Historic New England

Pair of Curtains with Rods

Tan colored curtains with vibrant colored flowers all across the fabric. Flowers are orange, blue-green, purple, and green-tan. Curtains are fringed at the bottom. Rods are a a light, unstained wood.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 335901

Accession Number: 1969.3666.2A-E

Pair of Curtains with Rods

Tan colored curtains with vibrant colored flowers all across the fabric. Flowers are orange, blue-green, purple, and green-tan. Curtains are fringed at the bottom. Rods are a a light, unstained wood.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 335902

Accession Number: 1969.3666.3A-E

Purse

Cotton purse with red and white tassels, inkwork, and two newspaper clippings found inside regarding the reticule.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 335915

Accession Number: 1943.106

Pair of Stockings

Cream stockings with a cheveron drop stitch pattern on the upper section of the sock. Starting mid shin down is a lacy pattern that goes to the toes.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 335928

Accession Number: 1925.354AB

MINISIS TEST RECORD

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 335940

Accession Number: MINISIS_TEST

Silex Electric Coffee Makerm, composed of two glass vessals connected by a metal neck with a metal handle. Topped with a black metal lid or attachable spout. Resting on a metal base or stand with electrical outlet. Detachable electric cord with plastic ends and switch.

Date: 1936-1937

Maker: unknown

Material: glass by composition or origin, metal

GUSN: 335944

Accession Number: 2019.20.1A-H

Doll

Female doll wearing a blue hat and a bracelet. The doll wears a multicolored dress made with a ribbon, patterned fabric, and embroidered cloth, and a brown petticoat and black shoes (one shoe is missing). The wooden doll face is painted with black eyes and red lips. The red hair is braided.

Date: 1900-1950(?)

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), textiles, pipe cleaners, yarn

GUSN: 335945

Accession Number: 2019.17.2

Doll

Brown-haired female rag doll wearing a floral patterned dress, an embroidered petticoat, and underwear. Brown shoes with floral pattern. Green hair ribbon tied in bow. Drawn face with black eyebrows, blue eyes, pink lips. Fabric stuffed body. Short and curly brown hair.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: textiles, thread, stuffing (upholstering technique)

GUSN: 335946

Accession Number: 2019.17.3

Rug

Rug made of braided yarn. Yarn colors from outside inward: black and gray, white and red, white and black, white and red, white, beige, and green.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: yarn

GUSN: 335947

Accession Number: 2019.17.4

Framed Pictures

Two images with faux-gold frames. Both frames have a string attached to the backs for hanging. (A) One framed picture depicts a view of a ouse surrounded by trees and a road. (B)One framed picture is a reproduction of a apinting of a little girl wearing pink clothes.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metal, textiles

GUSN: 335949

Accession Number: 2019.17.5AB

Candlestick

Golden candlestick with a flower-shaped base, grooved stem, and crown at the capital.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal

GUSN: 335950

Accession Number: 2019.17.6

Vase

Blue vase with a rounded belly, cylindrical neck, golden leaf shaped pedestal.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, plastic by composition or origin

GUSN: 335951

Accession Number: 2019.17.7

Broom

Metalic broom with a slim handle and four wheels around the brush. The brush is covered by ornamental reliefs. The handle is decorated.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, wire

GUSN: 335952

Accession Number: 2019.17.8

Bookshelf

Golden bookshelf with three shelves, containing eight books made of paper with green, red, blue, black, brown, or purple covers.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, paint (coating), paper by composition or origin, glue

GUSN: 335953

Accession Number: 2019.17.9

Clock

Golden clock with a printed dial and metal hands. Red background behind golden pendulum. Front is painted in gold. Clocktower shaped capital. Decorated with ornamental pattern throughout.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, paint (coating), cardboard, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 335954

Accession Number: 2019.17.10

Fireplace tools

Basket containing a fireplace shovel decorated with an engraved flower pattern and a fireplace poker.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, paint (coating)

GUSN: 335955

Accession Number: 2019.17.11

Chair

Upholstered chair with a floral pattern of red flowers on beige ground. The seat is edged with fringe. Chair feet are black painted wood.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, textiles, paint (coating)

GUSN: 335956

Accession Number: 2019.17.12

Toy train

Toy train with a black locomotive, yellow coal or wood car, red wagon, and green caboose.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, paint (coating), plastic by composition or origin

GUSN: 335957

Accession Number: 2019.17.13

Chair

Upholstered chair with a floral pattern of red flowers on beige ground. The seat is edged with fringe. Chair feet are black painted wood.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 335958

