Historic New England

Wallpaper

Framed wallpaper sample. Paper is roller printed, machine-made Chinoiserie with a red background. Consists of four different sections, each separated by a bamboo lattice-like design. Two vignettes feature people holding musical instruments, while the other two contain vaises of pink and white flowe...

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 248396

Accession Number: 2007.9.2

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Greeting card; photograph with inscription.

Maker: (Artist)

Material: photographic prints, ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248419

Accession Number: 1984.58.7

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photograph with graphic of packing box in red, white, and black. With inscription.

Date: 1943

Maker: Paepcke, Walter, 1896-1960 (Artist)

Material: photographic prints, paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 248420

Accession Number: 1984.58.8

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Birthday card to Walter Gropius from Herbert Bayer; depicts hazy red background with finger print and clouds, boy in lederhosen costume with a staff at right bottom corner.

Date: 1943

Maker: Bayer, Herbert, 1900-1985 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 248426

Accession Number: 1984.58.13

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Clipping from magazine or other publication affixed to a pink card. Clipping includes a photograph depicting a man demonstrating how an object may be suspended in a jet of air without any other support; handwritten inscription in red ink beneath photograph.

Date: 1943

Maker: Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, d. 1945 (Artist)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248430

Accession Number: 1984.58.15

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Birthday card to Walter Gropius: Berlin work picture matted in a blue paper greeting card. Image depicts a blue bird in a tree with a mountain behind, blue sky with a flying bird, and other trees and flowers. Colors include blue, green, tan, and red, with a dark green and pink border. A small piece ...

Date: 1943

Maker: Storrow, Helen Osborne, 1864-1944 (Artist)

Material: Berlin woolwork, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248432

Accession Number: 1984.58.16

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Greeting card depicts man sitting in a chair with his head in his hands with a bubble above his head with a photograph of a woman; sepia and black and white photographs arranged in a collage.

Date: 1943

Maker: Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981 (Artist)

Material: photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248433

Accession Number: 1984.58.29

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage on pink backgroud; black and white photograph depicts Ise Gropius; photograph surrounded by three small feathers and a small card with her initial "I" in calligraphy.

Date: 1943

Maker: Gropius, Ise (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), feather (material), photographic paper

GUSN: 248434

Accession Number: 1984.58.31

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photograph affixed to a blue card with red corners. Photographic depicts a man in a sergeant's uniform with an inscription above his head in the top right corner.

Date: 1943

Maker: Feininger, T. Lux, 1910-2011 (Photographer)

Material: black-and-white photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248435

Accession Number: 1984.58.36

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photographic portrait depicting the head and shoulders of a man (Josef Albers) in a suit and tie. A small piece of paper with the inscription Albers in black ink is affixed to the photograph below Albers's face; second inscription in white ink in bottom left corner of photograph.

Date: 1943

Maker: Albers, Josef, 1888-1976 (Artist)

Material: black-and-white photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248436

Accession Number: 1984.58.40

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black and white photograph depicts woman (Anni Albers) seated surrounded by many large spools of thread.

Date: 1943

Maker: Albers, Anni (Artist)

Material: black-and-white photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248437

Accession Number: 1984.58.41

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Wood block print depicting buildings; pasted to black and white dotted card; print signed and dated.

Date: 1943

Maker: Feininger, Lyonel Charles, 1871-1956 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, pencils (drawing and writing equipment)

GUSN: 248438

Accession Number: 1984.58.48

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Card depicts handprint on a background with German inscription, black handprint on blue, red and yellow background; protractor in front.

Date: 1943

Maker: Schawinsky, Xanti (American painter, photographer, and illustrator, 1940-1979) (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, paint (coating), protractors

GUSN: 248439

Accession Number: 1984.58.49

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photograph depicts a group of young men and women with an inscription.

Date: 1943

Maker: Feininger, Andreas Bernhard Lyonel, 1906-1999 (Artist)

Material: photographs

GUSN: 248440

Accession Number: 1984.58.50

Table

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248441

Accession Number: 1984.499

Trinket Box

Ceramic box with lid; painted decoration.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248442

Accession Number: 1969.1203

Dining Table

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248443

Accession Number: 1969.1256

Curtains

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248444

Accession Number: 1969.1667

Table Mat

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248445

Accession Number: 1969.2566

Curtain

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248446

Accession Number: 1969.3323

Curtain

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248447

Accession Number: 1969.3384

Textile Fragment

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248448

Accession Number: 1969.3385

Textile

Bolt of fabric plus some fragmetns. Bold floral print on an apricot and cream ground. Fabric was used in the Drawing Room.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248449

Accession Number: 1969.3386

Pewter Chamberstick

Pewter chamberstick with laterally positioned injectors; saucer-like bobecheon ringed cylindrical shaft with injector and bulbous base on deep circular drip pan with fingerhold ring and disc-shaped rest.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin alloy

GUSN: 248451

Accession Number: 1991.1318.1

Textile

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248452

Accession Number: 1969.3419

Textile Fragment

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248453

Accession Number: 1969.3420

Textile Fragment

Length of fabric; printed linen; yellow field with ribbon and garlands; tan, black, white.

