Historic New England

Wrapping paper

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11186

Accession Number: 1917.19

Wrapping paper

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11187

Accession Number: 1917.20

Wrapping paper

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11188

Accession Number: 1917.21

Wrapping paper

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11189

Accession Number: 1917.22

Wrapping paper

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11190

Accession Number: 1917.97

Weight

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: lead (metal)

GUSN: 11191

Accession Number: 1917.99

Weight

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: lead (metal)

GUSN: 11192

Accession Number: 1917.100

Weight

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: lead (metal)

GUSN: 11193

Accession Number: 1917.101

Wallpaper

Wallpaper with alternating pink and light blue flowers between dark blue spiraled stripes.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11195

Accession Number: 1917.163

Box

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11196

Accession Number: 1917.812

Reticule

No description

Date: 1855-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11197

Accession Number: 1917.814

Clothes

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11198

Accession Number: 1917.815

Stocking

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: machine-made

GUSN: 11199

Accession Number: 1917.817

Vest liner

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11200

Accession Number: 1917.818

Stocking

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: weaving, machine-made

GUSN: 11201

Accession Number: 1917.820

Strop

No description

Date: 1835-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11202

Accession Number: 1917.821

Stocking

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 11203

Accession Number: 1917.823

Stocking

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material)

GUSN: 11204

Accession Number: 1917.825

Stocking

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 11205

Accession Number: 1917.826

Stocking Fragment

Blue and white herringbone pattern knit fragment.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 11206

Accession Number: 1917.827

Portrait of a Lady with Bonnet

More than half-length portrait of a young woman with high cheekbones and blues eyes: wears a black dress with sloping shoulders, wears a close, white cap and holds a book in her left hand. In the background is a landscape of a river with a side wheel steamer, a white church and a red house on the s...

Date: 1834

Maker: Gassner, George, Mr., 1811-1861 (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 11207

Accession Number: 1991.938.2

Cloth Sample

Length of coarse, woven natural colored cotton; printed with paisley style carnations on a sinuous vine; printed in blues, reds, yellows, green, and black.

Date: 1900-1950 ?

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process), weaving

GUSN: 11208

Accession Number: 1991.1777

Cushion Cover

Each cushion has a coarse linen foundation embroidered with silk in a tent stitch in shades of yellow, blue, burgundy, pink and green; the pattern features "pronged" lozenges enclosing shaped diamonds on a field of diagonal yellow lines. The group includes two chair back covers and three seat cover...

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: embroidering, linen (material), silk (textile)

GUSN: 11209

Accession Number: 1991.1778.1-5

Bolt of Carpet

Bolt of tweedy, deep olive-green and brownish wool carpeting. Machine woven.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: weaving, machine-made, wool (textile)

GUSN: 11210

Accession Number: 1991.1779

Bedspread

Rectangular form comprised of four panels of printed glazed cotton; patterned with a design of a pheasant under a palmlike tree among a bed of flowers; printed on a coffee-colored ground with green, blue, rose, red, and black; self-bound edges; quilted overall in a diamond pattern; has a panelled an...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz, cotton (textile), printing (process), quilting

GUSN: 11211

Accession Number: 1991.1771

Set of Curtains

It includes three pieces of red wool trimmed with floral vine patterned woven braid. All are hand sewn. 1991.1774.1 is a lozenge shaped, comprised of two wool panels with a woven trim on two sides, and two other edges frayed. 1991.1774.2 is of rectangular form, comprised of three wool panels and ...

Date: 1780-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: appliqué (technique), braiding, wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 11212

Accession Number: 1991.1774.1-3

Cloth Sample

A rectangular panel of gauzy cotton which is hemmed on three edges (one side of which is selvedge); fabric is printed with a blue grid field with brown and blue birds perched on a tree branch; there are accent colors of green.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 11213

Accession Number: 1991.1775

Table Runner

Rectangular piece of material that is comprised of three panels of glazed cotton; the fabric is patterned with exotic "palm trees" planted in a flower patch; the ground is khaki colored with green, brown, red, blue, yellow and black on the trees and flowers; on the reverse is thin yellow and red str...

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), piecing, printing (process), quilting

GUSN: 11214

Accession Number: 1991.1776

Skating Scene

Oblong rectangular format; skating scene with sleighs and skaters on ice surrouned by buildings, including a prominent church, and ships in the background.

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood), oil paint (paint), panels (wood), varnishing

GUSN: 11215

Accession Number: 1992.491

Beads

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11268

Accession Number: 1917.915

Painted Trade Sign

Rectangular board embellished with borders in green stripse and blue and red dots; on the right is a stencilled figure of a horse and a man with a high-crowned hat in his hand.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: Possibly Blood, Miles (Maker)

Material: painting (coating)

GUSN: 11269

Accession Number: 1991.1065

Portrait of Prudence Waters

Rectangular format of the head and shoulders of a woman in a dark brown oval; she wears a rust rose dress with a muslin cap; the frame is ebonized with an inner gold molding.

Date: 1779

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

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 11270

Accession Number: 1991.1067.2