Pair of black bar pins with floral decoration on sides of front.
Date: 1870-1900
Maker: unknown
GUSN: 101830
Accession Number: 2006.44.230ab
Seed with tortoiseshell design, red seed, and pine cone necklace.
Date: 1870-1925
GUSN: 101831
Accession Number: 2006.44.231
Pair of metal bar cuff links with slightly chipped surface.
GUSN: 101832
Accession Number: 2006.44.232ab
White seed necklace.
GUSN: 101833
Accession Number: 2006.44.233
Side chair. Fancy form. Shaped back with rounded edges; baluster splat; yoke crst; cane seat. Ring-turned front legs and front stretcher. Retains original black paint with stained and gold-stenciled decoration on splat, crest, and stiles.
Date: 1830-1855
Material: caning, graining, maple (wood), stenciling
GUSN: 55031
Accession Number: 1976.466.2
Armchair; Bow-back Windsor form. Painted yellow with gilt highlights.
Date: 1785-1800
Material: painting (coating), wood (plant material)
GUSN: 55032
Accession Number: 1934.2893
Fan back side chair, painted black.
Date: 1790-1800
GUSN: 55033
Accession Number: 1917.1257
Serpentine crest & front rail; half serpentine wings which break at the horizonally rolled arms, serpentine apron, square tapered front legs with string inlay (later casters), square canted rear legs (caster cups only) and marlborough legs.
Date: 1790-1810
Material: mahogany (wood)
GUSN: 55036
Accession Number: 1971.484
Pierced splat, scrolled ears, marlb legs, str stretchers, mod uph
Date: 1760-1790
Material: mahogany (wood), pine (wood), sweet gum (wood), upholstering
GUSN: 55038
Accession Number: 1951.182
GUSN: 55039
Accession Number: 1952.25
GUSN: 55040
Accession Number: 1952.26
Fancy side chair with mahogany grain-painting and a rush seat.
Date: 1820-1840
Material: graining, pine (wood), rush (material)
GUSN: 55041
Accession Number: 1985.712.2
GUSN: 55042
Accession Number: 1985.712.3
GUSN: 55043
Accession Number: 1985.712.4
GUSN: 55044
Accession Number: 1985.712.5
GUSN: 55045
Accession Number: 1985.712.6
Square back with four fluted collonettes; reeded legs, spade ft; scrolled arm
Date: 1890-1920
Maker: Possibly Hagen, Ernest (Maker)
Material: ash (wood), mahogany (wood)
GUSN: 55046
Accession Number: 1987.72.2
Square-back side chair; mahogany wood; chalk inscription on the rear seat rail marked "Fisk" could refer to either William or Samuel Fiske of eastern Massachusetts. Rests on fluted Marlborough front legs and rear legs that flare outward at base; H-shaped stretchers.
Date: 1790-1805
Maker: Fiske, William, 1770-1844 (Maker) Fiske, Samuel (Maker)
GUSN: 55047
Accession Number: 1977.170.2
GUSN: 55048
Accession Number: 1977.170.3
GUSN: 55049
Accession Number: 1977.170.4
GUSN: 55050
Accession Number: 1977.170.5
One of a pair of side chairs. Probably maple; black paint over white paint over black paint. Bannister back, rush seat, Ring-and-baluster-turned legs and stile with ring-turned finials; stay rail has cyma-curved apron; two swell and ring-turned front stretchers.
Date: 1700-1740
Material: maple (wood), rush (material)
GUSN: 55054
Accession Number: 1973.79
Chair with carved arms and legs. Caned/pierced laminated back. Casters on front legs.
Date: 1850-1870
Material: laminating, leather, mahogany (wood), upholstering
GUSN: 55055
Accession Number: 1987.413.2
Chair with tall carved and pierced foliate laminate back, upholstered seat.
Date: 1890-1910
GUSN: 55056
Accession Number: 1987.413.3
GUSN: 55057
Accession Number: 1987.413.4
2 slat back; caned seat; green paint reveals prev. stencil on pnk
Date: 1855-1870
Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)
GUSN: 55058
Accession Number: 1978.70.6
GUSN: 55059
Accession Number: 1978.70.7
GUSN: 55060
Accession Number: 1978.70.8
Baloon back, crvd crest & rail, serpentine seat, frnt caster
Date: 1845-1860
Material: rosewood (wood)
GUSN: 55063
Accession Number: 1987.66.2
Half-length portrait of Mr. Rufus Cook of Boston, with black coat and stock. Husband of Mrs. Cook (1925.862).
