Historic New England

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Aesthetic style floral vine pattern. Bamboo shoots in receding colors form the background, vibrantly colored floral vines the foreground. Block-printed in tan, brown, white, red, three shades of pink and three shades of green on a highly polished gray ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273887

Accession Number: 2001.281.215

Sofa

Sofa with straight back and tubular crest rail with carved floret finials. Cylidrical arms contain drawers with exterior upholstery and wooden knob pulls. Feet carved with Ionic scrolls, rosettes, and acanthus leaves. Brass castors.

Date: 1826-1826

Maker: Hancock, William, 1794- (Furniture maker)

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 273902

Accession Number: 2013.24.1

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Bouquet and sprig pattern. Large bouquets of pink and white apple blossoms alternate with small sprigs of violet flowers. Block-printed in twenty-four colors: yellow, white, three olives, four greens, red, two pinks, three mauves, three browns, blue, aqua, four violets ...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273903

Accession Number: 2001.281.216

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment with sprig pattern. Sprigs of purple pansies alternate with branches with pink berries. Block printed in cream, four browns, three aqua greens, four pinks, yellow, mustard, five violets and three greens on gray ground. Light gray stripes, printed on top of the ground, ru...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273908

Accession Number: 2001.281.217

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral bouquet and stripe pattern. Large bouquets of violet pansies and lavender alternate with smaller bouquets of the same. Stripes of metallic gold pindots run behind the bouquets. Block-printed in pink, two violets, lavender, three greens, two blue-greens, yellow,...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273913

Accession Number: 2001.281.218

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral bouquet and sray pattern. Bouquets of pink and violet flowers and grasses alternate with small sprays of pink flowers and smaller sprays of violet flowers. Block-printed in metallic gold, tan, yellow, two browns, two grays, three pinks, olive, four greens, black ...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273920

Accession Number: 2001.281.219

Wallpaper

Two matching wallpaper fragments. Large scale floral pattern of naturalistic poppies on leafy stems. Roller-printed with thin color . Visible streaking of colors. Pattern colors very faded and/or significantly changed, making it difficult to discern original shades. Appears to be printed in thr...

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273927

Accession Number: 2001.281.220AB

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Large scale diaper with enclosed sprig pattern is made more complex by Greek key diagonals defining foreground diamonds and hatchmark diagonals defining background diamonds. The result is an overall argyle pattern. Roller-printed in orange, brown, gray, two blues, three...

Date: 1865-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273929

Accession Number: 2001.281.221

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral stripe pattern with Neo-classical motifs. Dark gray stripes featuring yellow quatrefoil design alternate with light gray stripes with cartouches framing a maple leaf decorated wallshelf under a garland. Narrow horizontal stripes form background. Roller-printed i...

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273930

Accession Number: 2001.281.222

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Block-printed sprays of pink and white roses alternate with sprays and sprigs of red and white apple blossoms. Floral elements are connected by thin leafy trails. Background of gray stripes on a highly polished white ground.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273931

Accession Number: 2001.281.223

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral stripe pattern block-printed in white, two grays and maroon on polished cream ground. A central, large stripe of bouquets, baskets of flowers, and bows is flanked by stripes of small sprigs evenly spaced along a pinstripe. Running along the left edge of the paper...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273932

Accession Number: 2001.281.224

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of wallpaper, probably a showroom sample. Large-scale, floral stripe immitation of fabric. A large branch with exotic flower, fruit and leaf grow vertically over a background of pindots in a cloud-like pattern. The branch is framed on either side by wavy, stylized trailing vines w...

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273934

Accession Number: 2001.281.225

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Brocade pattern of bouquets and lacy ribbon. Roller-printed in peach, cream and olive on liquid mica green ground. Paper is embossed with fine vertical ribbing.

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 273935

Accession Number: 2001.281.226

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Diagonal pattern of rosettes and delicate scrolling vines form large-scale diaper or knot pattern enclosing vignettes of a flower filled urn. Roller-printed in rose, pink, white, black, three greens on a blue-gray ground. Paper has surface texture but does not appear to ...

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273936

Accession Number: 2001.281.227

The Traveling Teller Toy Bank

Savings bank, oval shape with slots for quarters, nickels, dimes, halves, currency, and cents. Haverhill Savings Bank.

Date: 1940-1950

Maker: The Automatic Recording Safe Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: metal

GUSN: 273948

Accession Number: 2013.26.1

The Traveling Teller Toy Bank

Savings bank, oval form with slots for quarters, nickels, dimes, halves, currency, cents, and bills. Haverhill Savings Bank.