Accession Number: 2019.17.14

Chair

Upholstered armchair with a floral pattern of red flowers on beige ground. The seat is edged with fringe. Chair feet are black painted wood.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, textiles, paint (coating)

GUSN: 335959

Accession Number: 2019.17.15

Armchair

Upholstered chair with a floral pattern of red flowers on beige ground. Arms covered in fabric. The seat is edged with fringe. Chair feet are black painted wood.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, textiles, paint (coating)

GUSN: 335960

Accession Number: 2019.17.16

Picture frame

A golden frame depiciting a house with a closeline and a body of water.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 335961

Accession Number: 2019.17.17

Pot

Brown plant pot with four red flowers.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products

GUSN: 335965

Accession Number: 2019.17.18

Clock

Dollhouse wall clock made of painted wood with an eagle decorating on top. The dial is a printed image on paper with a landscape painted below, depicting a classical edifice with columns.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, paint (coating), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 335966

Accession Number: 2019.17.19

Pot

Orange-brown transparent plant pot containing two flowers made of wire: one orange and red and the other silver and green; leaves are two shades of green.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: plastic by composition or origin, wire, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 335967

Accession Number: 2019.17.20

Chair

Upholstered chair with beige floral patterned fabric and fringe beneath the seat. Flowers in pattern are red. The four chair feet are black painted wood.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, textile materials by form, paint (coating)

GUSN: 335968

Accession Number: 2019.17.21

Sofa

upholstered sofa with a red floral pattern on beige fabric and fringe beneath the seat. The four feet are made wood and painted black.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, paint (coating), textiles

GUSN: 335969

Accession Number: 2019.17.22

Fireplace

Fireplace with immitation marble mantlepiece and metal depiction of a lit fire and smoke inside. Ornamented by two columns and various painted decorations.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal by composition or origin, paint (coating), plastic by composition or origin

GUSN: 335970

Accession Number: 2019.17.23

Pouffe

Upholstered pouffe with red floral pattern beige fabric and fringe beneath the seat.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, textiles

GUSN: 335971

Accession Number: 2019.17.24

Candle

A rose candle with golden brown candlestick.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, wax

GUSN: 335972

Accession Number: 2019.17.25

Chair

Painted bow-back Windsor armchair. Painted and worn finish. Thumbprint details along bow-back.

Date: 1795-1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 335973

Accession Number: 2019.21.1

Gloves

Pair of women's white gloves. Kid leather.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: kidskin, leather

GUSN: 335974

Accession Number: 2017.41.3AB

Portrait of Cyrus Bruce (dates unknown)

Portrait of Cyrus Bruce standing contraposto in front of the Langdon house door. Cyrus Bruce is depicted with his right hand on his hip and his left hand on the door knocker. He wears a purple tailcoat, yellow waistcoat, and green breeches.

Date: 2018

Maker: Haynes, Richard, Mr., Jr. (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint), wax, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 335975

Accession Number: 2019.22.1

Set of Window Curtains

Narrow, rectangular, two-tone wine red silk lampas woven in large scale strapwork medallions alternating between large and small; abstract floral designs inside and along side; cellular infill in many void spaces. Lightly gathered across top; suspended by five brass hooks. Wide hem at bottom.

Maker: unknown

Material: lampas (textile material), silk (fiber)

GUSN: 335978

Accession Number: 1934.292C

Set of Window Curtains

Narrow, rectangular, two-tone wine red silk lampas woven in large scale strapwork medallions alternating between large and small; abstract floral designs inside and along side; cellular infill in many void spaces. Lightly gathered across top; suspended by five brass hooks. Wide hem at bottom.

Maker: unknown

Material: lampas (textile material), silk (fiber)

GUSN: 335979

Accession Number: 1934.292D

Fireplace poker

Brass fireplace poker with ball finial. Squared blunt end. Poker has a metal rod wrapped around the neck to hang the poker from the arm of the firetool stand.

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal), casting (process)

GUSN: 290803

Accession Number: 1968.167.3

Dog Figurine

Ceramic figurine of a seated dog, possibly a greyhound. White with green painted base. Remnants of paint and glaze on surface, including collar and blue eyes.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 290812

Accession Number: 1931.1473

Glass Girandole

Glass girandole with two arms. Cut glass bobeche has nine suspended drops. Right arm has a single drop attached to the bottom edge of the bobeche. Split beaded chains with large drop at one end run from each bobeche up to a glass dome hung with four drops. Flattened molded glass finial. Rectangular ...

