Historic New England

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Pattern consists of alternating large and small sizes of stylized iris or lily. Printed in red, dark olive, metallic gold and white on tan, chevron-embossed ungrounded paper. Drop repeat.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176386

Accession Number: 1985.26.516

Wallpaper

Unused sample of border. Pattern consists of stylized scroll and crown-shaped motif. Printed in green and black on olive, pebbled textured, embossed ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176387

Accession Number: 1985.26.517

Wallpaper

Unused sample of border, kilim-style pattern. Printed in red, mustard yellow, light yellow, blue, light green, dark green and black on ochre ground. Overprinted with black pin dots.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176388

Accession Number: 1985.26.518

Wallpaper

Unused sample of border. Pattern consists of roses and curving leaf, buds, and beads. Edged with cabling. Printed in pink, brown, metallic copper, metallic gold, and light green on darker green mica ground. Rib textured paper.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176389

Accession Number: 1985.26.519

Wallpaper

Unused sample of imitation tapestry paper. Floral design of poppies in red, pink, yellow, three greens, and bluish-grey on olive ground. Overprinted with black screen.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176390

Accession Number: 1985.26.520

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Imitation silk damask with bouquets of flowers and wheat framed by foliate scrolls draped with floral garlands. Printed in cream and tan on a field of narrow, metallic gold pin stripes on an embossed, taupe liquid mica ground. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176391

Accession Number: 1985.26.522

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large diaper pattern formed by scalloped losenges outlined in white arabesques and framing wild rose bouquets surrounded by wild rose wreaths. Printed in two pinks, rose, lavender, three greens, yellow, white, blue, grey-green on a grey ground. Straight match.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176392

Accession Number: 1985.26.523

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Baroque Revival floral design surrounded by scalloped stiff leaf frame. Pink damask design on an embossed, salmon colored, moire ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176393

Accession Number: 1985.26.524

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Densely arranged, scrolling acanthus leaves framing a floral bouquet in an urn. Printed in green, salmon, tan, white, metallic copper and pewter on a metallic gold field and an embossed, ochre ground. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176394

Accession Number: 1985.26.525

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Background of diaper pattern with strapwork cartouches and flowers in the foreground. Printed in beige, teal, red, brown and light brown on a dark taupe ground.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176395

Accession Number: 1985.26.528

Wallpaper

Unused sample of floral paper. Printed in white and beige on mauve, mica ground.

Date: 1885-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176396

Accession Number: 1985.26.531

Wallpaper

Unused sample of paper. Pattern consists of acanthus leaf scrolling around lance with fleur-de-lis spearhead. Printed in two browns and black on oatmeal colored, herringbone embossed paper. Drop repeat.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176397

Accession Number: 1985.26.532

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Bottom and top band of facing triangles. Central pattern of stylized leaves framed by scrolling lines of beads. Printed in red, burgundy, gold, black on a white ground.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176398

Accession Number: 1985.26.534

Wallpaper

Unused sample of floral paper consisting of peonies(?) and scrolling foliage. Printed in grey, yellow and gold on mauve, liquid mica ground. Ribbed embossed paper.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176399

Accession Number: 1985.26.535

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Pattern consists of wreath tied at bottom with ribbon and topped with bowl and floral bouquet. Printed in white, metallic copper, metallic gold and liquid mica on beige sand ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: Carey Brothers (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 176400

Accession Number: 1985.26.536

Wallpaper

Unused sample of floral paper. Pattern consists of meandering Frescan-like flowers and scrolling leaf. Printed in pink, white, liquid mica and metallic gold on light pink textured ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176401

Accession Number: 1985.26.538

Wallpaper

Unused sample of floral and scrolling foliage paper. Printed in grey and metallic gold on beige ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176402

Accession Number: 1985.26.539

Wallpaper

White losenges with Greek keys at the intersections framing metallic gold, foliate sprigs printed on a grey ground. Straight match.

Date: 1875-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176403

Accession Number: 1985.26.54

Wallpaper

Wallpaper with iris and daffodil pattern. Printed in oranges, yellows, greens and pinks on beige ground. Drop pattern.

Date: 1934-1940

Maker: Imperial Wallcoverings (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177558

Accession Number: 1988.31a

Wallpaper

Wallpaper printed with green and light green foliate stripe and geometric shapes on grey ground. Straight match. Goodwin pattern.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177559

Accession Number: 1988.21a

Wallpaper

Wallpaper with medallion pattern printed in white on grey scrolls and daisy wreaths on yellow ground. Straight match.

Date: 1930-1950

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177560

Accession Number: 1988.17a

Wallpaper

Wallpaper depicting floral bouquets within lozenges formed by pansy chains. Printed in two purples, ochre, white, pink, and green on periwinkle ground. Straight match.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177561

Accession Number: 1988.18

Wallpaper

Wallpaper depicting medallions with beaded edges that frame floral sprig on pin dot ground. Printed in white, beige, and brown on blue ground. Straight match.

