Historic New England

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

Captain Oliver Lane House

View of a house and wharf built by Captain Oliver Lane in Annisquam, MA, in 1833. Center of the scenic picture is a large white house, with an ell and a white fence surrounding the house. In the foreground is a river with three boats and a wharf, other houses and figures of people looking out window...

Date: October 1859

Maker: Wiggin, Alfred J. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2777

Accession Number: 1991.1227

Foot Warmer

No description

Date: 1700-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: incising, iron (metal), nailing, oak (wood), piercing, pine (wood), wrought

GUSN: 2778

Accession Number: 1991.1228

Portrait of Jacob Goold

Rectangular format, waist length portrait of Jacob Goold. Depicts an old man with night cap style hat and house coat. Holding a book, index finger on left hand points down. Facing left side of painting. Oil on panel.

Date: 1803

Maker: Greenleaf, Benjamin, 1769-1821 (Maker)

Material: boards (flat objects), oil painting (technique), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 2779

Accession Number: 1991.1229

Candle Lantern

Tin and glass candle lantern; two large glass panels on the sides; other sides are tin with shaped windows, pierced round top and loop strap handle; painted green with tin leaf-like motifs attached to the shoulders.

Date: 1790-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), molding (forming), piercing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 2780

Accession Number: 1991.1230

Doorstop

Round and thick, emerald green pressed glass doorstop with starburst flower pattern on the top.

Date: 1830-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: coloring, glass (material), pressing

GUSN: 2781

Accession Number: 1991.1231

Hand Mirror

Long, oval wooden hand mirror with delicate stringing around the glass; pine handle tapers and is pierced and has two round inlaid bits of ebony; seems to be a woman's.

Date: 1790-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: ebony (wood), mirrors, pine (wood), glass (material)

GUSN: 2782

Accession Number: 1991.1232

Blanket Chest

Rectangular bright aqua blue-painted pine blanket chest; overhanging hinged lid above projecting front and rear panels; inset sides with bracket feet; nailed and glued construction.

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: nailing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2783

Accession Number: 1991.1233

Footstool

Rectangular overhanging top; shaped and carved apron with carved bootjack ends; painted dark green and decorated in yellow with a pinstripe reserve enclosing leafy vine and the inscription "Frances Jane Fernald" upon the top; the front side apron is carved with pinwheels and hearts, heightened with ...

Date: 1805-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2784

Accession Number: 1991.1234

Comb-back Windsor Side Chair

Comb-shaped crestrail over seven rod-turned spindles and baluster-turned stiles on shaped seat; raised on four splayed and bulbous turned legs; side stretchers and medial stretcher; painted black with yellow-gold pinstriping.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2785

Accession Number: 1991.1235

Washstand

Pine washstand painted bright yellow with dark and lighter brown outlining; painted motif of a potted, flowering plant on a tripod on the splashboard; squared galleried top; shaped splashboard with corner shelves and sloped sides around a double-top; cut-out bowl holder with solid removable top; fou...

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, gluing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2786

Accession Number: 1991.1236

Chest of Drawers, or Case of Boxes

Red-painted pine "box of drawers" or "case of boxes" as they were known; small chest form with 6 drawers- 3 rows and 2 columns; pine knobs on a molded plinth base; large dovetails at top.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2787

Accession Number: 1991.1237

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer printed pearlware chamberpot; squat, globular body on a small, rounded foot with a side strap handle; fitted lid with flat top, concave sides and ring handles; allover underglaze blue transfer print decoration with pastoral English landscape which shows figures in a landscape;...

Date: 1815-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2788

Accession Number: 1991.1238AB

Chamber Pot

Pearlware child's chamber pot ; squat, irregular bulbous body on low, flared foot; flat overhanging rim and scroll handles; decorated with hand-painted underglaze blue floral decoration and blue bands to rim and foot.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (image-making), hand-painted, pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2789

Accession Number: 1991.1239

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer-print ironstone child's chamberpot; squat, globular body on low ring foot with rounded outflared rim and strap handle; light-blue transferprint scenes of exotic buildings in a landscape and leafy vine trim, marked IRONSTONE/FRIBURG/G. PHILLIPS, LONGPORT.

