.281.301

Wallpaper

Four wallpaper fragments from a house on Wellington Street in South Boston, Massachusetts. Art Nouveau style wallpaper with large-scale, stylized floral pattern. Roller-printed in red, green and black on a bronze ground. Paper is embossed with a wood grain pattern and varnished after printing.

Date: 1900-1915

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 283654

Accession Number: 2001.281.302A-D

Children's Mug

Porcelain mug. Shaped base with spurred loop handle. Red transfer printed floral motifs on both sides, over painted with green, red, yellow, blue, and pink.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, transfer printing, hand-painted

GUSN: 283661

Accession Number: 1970.1310.123

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from a home on Wellington Street, South Boston, Massachusetts. Art Nouveau style wallpaper with large-scale stylized floral with scrolling foliage pattern. Embossed floral pattern on bronze ground. The pattern interior is further embossed with fine diagonal striations. The back...

Date: 1900-1915

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 283670

Accession Number: 2001.281.303

Wallpaper

Fragment of wallpaper from a home on Wellington Street, South Boston, Massachusetts. Art Nouveau style floral damask embossed on dark bronze ground. Flowers and stems form an ogee pattern. The pattern is embossed on a dark bronze ground. The pattern's embossed outline resembles stitching and its i...

Date: 1900-1915

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 283673

Accession Number: 2001.281.304

Scenic Wallpaper Display Sample

Five small-scale showroom samples of a scenic wallpaper. Paper depicts a view of "Beacon Hill" in Boston, Massachusetts by "HAN-TEC." Sample indicates the full scale scenic came in four sections, labeled A through D. Screened in green, blue, red, white, two browns and black with a background print...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings, screen prints

GUSN: 283677

Accession Number: 2001.281.305A-E

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment mounted on paperboard labeled "Crocker" from Brewster, Massachusetts. Floral Aesthetic style paper with foreground pattern of asymmetrical, densley arranged flowers and foliage roller-printed in greens, browns, red and orange. Background foliate pattern roller-printed in yellow ...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283678

Accession Number: 2001.281.306

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment mounted on paperboard labeled "Crocker" from Brewster, Massachusetts. Floral, Aesthetic style paper with asymmetrical pattern of sprays with turquiose and red flowers and olive palm fronds. Roller-printed in two shades of turquoise, red, dark maroon, fuchsia, yellow, and three s...

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association (1880-1887) (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283679

Accession Number: 2001.281.307

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment mounted on paperboard labeled "Crocker" from Brewster, Massachusetts. Aesthetic style paper with dense, asymmetrical floral pattern roller-printed in two yellows, red, dark maroon, black and dark olive on olive ground. Olive ground color is badly deteriorated and has largely di...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283681

Accession Number: 2001.281.308

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment mounted on paperboard labeled "Crocker" from Brewster, Massachusetts. Aesthetic style paper with dense, asymmetrical foliate pattern roller-printed in black, yellow, maroon and orange on olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283682

Accession Number: 2001.281.309

Wallpaper

Fragment of scenery figure wallpaper. Pattern consists of strapwork framing scenes of rural life alternating with vignetttes of tools of learning, such as books, globe and telescope. Printed in green, grey, and brown on white, ungrounded paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283684

Accession Number: 1911.79

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments from a mid-nineteenth century house, now demolished, in Brewster, Massachusetts. Aesthetic style wallpaper with large-scale floral pattern roller-printed in brown in the foreground and a second smaller-scale floral pattern roller-printed in green in the background. Foreground p...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283685

Accession Number: 2001.281.310A-E

Wallpaper

Fragment of scenery figure wallpaper. Pattern consists of strapwork framing scenes of rural life alternating with vignetttes of tools of learning, such as books, globe and telescope. Printed in green, grey, and brown on white, ungrounded paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283686

Accession Number: 1911.80

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment mounted on paperboard from Brewster, Massachusetts. Floral stripe pattern roller-printed in green, gray and dark red on white ground.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283687

Accession Number: 2001.281.311

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Brewster, Massachusetts. Pattern of repeating floral bouquets with trailing vines. This early American paper is roller-printed in green, red, pink and blue on an undetermined ground.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283688

Accession Number: 2001.281.312

Wallpaper

Fragment of Scenery figure wallpaper representing the Crimean War, specifically the Siege of Sebastopol (1854-1855), alternating with portrait medallions of Lord Raglan and Lord Palmerston. Printed in brown, grey, red-orange, blue, white and black on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1855-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283689