Date: 1935-1945

Maker: Imperial Wallcoverings (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177562

Accession Number: 1988.29a

Wallpaper

Fragment. Repeated Rococo scrolled pattern in blue against a vertical pin-stripe field in red on a white ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177563

Accession Number: 1971.184.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper with tapestry design of vine with fruits (pomegranates and pears) and flowers. Printed on embossed paper in green, blue, yellow, two browns, and red on beige ground. Drop pattern.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: Crown Wallpapers (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177564

Accession Number: 1988.27

Wallpaper

Wallpaper with Chinoiserie pattern. Printed in two blues on white ground. Machine made paper. Drop match.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177565

Accession Number: 1988.11a

Wallpaper

Wallpaper with allover willow tree pattern. Printed in two blues, two tans and white on beige ground. Drop match.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177566

Accession Number: 1988.15a

Wallpaper

Wallpaper with striped pattern. Printed in beige, off-white and liquid mica on pink ground. Paper has grosgrain embossed texture.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177567

Accession Number: 1988.16a

Wallpaper

Wallpaper depicting ocean motif composed of waves with fish, sea gulls and sail boats. Printed in red, grey, silver, liquid mica and black on beige ground.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: Prager Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177568

Accession Number: 1988.25a

Wallpaper

Colonial Revival wallpaper depiciting courting scenes. Printed in two greens, blue, yellow, two pinks and black on beige ground. Straight match.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: United Wallcoverings (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177569

Accession Number: 1988.26

Wallpaper

Fragment of stylized curvilinear form, highlighted with black dots, set in framed rectangle. Prints in browns, green, black and white on grey ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177570

Accession Number: 1931.783

Wallpaper

Scenic wallpaper depicting fox hunt. Printed in two greens, red, blue, brown, tan, black and white on beige ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1925-1935

Maker: York Wallpaper Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177572

Accession Number: 1988.10a

Wallpaper

Scenic wallpaper depicting fox hunt and stage coach. Printed in two greens, brown, grey, tan, red and white on tan ground. Drop match.

Date: 1923-1940

Maker: J.C. Eisenhart Wall Paper Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177573

Accession Number: 1988.22a

Wallpaper

Wallpaper depicting a repeating design of a house with a gambrel roof, a cape house, a lighthouse, a church and a sail boat, each within a meandering vine border. Printed in red, green, two browns, white, and tan on beige ground. Drop pattern.

Date: 1950-1955

Maker: York Wall Paper Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177574

Accession Number: 1988.28a

Wallpaper

Wallpaper with floral bouquets of iris, tulips and fresia. Printed in two blues, two greens, two yellows, and dark grey on grey ground. Drop pattern.

Date: 1930-1950

Maker: York Wall Paper Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177575

Accession Number: 1988.30a

Wallpaper

Wallpaper with bouquets divided by vine and taupe stripes on beige ground. Printed in taupe, red, green, white and ochre on tan ground. Straight match.

Date: 1923-1935

Maker: York Wallcoverings (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177576

Accession Number: 1988.19

Wallpaper

Wallpaper printed with circus vignettes. Printed in red, orange, yellow, blue, green and white with red pin dots on light blue ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: United Wallcoverings (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177577

Accession Number: 1988.8

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Machine printed sprig pattern in two blues and two browns with brown dots on unground paper. Straight repeat.

Date: 1860-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177578

Accession Number: 1986.1102

Wallpaper

Two fragments. Small-scale diaper pattern framed by white, reverse printed diamonds outlined in brown with blue, stylized flower heads in the centers. Straight repeat.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177579

Accession Number: 1986.1101AB

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Thin strips of grass tinted blue-grey and woven together with thread.

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: grass (plant material), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177580

Accession Number: 2000.162

Wallpaper

Fragment of Walt Disney cartoon character paper showing Mickey and Minnie Mouse on a picnic with Pluto, Donald Duck with train, Goofy, Pinocchio with Bambi, and two of the seven dwarfs. Light pink (?) ground with pattern printed in blue, pink, yellow, brown, black, red, orange.

Date: 1945-1950

Maker: Possibly Sunworthy (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177581

Accession Number: 1980.198

Wallpaper

Three unused rolls. Pattern composed of lacy medallions inset with rose nosegay. Octagonal medallion separated by leaves and small, circular medallion. Printed in pink, green, yellow on yellow-green ground.

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Galligan, William J. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177582

Accession Number: 1978.210A-D

Wallpaper

Four partial rolls. Pattern composed of long-tailed bird (a finch?) set within a scalloped-shaped, floral medallion. Prints in green, brown, mauve, yellow on green ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177583

Accession Number: 1978.205A-E

Wallpaper

Four fragments that fit together. Pattern features a central medallion with foliage inside and is framed by beading. Above and below medallion is flowing ribbon and on the side are flowers and foliage. Printed in two greys on a light grey ground.

Date: 1915-1920

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177584

Accession Number: 1952.470

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Repeating diaper pattern with stylized medallions in each losenge. Small diamonds separate the large losenges. Printed in taupe, two greys on a gray-green ground.

Date: 1915-1920

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177585

Accession Number: 1952.469

Wallpaper

Four unused rolls and fragments. Imitation woven design. Printed in gold, yellow, orange, green, cream on tan ground.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177586

Accession Number: 1978.207A-E

Wallpaper

Eight partial rolls of wallpaper. Allover floral pattern composed of peonies, poppies, mums, daisies and other assorted flowers. Printed in two yellows, two greens, beige on white ground.

Date: 1965-1975

Maker: unknown

Material: vinyl

GUSN: 177587

Accession Number: 1978.222

Wallpaper

Two unused rolls. Diapered pattern of small tulip motif. Prints in pink on white ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177588

Accession Number: 1978.221ab

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper roll. Pattern composed of rosette and swans flanking a lyre set within stencilled squares. Printed in white and grey on ochre ground.

Date: 1945-1950

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177589

Accession Number: 1950.600

Wallpaper

One length [Fragment A] and seven fragments [b-h] of the scenic paper "Les Jardins Francais." This panel depicts two women and a man in a park with a statue and balustrade. The architectural ornaments in the garden are derived from classical sources.

Date: 1822-1837

Maker: Zuber et Cie (Manufacturer) Mongin, Antoine-Pierre

GUSN: 177590

Accession Number: 1929.1853.1A-H

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