Historic New England

Petticoat

White linen; 1 button closure at back; buttonhole center front below waist; cotton tape loop inside waist center front; ruffled hem; over ruffle at knee with vertical tucks followed by eyelet insert, horizontal tucks & scalloped hem trimmed with eyelet.

Date: 1904-1914

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material)

GUSN: 845

Accession Number: 1969.5643

Petticoat

Pink wool flannel; knee length; waist lined with cotton; cotton twill tape drawstring; featherstitching above hem.

Date: 1885-1908

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering, wool (textile)

GUSN: 846

Accession Number: 1969.6677

Petticoat

White cotton gathered to self waistband with button closure at back; ruffle attached at knee trimmed with four tucks ane eyelet band at hem; slight train; extra fullness at back.

Date: ca. 1860

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 847

Accession Number: 1969.7207

Petticoat

White cotton; hip yoke with two button closure in back; ten rows of horizontal tucks above hem; eyelet trimmed over ruffle attached below tucks.

Date: ca. 1890

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), eyelets (components)

GUSN: 848

Accession Number: 1969.7209

Petticoat

White cotton; hip yoke with two button closure in back; four rows of horizontal tucks above hem; over ruffle at hem trimmed with three horizontal tucks.

Date: 1875-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 849

Accession Number: 1969.7211

Nightgown

White linen; Small pointed collar edged with eyelet; Tucked, pointed front yoke; three button placket center front concealed under eyelet band; Body gathered to yoke; Piping at armscye and back yoke; Long sleeves gathered at shoulder; one button wrist and eyelet edged turned back cuffs.

Date: ca. 1861

Maker: unknown

Material: eyelets (components), linen (material)

GUSN: 850

Accession Number: 1969.5199

Nightgown

White linen; Small pointed collar edged with eyelet; Tucked, pointed front yoke with four rows of embroidery among tucks; three button placket center front concealed under eyelet band; Body gathered to yoke; Piping at armscye and back yoke; Long sleeves gathered at shoulder; one button wrist and...

Date: ca. 1861

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material)

GUSN: 851

Accession Number: 1969.5202B

Nightgown

White collar; Eyelet ruffle around neck and down left side of front placket; Band of foliate embroidery of neck ruffle, front yoke and cuffs; Body gathered to yoke; Broad tucks across front yoke; three buttons down center front under concealed placket; Long sleeves gathered at shoulder with eye...

Date: 1880-1889

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering, eyelets (components)

GUSN: 852

Accession Number: 1969.5341

Nightgown

White cotton; Ruffle around neck to bottom of yoke; Body gathered to yoke front and back; Front yoke has three sets of tucks on either side of placket with lace insert between first and second sets; two buttons in center front placket; Long sleeves with ruffled cuff.

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework)

GUSN: 853

Accession Number: 1969.5350

Nightgown

White linen; Square collar edged with eyelet; Piped shoulder yoke; four button placket center front (buttons missing) with self ties at throat; Piped armscye; Long sleeves with eyelet trimmed turned back cuff.

Date: 1840-1849

Maker: unknown

Material: eyelets (components), linen (material)

GUSN: 854

Accession Number: 1969.5983

Nightgown

White linen; Square collar, edged with eyelet; Piped shoulder yoke; four button placket center front (buttons missing) with self ties at throat; Piped armscye; Long sleeves with eyelet trimmed turned back cuff.

Date: 1840-1849

Maker: unknown

Material: eyelets (components), linen (material)

GUSN: 855

Accession Number: 1969.6325

Nightgown

White cotton; Small pointed embroidered and scalloped collar; three buttons down center front concealed under embroidered and scalloped placket. Yoke trimmed with two rows of feather stitching between three rows of tucks on either side of placket; Body gathered to yoke at back; Long sleeves with...

Date: ca. 1885

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering

GUSN: 856

Accession Number: 1969.7233

Handkerchief Wrap

Cream colored; edged with cotton twill tape; tape extends in corner below monogram into two ties; monogram in one corner.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering, stitching, linen (material)

GUSN: 857

Accession Number: 1969.5290

Handkerchief

Bright blue and white with brown, black and white satin stripe.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), stitching, silk (textile)

GUSN: 858

Accession Number: 1969.5291

Handkerchief

Cream colored background; Edged with light green gray stripes along four edges; Small diamond motifs at center square; Edges turned back with drawn work.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: embroidering, stitching, linen (material)

GUSN: 859

Accession Number: 1969.5292

PETTICOAT

White cotton; hip yoke with 2 button closure in back; ruffled hem; over ruffle attached at knee with scalloped hem & embroidered diamond pattern; cotton tape loops inside waist on right & left sides.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering, stitching, machine-made

GUSN: 860

Accession Number: 1969.7223

Petticoat

White cotton; hip yoke with two button closure at back; four rows of horizontal tucks above hem; over ruffle attached at hem, trimmed with three horizontal tucks.

Date: ca. 1890

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 861

Accession Number: 1969.7232

Dust Ruffle

White eyelet, banded at top and bottom with smaller eyelet threaded with pink satin ribbon tying in bows; double ruffle hem with three horizontal tucks above scalloped eyelet edge.