Accession Number: 1911.104

Wallpaper

Fragment of Scenery figure wallpaper representing the Crimean War, specifically the Siege of Sebastopol (1854-1855), alternating with portrait medallions of Lord Raglan and Lord Palmerston. Printed in brown, grey, red-orange, blue, white and black on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1855-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283690

Accession Number: 1911.105

Wallpaper

Fragment of wallpaper from Brookline, Massachusetts. Mock flocked, or paper imitating a flocked wallpaper, with floral damask pattern. Roller-printed in dark red and black on dark cinnamon ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283691

Accession Number: 2001.281.313

Wallpaper

Fragment of Gothic Revival stripe wallpaper. Pattern consists of stripes of Ionic columns alternating with Gothic cornice, scrolled leaves and quatrefoils over fluted columns. Printed in brown and white on a pale gray ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283692

Accession Number: 1911.76

Wallpaper

Fragment of Gothic Revival stripe wallpaper. Pattern consists of stripes of Ionic columns alternating with Gothic cornice, scrolled leaves and quatrefoils over fluted columns. Printed in brown and white on a pale gray ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283693

Accession Number: 1911.77

Wallpaper

Fragment of Gothic Revival stripe wallpaper. Pattern consists of stripes of Ionic columns alternating with Gothic cornice, scrolled leaves and quatrefoils over fluted columns. Printed in brown and white on a pale gray ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283694

Accession Number: 1911.148

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the General John Walker House in Burlington, Massachusetts. Floral striped wallpaper. Stripes of floral sprigs and leaves block-printed in green varnish, black and white alternate with narrower stripes of dots and dashes printed in white. Light blue ground. Wove paper in p...

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: (Manufacturer)

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

GUSN: 283695

Accession Number: 2001.281.314.1

Wallpaper

Three fragments of striped wallpaper from the General John Walker House, Burlington, Massachusetts. Sprig, cattail and ribbon stripes block-printed in black and white on blue ground. The wallpaper is printed on blue ingrain paper in partial sheets. Fragment [C] was used to make the reproduction wa...

Date: 1800-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: wove paper, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 283705

Accession Number: 2001.281.314.2A-C

Reproduction Wallpaper

Sample of reproduction wallpaper used in the study of the Blaine House, Augusta, Maine. Central stripe features eight-pointed star figures flanked by sold colored stripes, then wide stripes in the ground color with a centered stylized vine running down the center. Paper is embossed with a fine rib...

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 288392

Accession Number: 2001.281.587

Wine glass

One of a set of nine hand-blown stemmed glasses with conical bowls, conical folded feet, and glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1780-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288393

Accession Number: 1958.293.1

Wine glass

One of a set of nine hand-blown stemmed glasses with conical bowls, conical folded feet, and glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1780-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288394

Accession Number: 1958.293.2

Wine glass

One of a set of nine hand-blown stemmed glasses with conical bowls, conical folded feet, and glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1780-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288395

Accession Number: 1958.293.3

Wine glass

One of a set of nine hand-blown stemmed glasses with conical bowls, conical folded feet, and glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1780-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288396

Accession Number: 1958.293.4

Wine glass

One of a set of nine hand-blown stemmed glasses with conical bowls, conical folded feet, and glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1780-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288397

Accession Number: 1958.293.5

Wine glass

One of a set of nine hand-blown stemmed glasses with conical bowls, conical folded feet, and glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1780-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288398

Accession Number: 1958.293.6

Wine glass

One of a set of nine hand-blown stemmed glasses with conical bowls, conical folded feet, and glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1780-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288399

Accession Number: 1958.293.7

Wine glass

One of a set of nine hand-blown stemmed glasses with conical bowls, conical folded feet, and glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1780-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288400

Accession Number: 1958.293.8

Wine glass

One of a set of nine hand-blown stemmed glasses with conical bowls, conical folded feet, and glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1780-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288401

Accession Number: 1958.293.9

"Birds and Blossoms" Wallpaper

Four wallpaper panels removed from the first floor dining room of 77 Mount Vernon Street, Boston. "Birds and Blossoms" pattern designed by Charles Burchfield and printed by M.H. Birge.

