Historic New England

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of nursery wallpaper from Middleton, Massachusetts. Comic scenes based on nursery rhymes are presented in an assymetrical pattern of squares and circles in the Anglo-Japanese style. Branches of mountain holly, or catberry, poke out between the scenes from behind. Scenes include Tom t...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 285870

Accession Number: 2001.281.459

Wallpaper

Three fragments of striped wallpaper from North Eastham, Massachusetts. Blue stripes with blue dots applied over orange ground. Stripes of orange ground are printed with white dots. Wove paper, partial sheets.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: wove paper

GUSN: 285879

Accession Number: 2001.281.460A-C

Wallpaper with border made of needlepoint pattern paper

Three wallpaper fragments from North Eastham, Massachusetts. Allover Aesthetic style floral pattern in which negative space (or background) is printed to form the pattern. Block-printed in dark ochre on dark brown ground. Heavy paperstock. A border fashioned from needlepoint pattern paper is attac...

Date: 1870-1875

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 285939

Accession Number: 2001.281.461A-C

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the Alexander House on Main Street in Northfield, Massachusetts. Marble pattern roller-printed in black, olive, gray, and peach on off-white ground. See related border fragment 2001.281.462.2.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 285952

Accession Number: 2001.281.462.1

Wallpaper Border

Wallpaper border fragment from Alexander House on Main Street in Northfield, Massachusetts. Novelty border depicting Native Americans sitting at a fire. Over the fire is a large pot on a tri-pod. The Native Americans wear headbands with feathers and loinclothes, one smokes a long pipe. The surround...

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 285957

Accession Number: 2001.281.462.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the North Reading Library, Massachusetts. Sprig and vine pattern copied from a high quality French paper (see related objects). Block-printed in gray and green on white ground. Wove paper, partial sheets.

Date: 1840-1845

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 285974

Accession Number: 2001.281.463

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the North Reading Library, Massachusetts. Ashlar pattern of three-dimensional blocks with central floral element. Blocks are separated by vertical foliate vine. Block-printed in green and white on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 285975

Accession Number: 2001.281.464

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the North Reading Library, Massachusetts. Aesthetic style allover foliate pattern with stylized fruit and flowers. Persian stylistic influences. Roller-printed in light olive, maroon and metallic gold on olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 285992

Accession Number: 2001.281.465

Wallpaper

Fragment of Renaissance Revival style stripe wallpaper from the North Reading Library, Massachusetts. Large-scale cartouche with scrolls, strapwork and beads frame floral bouquet. Central cartouche element is flanked on both sides by partial stripes in the same style. Block-printed in red and whit...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 285998

Accession Number: 2001.281.466

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Square lozenges with concave corners separated by rosettes on faux marbleized background. Block printed in two greens and three grays on light gray ground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286001

Accession Number: 1992.173

Wallpaper

Two wallpaper fragments from the North Reading Library, Massachusetts. The fragments made up of unmatched layers and patches of the same wallpaper. Full pattern not visible. Appears to be an Aesthetic style version of a damask with central floral figure encircled by floral vines and scrolling, styli...

Date: 1885-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 286010

Accession Number: 2001.281.467AB

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in "Fuscia" by Cowtan & Tout, Inc. (NY) with continuous stripe of fuschia blossoms and vines separated by metallic gold guilloche. Block printed in two greens, pink, rose, blue and metallic gold on an embossed white ground. Based on an English block printed wallpaper from 1...

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286871

Accession Number: 2000.959

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Milliken" pattern by Clarence House (NY) with very large scale baroque floral design in imitation of cut velvet. Machine printed in dark green on a green ground. Based on an English block printed paper from 1880-1900 desigend by Henry H. Mott and originally printed ...

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286872

Accession Number: 2000.906

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Florentine Diaper" pattern by Clarence House (NY) with an all-over design of repeated sylized floral elements outlined in small dots. Block printed in rose on pale pink ground. Based on an English block printed wallpaper from 1880-1900.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286873

Accession Number: 2000.934

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Florentine Diaper" pattern by Clarence House (NY) with an all-over design of repeated sylized floral elements outlined in small dots. Block printed in ple blue on a denim blue, liquid mica ground. Based on an English block printed wallpaper from 1880-1900.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286874

Accession Number: 2000.922

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Small Acanthus" pattern by Clarence House (NY) with large scale Aesthetic style scrolling acanthus leaves and flowers. Machine printed in green on a green ground. Based on an English block printed wallpaper from 1880-1910.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286875

Accession Number: 2000.913

Rug

Rectangular wool carpet with repeated pattern of diamond-shaped guls separated by narrow striped bands. Primary colors are red, brown and blue.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 286876