Date: 1834-1848

Maker: Phillips, George (Maker)

Material: ironstone (pottery), throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2790

Accession Number: 1991.1240

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer-print pearlware chamber pot, of squat globular form with a low straight foot, a flat overhanging rim and a strap handle. It has a underglaze blue transfer-print decoration of figures in a country landscape with cows and houses in the forground and background, as well as a conf...

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2791

Accession Number: 1991.1241

Chamber Pot

A Pearlware chamber pot of squat globular form with shoulder to body handle and a flat overhanging rim. It is decorated with an underglaze blue freehand decoration of a bold, stylized scrolling vine between blue ribbed bands around the sides. There is a leaf decoration to the rim and handle and it b...

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: appliqué (technique), molding (forming), painting (coating), pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2792

Accession Number: 1991.1242

Doll's Canopy Bed

A tall-post canopy bed with a flat rectangular canopy resting on four pencil-turned posts and pencil-turned tapering lower posts, as well as a shaped rectangular headboard. There are four rails and it is all red-stained.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), staining

GUSN: 2793

Accession Number: 1991.1243

Doll Mattress

Of rectangular form, white linen with hand-sewn seams and stuffed with old blankets.

Date: 1840-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), sewing (process)

GUSN: 2794

Accession Number: 1991.1244

Doll Bed Canopy and Headcloth

A canopy for a flat-top doll's bed; an off-white cotton printed with delicate floral sprigs in brown, red, green and pink. All sides are ornamented with a cotton tape border with yellow and red wool swags. The headcloth is of the same fabric and is tacked into place.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 2795

Accession Number: 1991.1245AB

Doll Blanket

Of square form, patterned with a field of a white lined grid over a medium blue grid on a butternut ground, and enclosed by a plaid border in like colors.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), weaving

GUSN: 2796

Accession Number: 1991.1246

Mourning Picture for Josiah Bartlett and Mary Bartlett

Of rectangular format, of a woman bent over a neoclassical sarcophogus resting on claw feet on a rusticated base, in a wooded landscape with a foreground stream. There are trees behind and on the side and over the tomb, as well as a vine of roses. She is draped in classical style- white dress and a...

Date: 1795-1812

Maker: Bartlett, Laura, 1799-1872 (Artist) Miss Rowson's Academy for Young Ladies

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2797

Accession Number: 1991.1248

Folio Lithograph

Colored lithograph of oblong rectangular format. It shows a small sailing schooner flying the American flag, with six men onboard, rounding the Eastern Point Light. Beside the lighthouse there stand two men waving hats and a woman waving a handkerchief. It has a plain black frame with thinly painted...

Date: 1873

Maker: Haskell & Allen (Maker)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 2798

Accession Number: 1991.1249

Watercolor

Of rectangular format, of a landscape with large trees and rolling hills. On the banks of a pond is a rectangular tomb with an urn on top, adorned with a garland of roses. A cactus plant is on the forground rocks. It is possible that the gold frame with rope molding is original. [see photo neg.#4751...

Date: 1818-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2799

Accession Number: 1991.1250

Watercolor

A watercolor memorial painting, showing in the center a rectangular tomb surmounted by an urn and a wreath of roses. At left is a woman in mourning in a grey dress and scarf. To her left is a leafy tree with a bold trunk painted in oils, and two houses- one white and one yellow. At her right stands ...

Date: 1818-1825

Maker: Jarvis Newell, Mary (Maker)

Material: ink, oil paint (paint), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2800

Accession Number: 1991.1251

Watercolor

An almost square format, still life with a fluted blue bowl sprinkled with mica. It is filled with stenciled fruit of indeterminate kinds in yellow, pink and purple shades. In an original red-painted frame and glass.

Date: Sept. 1827

Maker: Stearns, Mary Ann H. (Maker)

Material: ink, mica (mineral), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2801

Accession Number: 1991.1252

Sewing Box

Paint-decorated sewing box of low rectangular form, the hinged top is painted with a scenic land and seascape view, enclosed in a yellow oval border and black ground. The sides are yellow with red outline and also with long green ovals with curvilinear freehand designs in white. It has a metal inter...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: Miller, J. (Maker)

Material: nailing, painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2802

Accession Number: 1991.1253

Covered Basket

Covered basket, of flattened round form. Of fine, tightly woven straw with black and reddish Native American design woven into the sides and small black design on the rim on the flat fitted cover.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: straw (plant material), weaving

GUSN: 2803

Accession Number: 1991.1254AB

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