Date: ca. 1890

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), printed textile materials

GUSN: 248524

Accession Number: 1969.3462

Chintz Window Curtain

One pair from a set of three pairs with matching slipcovers and dressing table flounce; glazed chintz; block print; blue stripe with central floral vine.

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz

GUSN: 248526

Accession Number: 1969.3463.3AB

Chintz Window Curtain

One pair from a set of three pairs with matching slipcovers and dressing table flounce; glazed chintz; block print; blue stripe with central floral vine.

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz

GUSN: 248528

Accession Number: 1969.3463.4AB

Chintz Window Curtain

One pair from a set of three pairs with matching slipcovers and dressing table flounce; glazed chintz; block print; blue stripe with central floral vine.

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz

GUSN: 248529

Accession Number: 1969.3463.5AB

Chintz Window Curtains

One pair from a set of three pairs with matching slipcovers and dressing table flounce; glazed chintz; block print; blue stripe with central floral vine.

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz

GUSN: 248530

Accession Number: 1969.3463.6AB

Textile Fragment

Textile fragment from fabric used to make set of three pairs of curtains with matching slipcovers and dressing table flounce; glazed chintz; block print; blue stripe with central floral vine.

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz, printed textile materials

GUSN: 248532

Accession Number: 1969.3463.12

Chairseat Slipcover

Chairseat slipcovers; large red and green stripes flanked by smaller black and white stripes.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248534

Accession Number: 1969.3466.1

Chairseat Slipcover

Chairseat slipcovers; large red and green stripes flanked by smaller black and white stripes.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248536

Accession Number: 1969.3466.2

Soup Spoon

Silver soup spoon, with a scrolled floral decoration, and the initial "B" engraved on the handle.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 247030

Accession Number: 2002.29.9.6

Soup Spoon

Silver soup spoon, with a scrolled floral decoration, and the initial "B" engraved on the handle.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 247031

Accession Number: 2002.29.9.7

Soup Spoon

Silver soup spoon, with a scrolled floral decoration, and the initial "B" engraved on the handle.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 247033

Accession Number: 2002.29.9.8

Soup Spoon

Silver soup spoon, with a scrolled floral decoration, and the initial "B" engraved on the handle.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 247034

Accession Number: 2002.29.9.9

Soup Spoon

Silver soup spoon, with a scrolled floral decoration, and the initial "B" engraved on the handle.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 247035

Accession Number: 2002.29.9.10

Soup Spoon

Silver soup spoon, with a scrolled floral decoration, and the initial "B" engraved on the handle.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 247036

Accession Number: 2002.29.9.11

Soup Spoon

Silver soup spoon, with a scrolled floral decoration, and the initial "B" engraved on the handle.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 247037

Accession Number: 2002.29.9.12

Pickle Fork

Three-pronged silver pickle fork, with two scrolls atop the handle. The initial "B" is engraved on the handle.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal), engraving (action)

GUSN: 247038

Accession Number: 2002.29.10

Pair of Salt Spoons

Two silver salt spoons, with rounded bowls. Both spoons have the initial "B" , and a shell motif, on their respective handles.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: sterling silver, engraving (action)

GUSN: 247041

Accession Number: 2002.29.11

Salt Spoon

Silver salt spoon with a rounded bowl. The handle features both an initial "B" and a shell motif.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 247044

Accession Number: 2002.29.11.1

Salt Spoon

Silver salt spoon with a rounded bowl. The handle features both an initial "B" and a shell motif.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 247045

Accession Number: 2002.29.11.2

Bell

Silver bell, with a spindly handle. The exterior of the bell is engraved with several scenes and motifs, including a house, a tree, a yard, a fence, and a group of birds. Alongside there decorations, there is the inscription "Wife / from / Husband / June 6, 1860". Both the aforementioned pictures an...

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal), engraving (action)

GUSN: 247047

Accession Number: 2002.29.12

Veil from Wedding Ensemble

White lace wedding veil with a crown of yellow flowers, and a brown hair comb attached. The fabric of the veil is accented with floral and leaf designs. The veil was worn by Lucy Maria Tappan when she married Henry Chandler Bowen on June 6, 1844.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: lace (needlework)

GUSN: 247050

Accession Number: 2002.29.14

Wedding Dress Fragment

White silk fragment of the wedding dress worn by Lucy Maria Tappan at her wedding to Henry Chandler Bowen on June 6, 1844. The silk fabric is decorated with a floral and foliate pattern or design.

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 247053

Accession Number: 2002.29.16

Bertha

White lace bertha, with a floral and foliate pattern or design.--see curators notes and object file for full details.

Date: ca. 1850

Maker: unknown

Material: lace (needlework)

GUSN: 247058

Accession Number: 2002.29.17

Black Lace Veil

Black lace veil, decorated with floral, circular, and wave designs or patterns. The veil belonged to Lucy Maria Tappan (Bowen).

Date: ca. middle 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: lace (needlework)

GUSN: 247059

Accession Number: 2002.29.18

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