Accession Number: 1958.366

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Small Acanthus" pattern by Clarence House (NY) with large scale Aesthetic style scrolling acanthus leaves and flowers. Machine printed in tan on a cream ground. Based on an English block printed wallpaper from 1880-1910.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286877

Accession Number: 2000.920

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Willow Leaves" pattern by Cowtan & Tout, Inc. (NY) with an all-over design of willow leaves in taupe with green veins. Screen printed on a cream ground. Based on an English block printed wallpaper from 1880-1900.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286878

Accession Number: 2000.956

Wallpaper

Six fragments of wallpaper from South Wellfleet, Massachusetts. A stylized floral bouquet is centered on a background of small sprigs. A floral stripe runs vertically along right side of pattern. Block-printed in red and white on orange ground. Laid paper, partial sheets. Fragments D and E retai...

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 286879

Accession Number: 2001.281.507.1A-F

Wallpaper Border

Wallpaper border fragments from South Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Flower and ribbon pattern. Pink and blue flowers are linked by ribbon festoons and bordered above and below by orange and yellow lines in a geometric pattern. Details of the border are not clear due to poor condition. Block-printed ...

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 286880

Accession Number: 2001.281.507.2A-E

Wallpaper Border

Small fragment of floral wallpaper border. Flower and ribbon border fragment very similar to, and found with, 2001.281.507.2A-E. Pink flowers linked by ribbon and bead garlands. Stripes with geometric pattern above and below the floral design. Block-printed in green (appears brown), blue, pink, r...

Date: 1795-1810

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 286887

Accession Number: 2001.281.508

Wallpaper Border

Wallpaper border fragment with masonry rosette pattern. Block-printed in white, dark red, and orange on gray ground.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 286890

Accession Number: 2001.281.509

Wallpaper

Four fragments of wallpaper with all-over rose sprig pattern. Naturalistic rose sprigs with pink blossoms, buds and foliage over a background of grasses and foliage shadowed in blue. Roller-printed in white, two light pinks, two olives, ochre, brown and turquoise on light blue ground. Selvedge mar...

Date: 1880-1887

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

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286894

Accession Number: 2001.281.510A-D

Wallpaper

Three fragments of geometric wallpaper from South Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Repeating pattern of fleur-de-lis figures framed by tear-shaped cartouches over a background of small fleur-de-lis figures. Roller-printed in pale green, dark green, white, black and metallic silver on olive ground.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 286897

Accession Number: 2001.281.511A-C

Wallpaper

Multiple fragments of scenery figure wallpaper from West Newton, Massachusetts. The wallpaper pattern consists of two alternating columns, each with two different alternating scenes, one large and one small. The scenes include a castle wall with towers, a timber frame cottage, an arched building w...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286926

Accession Number: 2001.281.512A-C

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment with geometric pattern from West Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Alternating, stencil-like rosette figures form an overall geometric pattern resembling a tile mosaic. Block-printed in blue and white on ungrounded, pink paper. Wove paper, partial sheets. Lathe marks, from a later wall ...

Date: 1810-1825

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 286934

Accession Number: 2001.281.513

Wallpaper

Scenic wallpaper fragments from Winchendon, Massacusetts. Scenery and masonry square pattern with three scenery figures, each in a separate column, alternating with masonry squares. The scenes depict a cottage by a lake with a boat, a stone bridge over a waterway with swans, and a castle above a wa...

Date: 1900

Maker: York Wall Paper Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286937

Accession Number: 2001.281.514AB

Wallpaper

Two fragments of Rococo Revival wallpaper from Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Floral sprigs in a framework of asymmetrical foliate scrollwork. Block-printed in gray, green and either red or yellow on white ground.

Date: 1845-1850

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 286957

Accession Number: 2001.281.515.1AB

Wallpaper

Two fragments of Renaissance Revival wallpaper from Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Strapwork pattern block-printed in blue, black, brown, and white on tan ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 286958

Accession Number: 2001.281.515.2AB

Wallpaper

Fragment of damask-style wallpaper from the Salisbury Mansion, Worcester, Massachusetts. Foliate and grain stalk damask. The central design element is a large "U" or lyre-shaped foliate and scroll figure. Grain stalks, or possibly hops flowers, rise from the top of the figure and dangling from its ...

Date: 1811-1817

Maker: Probably Moses Grant, Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)

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

GUSN: 286959

Accession Number: 2001.281.516

Wallpaper Sample Book

Wallpaper sample book titled "Harmony House Color Perfect Wallpapers, Color Magic for Every Room" by Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog has over seventy wallpapers with suggestions for their use, coordinating papers and othe decorating tips. Catalog also includes wallpaper supplies. Catlaog cover has a ...