Maker: The Automatic Recording Safe Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: metal

GUSN: 273949

Accession Number: 2013.26.2

Arm Rest\n \n

Arm rest is a tan leather/plastic with a black, sponge-like padding on one side. Arm rest functions with the black padding facing up on the driver's side vehicle window. Arm rest is screwed in to hold arm rest in place and flips into car when window is rolled up.

Date: 1930-1970

Maker: Daniel Low & Co.

GUSN: 273959

Accession Number: 2013.27.1

Heating pad

Square heating pad with attached cable and electric plug in original box. Pad includes button to turn heating pad on and off. Heating pad has cloth on both sides and can be used dual sided. Sold by T.W. Rogers Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Date: 1920-1970

Maker: T. W. Rogers Company

Material: cotton (textile), plastic (organic material), metal, yarn

GUSN: 273960

Accession Number: 2013.27.2

Silhouette of a Girl Holding a Candle

Fabric silhouette portrait of a girl with a candle in wooden frame. Girl is holding a doll with a cat by her feet. Picture is made from various pieces of cotton.

Date: 1950-1980

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), wood (plant material), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273961

Accession Number: 2013.27.3

Rag Cutter

Rag/strip cutter for making rag strips of fabric for rag rugs. Directions on how to use the device are located on the box cover along with an image of the cutter.

Date: 1920-1970

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273962

Accession Number: 2013.27.4

Pins

Bulldog Tidy Pins in original package. Twelve pins for 15 cents. Package is paper in red, black, and white. Pins are metal. Package includes a bulldog face and image of a living room chair, nightstand, and lamp. Package prints says, will keep tidies smooth and straight. And For fastening tidies a...

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, cardboard, printing (process)

GUSN: 273963

Accession Number: 2013.27.5

Fabric glue

Jiffy Sew package and liquid container in original packaging (box). Box is printed in blue and red on a white background. Each side of box has printed text and images. Box includes directions, images of objects to use product on, and advertisement/logo.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Jiffy Products, Inc

Material: cardboard, printing (process)

GUSN: 273964

Accession Number: 2013.27.6

Children's Mug

Children's mug with a transfer-printed design of the sign language alphabet. Handle has a pink streak of paint for decoration.

Date: 1825

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 273965

Accession Number: 2013.27.7

Crocheted Pincushion

Pincushion with several pins in it. Cushion is crocheted with pink and green yarn with a flat navy base. Pincushion is created resemble a cupcake.

Date: 20th century

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, acrylic (plastic), yarn, cloth, crocheting

GUSN: 273966

Accession Number: 2013.27.8

Mixer

Champion Model G electric mixer by Heinze Electric Company. Original mixer in original packaging (box). Appliance has wooden handle with metal mixer. Appliance has attached electrical plug.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, wood (plant material), plastic (organic material), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273967

Accession Number: 2013.27.9

Toy Nativity

Expandable nativity set in original box. Box sides show nativity set opened and closed to demonstrate expansion feature. Set was made in Hong Kong and is plastic, painted. All pieces are attached to one another.

Date: 1930-1980

Maker: unknown

Material: acrylic (plastic), hand-painted

GUSN: 273968

Accession Number: 2013.27.10

"Gadget Master Cooky Press"

"Gadget Master Cooky Press", in original box, Popeil Brothers, Chicago, IL, 1950-1960, No. 10. Made in U.S.A.

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard, plastic by production method, printing (process)

GUSN: 273969

Accession Number: 2013.27.11

Wallpaper

Fragment of Fresco paper. A fresco horizontal border is carefully affixed to an upright vertical boarder and striped wall panel paper. The borders immitate architectural molding and includes a floral and acanthus leaf motif. Block-printed in six shades of brown on brown ground. The papers appear...

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273070

Accession Number: 2001.281.103

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Scenery figure paper featuring two pastoral vignettes. In the first vignette, two men seated at an outdoor table smoking as a woman serves ale. A country house is in the background with the sign "Travelers Rest." In the second vignette, a couple dances to a fiddler's tune. A...

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273075

Accession Number: 2001.281.104

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Scenery figure paper featuring two pastoral vignettes. In the first vignette, two men seated at an outdoor table smoking as a woman serves ale. A country house is in the background with the sign "Travelers Rest." In the second vignette, a couple dances to a fiddler's tune. A...