Date: ca. 1905

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), eyelets (components), silk (textile)

GUSN: 862

Accession Number: 1969.5634

Dust Ruffle

White sheer stiff cotton; hemmed top; two lace inserts above hem, three rows of horizontal tucks between inserts; ruffled hem trimmed with three horizontal tucks and edged with lace.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 863

Accession Number: 1969.5640

Dust Ruffle

Cream silk taffeta gathered to self band with twenty-one button holes; trimmed with scalloped self ruffle.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), taffeta

GUSN: 864

Accession Number: 1969.5642

Dust Ruffle

White cotton; hemmed top; self ruffle edged with eyelet ruffle; double ruffle on one side.

Date: ca. 1890

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), eyelets (components)

GUSN: 865

Accession Number: 1969.5644

Bustle Ruffle

White cotton, gathered all around to self band with sixteen buttonholes. Plainweave cotton ruffle with applied button band for attaching to petticoat

Date: ca. 1860

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), stitching

GUSN: 866

Accession Number: 1969.7217

Bustle Ruffle

White cotton; knee length; gathered all around to self waistband; five buttons down center front; fifteen buttons around body, 2/3 down from waist, backed inside with twill tape; twill tape lattice down center back to support bustle.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), stitching

GUSN: 867

Accession Number: 1969.7228

Bustle Ruffle

White cotton, gathered all around to self band with sixteen buttonholes.

Date: ca. 1860

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), stitching

GUSN: 868

Accession Number: 1969.7234

Dressing Gown

White cotton; shirred ruffle around band collar; yoke, open front, sleeves, and hem all trimmed with embroidered band with scalloped edges; yoke gathered all around body; bell sleeves with piped armscye.

Date: 1865-1879

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering

GUSN: 869

Accession Number: 1969.5361

Bed Jacket

White linen, hip-length; small pointed collar trimmed with embroidered and scalloped band; three graduated groups of vertical tucks on upper body; three small buttons; right placket trimmed like collar and featherstitched; long sleeves gathered to cuff trimmed like collar.

Date: 1865-1879

Maker: unknown

Material: embroidering, linen (material)

GUSN: 870

Accession Number: 1969.5781

Bed Jacket

White cotton, hip-length; smnall pointed collar trimmed with embroidered scalloped band; three graduated groups of vertical tucks on upper front; three buttons in upper body; right placket trimmed as collar and featherstitched; long sleeves gathered to cuff trimmed as collar.

Date: 1865-1879

Maker: unknown

Material: embroidering, linen (material)

GUSN: 871

Accession Number: 1969.5784

Bed Jacket

White linen, hip-length; small pointed collar trimmed with eyelet lace; piped shoulder yoke & armscye; three mother-of-pearl buttons center front; body gathered to collar; long sleeves gathered at shoulder; two buttons at cuffs.

Date: 1855-1869

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material)

GUSN: 872

Accession Number: 1969.6326

Box of Dominoes

A wooden box with a sliding cover with a thumbnail pull, enclosing 28 black and white wooden dominoes. The box is small and has dovetailed corners.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, wood (plant material), paint (coating)

GUSN: 2477

Accession Number: 1991.503

Coat of Arms

A coat-of-arms centering a gold shield with lion rampant on a checkerboard band, surmounted by a helmet and leafy mantling, and a bannerette with inscriptions below. The watercolor has worked in colors of red, gray, blue, black and white. Also, gold pigment and ink on paper. It has an original "Hoga...

Date: 1785-1795

Maker: Attributed to Searle, George, Mr. (Maker) Attributed to Cowan, Robert, Mr. (Maker)

Material: gesso, ink, painting (coating), paper (fiber product), pine (wood), sand, watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2478

Accession Number: 1991.504

Whampoa with the Vessels of Different Nations Trading to Canton

Small rectangular format, with foreground landscape and numerous vessels flying British, Dutch and American flags in the middle distance before a mountain landscape with two temples in the distant background. It has the original bevel-shaped profile frame with gilded inner molding.

Date: dated 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2479

Accession Number: 1991.505.1

The American Ship Victory

Large, almost square format with a broadside view of the ship Victory at Whampoa. There are junks and other vessels nearby, with hills in the background. In original black carved Chinese frame with gold liner.

Date: 1850

Maker: Namcheong (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2480

Accession Number: 1991.506

Royal Coat of Arms

Coat-of-arms of Great Britian and Ireland. Royal arms of King George III carved in pine. The shield is enclosed in a garter with the motto of the Order of the Garter. Arms quartered: England impaling Scotland, France, Ireland; Brunswick impaling Lunenburg, a base point of Saxony, an escutcheon of Ha...

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: Chandler, Winthrop, 1747-1790 (Maker)

Material: carving (processes), varnishing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2481

Accession Number: 1991.507

Acorn Mantel Clock

No description

Date: 1847-1860

Maker: Possibly Forestville Manufacturing Co. (Maker)

Material: glass (material), brass (alloy)

GUSN: 2482

Accession Number: 1991.509

Portrait of Anthony Waterman

Of rectangular format, portrait of a man, half length and facing slightly to the right. He has light brown hair that hangs long at the sides and his bangs over his forehead and brown eyes. He wears a high collar with a bow stock. It is in its original carved gold frame.