Maker: Burchfield, Charles Ephraim (American painter, draftsman, and illustrator, 1893-1967) (Designer) M.H. Birge & Sons (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 288403

Accession Number: 1992.185A-D

Wine glass

One of a set of three hand blown stemmed glasses with incurved bucket bowls, singular annular knops on the stems, and conical folded feet. Glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1745-1770

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288476

Accession Number: 1958.292.1

Wine glass

One of a set of three hand blown stemmed glasses with incurved bucket bowls, singular annular knops on the stems, and conical folded feet. Glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1745-1770

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288478

Accession Number: 1958.292.2

Wine glass

One of a set of three hand blown stemmed glasses with incurved bucket bowls, singular annular knops on the stems, and conical folded feet. Glass-tip pontil scars.

Date: 1745-1770

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glass

GUSN: 288479

Accession Number: 1958.292.3

Side chair

One of a set of eight side chairs with pierced splats, carved serpentine crest rails carved with shells and volutes, cabriole legs with carved shells on knees, and claw-and-ball feet. Seats covered in brown velvet cloth patterned with diamonds.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), silk (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 288480

Accession Number: 1958.288.1

Side chair

One of a set of eight side chairs with pierced splats, carved serpentine crest rails carved with shells and volutes, cabriole legs with carved shells on knees, and claw-and-ball feet. Seats covered in brown velvet cloth patterned with diamonds.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), silk (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 288481

Accession Number: 1958.288.2

Side chair

One of a set of eight side chairs with pierced splats, carved serpentine crest rails carved with shells and volutes, cabriole legs with carved shells on knees, and claw-and-ball feet. Seats covered in brown velvet cloth patterned with diamonds.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), silk (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 288482

Accession Number: 1958.288.3

Side chair

One of a set of eight side chairs with pierced splats, carved serpentine crest rails carved with shells and volutes, cabriole legs with carved shells on knees, and claw-and-ball feet. Seats covered in brown velvet cloth patterned with diamonds.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), silk (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 288483

Accession Number: 1958.288.4

Side chair

One of a set of eight side chairs with pierced splats, carved serpentine crest rails carved with shells and volutes, cabriole legs with carved shells on knees, and claw-and-ball feet. Seats covered in brown velvet cloth patterned with diamonds.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), silk (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 288484

Accession Number: 1958.288.5

Side chair

One of a set of eight side chairs with pierced splats, carved serpentine crest rails carved with shells and volutes, cabriole legs with carved shells on knees, and claw-and-ball feet. Seats covered in brown velvet cloth patterned with diamonds.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), silk (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 288485

Accession Number: 1958.288.6

Side chair

One of a set of eight side chairs with pierced splats, carved serpentine crest rails carved with shells and volutes, cabriole legs with carved shells on knees, and claw-and-ball feet. Seats covered in brown velvet cloth patterned with diamonds.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), silk (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 288486

Accession Number: 1958.288.7

Side chair

One of a set of eight side chairs with pierced splats, carved serpentine crest rails carved with shells and volutes, cabriole legs with carved shells on knees, and claw-and-ball feet. Seats covered in brown velvet cloth patterned with diamonds.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), silk (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 288487

Accession Number: 1958.288.8

Wallpaper Sample Book

Trade catalog or sample book titled "Silk Wallpapers Engraved by Walcrest." Catalog is a small fandeck with cardboard covers secured by a single metal brad. Catalog contains 25 samples of wallpapers depicting textured silk (all Pattern No. 688) in different colorways. Produced by Stamford Wall Paper...

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Stamford Wall Paper Company, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), metal

GUSN: 288492

Accession Number: 2001.281.700

Wallpaper Sample Book

Trade catalog or sample book titled "Plain Ground and Silk Wallpapers" by Katzenbach and Warren. Catalog is a small fandeck with dark green cardboard covers and is secured by a single metal brad. Catalog contains 7 samples of textured silk wallpaper (pattern # 685 XG) and 43 samples of plain ground...

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), metal

GUSN: 288493

Accession Number: 2001.281.701

Wallpaper Sample Book

Trade catalog or sample book titled "Plain Ground Wallpapers" manufactured by Katzenbach and Warren. Catalog is a small fandeck with beige cardboard covers and is secured by a single metal brad. Catalog contains 72 samples of plain ground wallpaper (pattern # 30 PG) in different colorways and one sa...

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), metal

GUSN: 288494

Accession Number: 2001.281.702

Wallpaper Sample Book

Trade catalog titled "Greenbrook IV Collection - Related Fabrics and Wallpapers - Book 24" by Katzenbach and Warren. Catalog contains 13 patterns of plastic-coated wallpaper and coordinating fabrics in multiple colorways. Patterns are based on papers from the collection of Dorothy Waterhouse. Fabri...

Date: 1959

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer) Greef Fabrics (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288496

Accession Number: 2001.281.703

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