Date: 1948

Maker: Sears, Roebuck and Company

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287024

Accession Number: 2001.1

Wallpaper Sample Book

Wallpaper sample book titled "Richard E. Thibaut / Peerless Wall Papers / No. 1 1909 / New York Brooklyn / Boston Newark / The Largest Wall Paper House In The World." Book is covered with a heavy green paper with a dark green fabric tape binding. A fabric tape is strung through two holes in the bind...

Date: 1909

Maker: Richard E. Thibaut Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), ceiling papers, textile materials

GUSN: 287026

Accession Number: 1999.57

Wallpaper Scrapbook

Brown leather-bound scrapbook with a maroon binding over a wooden spine. Scarpbook contains fourteen pages of used fragments of wallpaper from the Jackson Homestead, 527 Washington Street, Newton, MA.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), leather, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 287027

Accession Number: 1966.193

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper sample in the "Honeysuckle" pattern by Cole & Son (London) with all-over densely arranged foliage with flowering honeysuckle blossoms. Block printed in green and brown on a white ground.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287032

Accession Number: 2000.866

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper with trellis design formed by white interlace on a bright green ground. Made by Cole & Son (London); pattern name unknown.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287034

Accession Number: 2000.876

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Ronald Reagan's Boyhood Home" pattern by Birge (Buffalo, NY) with an all-over floral design in imitation of tapestry. Machine printed in grey, taupe, tan, pink, blue and black on a light grey ground.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287035

Accession Number: 2000.884

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Eisenhower's Home" pattern by Birge (Buffalo, NY) with an all-over designs of bloughs with blossoms. Machine printed in taupe and blue on a white textured ground.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287037

Accession Number: 2000.885

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in "The Jeffrey" pattern by Birge (Buffalo, NY) with a diaper pattern of small leaf sprigs enclosed within hexagons. Machine printed in two blues, olive green and light green on an ivory ground.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287040

Accession Number: 2000.886

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper with all-over design of yellow and orange sunflowers with blue, tan, green and brown leafy foliage. Machine printed on black ground. Reproduction of a 1922 Charles Birchfield design by Birge (Buffalo NY).

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287041

Accession Number: 2000.887

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Victorian" pattern by Birge (Buffalo NY) with repeating octagonal coffers in two sizes separated by arabesques and framing rose colored fields with grid of eight-pointed stars and single stylized leaf. Machine printed in tan, white, rose and pink on a grey ground.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287043

Accession Number: 2000.888

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Westwood" pattern by Birge (Buffalo NY) with narrow stripe of small blue entwined floral vine alternating with stripe of light blue stylized blossoms, scrolling leaves and berries. Machine printed on a white ground.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287044

Accession Number: 2000.889

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in "Sunny Side" pattern by Birge (Buffalo NY) with grid formed by stylized vines and blossoms framing alternating rose sprays and mixed floral sprays. Printed in taupe on a cream background.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287049

Accession Number: 2000.890

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Teddy Roosevelt's Nursery Paper" by Birge (Buffalo, NY) with vertically repeating vignettes of seaside village with mill and sailboats, traverlers in a wooded glen, and view of a Medieval village. Machine printed in tan, peach, brown, blue, blue-green, and white on a...

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287050

Accession Number: 2000.891

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Windsor Rose" pattern by Birge (Buffalo, NY) with an all-over design of large scale rose sprays. Machine printed in brown, red, pink, rose, two greens, grey and beige on a white ground.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287051

Accession Number: 2000.892

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Lincoln's Box at Ford Theatre" pattern by Reed, Ltd. Striped design with wide band of small mauve floral and leaf sprigs alternating with narrow stripe of black entwined vine edged with mauve floral "lace". Screen printed on a polished maroon ground.

Date: 1970-1979

Maker: Reed, Ltd. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287052

Accession Number: 2000.893

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "New England Colonial Gothic" pattern by Birge (Buffalo NY) with grisaille Gothic archesa and niches entwined with ivy framing view of meidieval castle. Machine printed in two greys and metallic gold on a light grey ground.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287053

Accession Number: 2000.894

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Governor Gore Mansion" pattern by Birge (Buffalo NY) with a loosely arranged repeated motif of a peacock perched in a flowering and berried plant. Machine printed in two browns, three greens, yellow and two blues on a white ground.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287054

Accession Number: 2000.895

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Colonel Pope" pattern by Birge (Buffalo NY) with an ashlar pattern of alternating panals of floral and fruit sprays and rosettes framed by scrolling foliage. Machine printed in yellow, ochre and metallic gold.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287055

Accession Number: 2000.896

Wallpaper

Rococo Revival wallpaper fragment. Naturalistic rose bouquet framed by c-scrolls and strapwork. Block-printed in three grays, white, green, and red on polished white ground.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 287056

Accession Number: 2001.281.517

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