Date: dated 1798

Maker: Von Lyman, J. F. C. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2483

Accession Number: 1991.508

Portrait of a Minister

Large, rectangular format picture of a clergyman, shown half-length, facing right, with tabs and a black coat. He is wearing a white fitted wig. He has a full, ruddy face with a double chin and blue eyes. He holds white fabric in his hands (perhaps sugggesting baptismal, or other professional duties...

Date: September 8, 1789

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, paper (fiber product), oil pastels, pine (wood)

GUSN: 2484

Accession Number: 1991.510.1

Carpet

No description

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), knotting, wool (textile)

GUSN: 2485

Accession Number: 1991.511

Cape

A hand-sewn man's red and green plaid cape made of stiff wool and a carded stand-up collar. There are two floral carved buttons at the neck edge. It has side plackets for easy walking, and a lining of red wool in two shades.

Date: 1775-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: hand sewing, lining (process), linen (material), wool (textile)

GUSN: 2486

Accession Number: 1991.512

Cape

A hand-sewn red, green and blue plaid woman's cape with a tan lining. It has a lined collar and small shoulder cape attached. The lining is soft and fine (possibly cotton woven with silk?)

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), wool (textile)

GUSN: 2487

Accession Number: 1991.513

Shoulder Cape

A hand-sewn shoulder cape in red, green and black linen and lined in green. There is a hook and eye at the neck along with fabric tape for tying.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material)

GUSN: 2488

Accession Number: 1991.514

Portrait of a Cape Ann Builder

Rectangular format, bust length portrait of a man with black hair, gray eyes, pleated shirt and dark coat and vest; facing right side of painting; holds carpenter's plane in right hand; medium brown background; window view at right side of painting, showing a pitched roof yellow house with white tri...

Date: 1848

Maker: Wiggin, Alfred J. (Maker) Adams, J. J. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2489

Accession Number: 1991.515

Portrait of Mary Fitch Cabot (1724-1756)

Rectangular format, showing Mary Fitch Cabot, 3/4 length, sitting facing right. Behind her is a brown background and leafy trees to the left. Her brown hair is in curls at the back of her long neck. She has brown eyes and wears a silvery dress with a blue scarf over her right arm, holding a book in ...

Date: 1745-1752

Maker: Greenwood, John, 1727-1792 (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2490

Accession Number: 1991.516

Wine Glass

Clear-blown wine glass of neo-classical style, with sway and tassle etched decoration with tiny cuts around the rim, fluted cut glass stem and plan foot.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: glassblowing, cutting (dividing), etching (corroding), etching (printing process), glass (material)

GUSN: 2491

Accession Number: 1991.517

Measuring Glass

Measuring glass, blown, cone-shaped with pouring lip, stemmed and on a wide round foot, etched with measurements for teaspoons, tablespoons, dram an drops in bold lettering and numbers.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: glassblowing, etching (corroding), etching (printing process), glass (material)

GUSN: 2492

Accession Number: 1991.518

Punch Strainer

Wooden punch bowl strainer fashioned from a single piece of fruitwood. It has a round bowl with pierced-carved holes at the center. It is balanced with two flat, shaped handles/rests at either side. It is very lightweight.

Date: 1760-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), fruitwood, piercing, turning (shaping process), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2493

Accession Number: 1991.519

Decanter

Clear blown glass decanter of neo-classical style, with a cut fluting to the neck and base. It has etched decorative swags and tassles around the middle and a fluted 5-pointed stopper.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: glassblowing, etching (corroding), etching (printing process), fluting, glass (material)

GUSN: 2494

Accession Number: 1991.520AB

Caster

Brass caster with a domed, perforated top with a finial above a baluster shaped body (like a pepper shaker) of Geogian style.

Date: 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), casting (process)

GUSN: 2495

Accession Number: 1991.521

Bowl

Imari-style bowl with fluted sides and a scalloped rim. The inside is decorated with panel scenes of figures, ships and floral motifs emanating from a center medallion. The outside has floral panels and drapering. There are reign marks on the bottom of the bowl- probably a Chinese version of a Japan...

Date: 1768-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: enamel paint, gilding, porcelain, throwing (pottery technique)

GUSN: 2496

Accession Number: 1991.522

Dish, Saucer

Oblong dish with shaped sides that slopes to a well for a cup. Decorated in blue fan pattern on a swirling multi-patterned ground. Exterior is decorated with various spo motifs. The foot ring has a meander pattern.

Date: 1930-1980

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, transfer printing

GUSN: 2497

Accession Number: 1991.523

Spoon Rest

Spoon rest tray of ovoid or bulb-like form. It is decorated with underglaze blue transfer print scenes of [illeg.] execution with floral motifs and a central rectangular panel of landscape.

Date: 1813-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: ironstone (pottery), underglazing

GUSN: 2498

Accession Number: 1991.524

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