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273079

Accession Number: 2001.281.105

Mug

Earthenware mug. Slightly tapered body with shaped base and ear-shaped handle. Incised band around body near top. Blue band near rim. Hand painted blue flower pot on one side, sprig of flowers in blue on the other side.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 273080

Accession Number: 1970.373

Side Chair

Painted side chair, Wood, Paint, Mother of pearl, and Cane, Probably MA, 1850-1869

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273081

Accession Number: 2012.114.1.1

Side Chair

Painted side chair, Wood, Paint, Mother of pearl, and Cane, Probably MA, 1850-1869

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273082

Accession Number: 2012.114.1.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the Clapp House in Dorchester, Massachusetts. English Pillar and Arch pattern block-printed and stenciled. Architectural elements in light blue, gray and black on gray ground. Floral swags and leaves, in green, pink and red, adorn the architectural elements. A small piece ...

Date: 1765-1770

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273083

Accession Number: 2001.281.106

Side chair

Side chair, Wood and cane, Probably MA, 1850-1869

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273084

Accession Number: 2012.114.2.1

Side Chair

Side chair, Wood and cane, Probably MA, 1850-1869

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273085

Accession Number: 2012.114.2.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Barnstable, Massachusetts. Stylized Neoclassical pattern of Medallions and Squares. Block-printed on handmade paper. Squares containing a design of an urn with quatrefoil, leaves and swans alternate with squares of a foliate sunburst composed of geometric elements. Printed i...

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273086

Accession Number: 2001.281.107

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Barnstable, Massachusetts. Floral patterned paper printed with repeating open blooms, similiar to a hibiscas, and palm fronds. Block-printed in orange, yellow and red on blue ground. Multiple handmade paper pieces, cut into various sizes and attached in different direction...

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273089

Accession Number: 2001.281.108

Wallpaper

Naturalistic floral wallpaper with floral border from West Peabody, Massachusetts. The pattern is reminiscent of both Aesthetic and Anglo-Japanese styles popular in the late nineteenth century. Roller-printed in muddied greens, orange and blue on black ground. The fragment is affixed to linen.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273092

Accession Number: 2001.281.109

Dining Table

Victorian dining table in the Georgian-revival style, extension type with three leaves and a crank mechanism.

Date: 1850

Maker: Moore & Campion (Furniture maker)

Material: mahogany (wood), veneer, inlays (decorations)

GUSN: 273099

Accession Number: 1985.745

Tall Case Clock

Hepplewhite tall case clock, mahogany and inlay. Dial inscribed "Allen Killey-Sandwich".

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), veneer

GUSN: 273101

Accession Number: 1985.746

Desk on Frame

Queen Anne desk on frame, case fitted with one long and four short drawers. Fall front encloses pigeon-hole interior compartment. Frame has cabriole legs.

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood)

GUSN: 273102

Accession Number: 1985.747

Dress fragment

Fragment of a printed muslin fabric with brown floral motif. In an envelope marked "October 26, 1891" with an accompanying letter giving history as being from a dress worn by Dorothy Quincy, wife of Governor John Hancock.

Date: ca. 1780

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273103

Accession Number: 1985.749

Mug

Earthenware mug (mochaware). Cylindrical with leaf terminal handle. Two brown bands at rim and base, with parallel wavy lines in blue slip around middle.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, mocha ware

GUSN: 273234

Accession Number: 1970.407

Mug

Earthenware mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and acanthus-type leaf decoration in relief on handle. Blue and tan body with incised bands. Painted with floral swags and border in gold.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 273235

Accession Number: 1970.419

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Large scale pattern with central shield or medallion radiating foliated scrolls terminating in flowers. Block printed in red, two grays, white and metalic silver. Paper has a rib texture and white ground.

Date: 1950-1957

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273236

Accession Number: 2000.1686

Wallpaper

Fragment of four uncut wallpaper borders. Gray leaf with architectural molding edge against red background. Block printed in two grays, white, black, yellow and red. Borders printed on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273238

Accession Number: 1918.894

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Stoughton, Massachusetts. Wide, large scale striped pattern. One stripe features alternating vignettes of a red urn with a green marble ashlar. The vignettes of this stripe are framed in borders with c-scrolls. The other stripe is alternating ashlars of gray and green marb...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273268

Accession Number: 1935.980

Wallpaper

Wallpaper and border fragments from the Timothy Johnson House, North Andover, Massachusetts. Pillar and arch pattern paper (A) with border (B) of leaves under small arches topped with a band of beading. Block-printed in black, brown and white on a grey ground.

Date: 1760-1770

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273271

Accession Number: 2001.281.110AB

Wallpaper

Three wallpaper fragments from the General Sylvanus Thayer House in Braintree, Massachusetts. Entwined, stylized floral vine and dotted ribbon with continuous dotted vine. Block-printed in white on blue paper.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 273291

Accession Number: 2001.281.111A-C

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