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: cut glass

GUSN: 290814

Accession Number: 1976.166.1

Wallpaper

Three fragments of neoclassical hall wallpaper from Worcester, Massachusetts. The primary motif of the pattern is two parrots perched on top of a basket of flowers and fruit [Fragment A]. In the background is a pattern of repeating small stylized white sprigs [Fragment B]. The paper includes a wid...

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 290815

Accession Number: 2001.281.960A-C

Transparency of Wallpaper Pattern

Transparency of the background pattern of the reproduction wallpaper "Louise" by Waterhouse Wallhangings. Pattern consists of small stylized sprigs.

Date: 1975-1985

Maker: unknown

Material: plastic (organic material), film (material by form)

GUSN: 290817

Accession Number: 2001.281.961

Wallpaper Border or Frieze

Fragment of Art Nouveau-style wallpaper border or frieze with flowering vine pattern. Equally spaced green stems grow upward from the bottom of the border, each with a yellow blossom in profile and two three-lobed green leaves against a red background. The vines rise and intertwine along the top o...

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 290822

Accession Number: 2001.281.962

Wallpaper

Small fragment of damask-patterned wallpaper. The wallpaper was chosen by John Quincy Adams for use in the formal sitting room of the "Old House," part of the Adams National Historical Park, Quincy, Massachusetts. The paper has a dense floral swag and foliate scrolls pattern with hanging cord and t...

Date: 1826

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 290826

Accession Number: 2001.281.963

Wallpaper

Fragment of striped wallpaper from Contoocook, New Hampshire. Pattern of stripes with alternating motifs, one stripe of stylized dandelion figures printed in white and gray, another of stylized lacy ribbon in white, and a third in solid purple. The solid stripe divides the two stripes with motifs. ...

Date: 1810-1825

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 290829

Accession Number: 2001.281.964

Decanter

Decanter (a) with cut circular stopper (b) and rectangular silver "Bourbon" label (c) hanging around decanter neck. Decanter has cylindrical bulbous body, arched shoulder, three applied rings on neck and wide flaring lip. Decanter decorated with ribbing above base and oblong panels around shoulder. ...

Date: ca. 1830

Maker: unknown

Material: cut glass, pressed glass

GUSN: 290870

Accession Number: 1993.571.2A-C

Wallpaper

Fragment of wallpaper affixed to paperboard with printed label "Wall Paper from Governor Gore House, Waltham, Massachusetts." Known as the "Devil Paper" or "Devils Paper", the wallpaper's pattern is influenced by the grotesque figures of French printmaker Jacques Callot (1592-1635). The pattern, b...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 290872

Accession Number: 2001.281.965

Vase

One of a pair of vases with deep orange enameled vignettes with gilt accents on white ground. White clay body with colorless glaze. Vasi or gallipot form with globular body and defined shoulders. Slightly tapered out at mouth. Vase decorated with gilt stylized floral devices and a feathered border a...

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 290873

Accession Number: 1972.29B

Wallpaper

Fragment of striped wallpaper from the General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace, Braintree, Massachusetts. Vertical stripes composed of six-pointed stars in circles alternate with stripes of a vine with feather-like leaves. Dividing these stripes, which are block-printed in orange and white, are stripes...

Date: 1808-1820

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 290883

Accession Number: 2001.281.966

Wallpaper

Two fragments of neoclassical wallpaper found lining a trunk from Monmouth, Maine. Large-scale pattern of foliate swags and floral sprays. The swags enclose three pastoral vignettes. Visible in these fragments are a shepherdess holding a crook [Fragment A] and a group of sheep [Fragment B]. Missi...

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: laid paper, block printing (relief printing process), stenciling

GUSN: 290933

Accession Number: 2001.281.967AB

Wallpaper

Fragment of floral wallpaper from Captain Snow House, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Naturalistic floral vine with red and white roses, blue tendrils and leaves form a background pattern on white ground. Secondary stripe in gray with metallic gold edge only partially visible. Roller-printed in two p...

Date: 1855-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 290944

Accession Number: 2001.281.968

"Jacob and Laban"

Framed print of Jacob and Laban. Artist Claude Lorrain. Engraver Wiliam Woollett. Plain gilt frame. A young man meeting an older man and two young women by the edge of the water. Cows on opposite bank. Stone arched bridge in background.

Date: 1783

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), gilding

GUSN: 290981

Accession Number: 1935.70

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