Date: 1835-1845
Maker: Howes, Samuel P. (Artist)
Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)
GUSN: 55064
Accession Number: 1925.863
Half-length portrait of a child in a white dress, arms folded.
Date: 1825-1850
GUSN: 55065
Accession Number: 1933.1737
A bust length portrait of Charles Frederick Russell, a Boston man who died at sea at age 23, in a black coat, with auburn hair parted to one side.
Date: 1840-1850
Material: oil paint (paint), panels (wood), panel paintings (painting by form)
GUSN: 55066
Accession Number: 1918.1386
Bust-length portrait of Priscilla Manchester (1773-1852) wearing a lace bonnet and black dress with lacy sleeves. Wife of Captain Isaac Manchester (1964.18).
Date: 1806-1807
Maker: Thompson, Cephas (Artist)
GUSN: 55067
Accession Number: 1964.19
Portrait of Elizabeth Blackler of Marblehead, MA, in a black shawl with patterned border, seated in a red chair. Grandmother of Charles Proctor.
Date: 1845-1850
Maker: Wall, William Allen, 1801-1885 (Artist)
Material: canvas
GUSN: 55068
Accession Number: 1955.2
Portrait of John Webster holding a newspaper, bookshelves in background.
GUSN: 55069
Accession Number: 1952.467
Cross stitch; wool on canvas; count repeat design.
Date: 1850
Material: canvas, needlepoint (needleworking), wool (textile)
GUSN: 55071
Accession Number: 1964.280
Landscape with brick gambrel-roofed house with two chimneys, two dormers, and center hall.
Date: 1825-1875
GUSN: 55072
Accession Number: 1951.138
Portrait of a woman in white dress seated in white bow-backed windsor armchair. Wife of Edwin Bacon Sears.
Date: 1895-1900
GUSN: 55073
Accession Number: 1987.1462
Cream-colored cotton; ruching with self-fabric piping and two cane hoops at brim; 14 cane hoops; center back panel insert; original neck ruffle (bavolet) has been replaced--but remains of piped edge of original are still visible; center back panel supported and stiffened by a piece of square cardboa...
Date: ca. 1850
Material: cane (plant material), cotton (textile), stitching, nylon
GUSN: 55074
Accession Number: 1988.140
Sheer white cotton with white cotton embroidery; lace-edged tie.
Date: 1810-1840
Material: cotton (textile)
GUSN: 55076
Accession Number: 1989.1
White kid; long ramp 5"; slit ramp; round stacked heel.
Material: leather
GUSN: 55077
Accession Number: 1989.2AB
Cream and blue plaid linen; tucked at waist; no waistband; long cotton tape ties.
Date: 1815-1850
Maker: Chase, Lydia Woodbury, 1801-1859 (Maker)
Material: linen (material)
GUSN: 55078
Accession Number: 1989.3
Long dress; cream; printed with small red and brown rose buds alternating with geometric arrangement of small picotage triangles; drawstrings at neck; shirred bodice; capped sleeves with scalloped edge; hook and eye at waistband, eyes are thread loops.
Material: cotton (textile), stitching
GUSN: 55079
Accession Number: 1989.4
This slipper is made from white kid edged and tied with blue ribbon. The toes are square and they have leather soles with no heel.
Date: 1848
Maker: Robinson, C. (Maker)
Material: kidskin
GUSN: 55080
Accession Number: 1989.5
Cream stockings with a rounded zig-zag pattern on the front. At top written in ink is 'S.J.O. Aug 16 1848'. Top is banded with two pink stripes.
Material: cotton (textile), knitting (process)
GUSN: 55081
Accession Number: 1989.6AB
Printed--orange check ground with red dots with black highlights; printed neck and waistband--brown border with small branches and black geometric shapes; short scalloped sleeves gathered at shoulder; four pearl buttons at back; self piping.
Material: cotton (textile), transfer printing
GUSN: 55082
Accession Number: 1989.7
Image woven into textile: sir walter scott & scott's mnmt
Material: silk (textile)
GUSN: 55083
Accession Number: 1989.8
Design woven into textile
Date: 1840-1880
GUSN: 55084
Accession Number: 1989.9
White fine knit stokcings with a lacy pattern and two red stripes at the top.
GUSN: 55085
Accession Number: 1989.10AB
Plain white stockings with two broad and three narrow red stripes at the top.
GUSN: 55086
Accession Number: 1989.11AB