Historic New England

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Sanitary paper. Tile pattern with sprig framed by C-scrolls. Printed in orange and red on a yellow ground and then varnished.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: Allen-Higgins Wall Paper Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178347

Accession Number: 2000.324

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Allover design of chrysathemum sprays printed in taupe against a white grid or screen on a beige ground.

Date: 1900-1915

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178348

Accession Number: 2000.325

Unused wallpaper sample. Oval medallions, encircling flowers, framed by floral wreaths with torches and ribbon. Floral swags connect medallions to bouquets. Printed in green flock on a green mica, embossed ground.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178349

Accession Number: 2000.334

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Allover floral pattern with pin stripes in the background. Printed in two shades of taupe. Printed over pinstripes in metallic gold on an unground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178350

Accession Number: 2000.339

Wallpaper

Unused fragment. Floral stripe paper. Prints in two lavenders, two greens, black on white ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178351

Accession Number: 2000.348

Wallpaper

Unused fragment. Stylized floral fleuron set in diaper pattern. Prints in two greens, orange, periwinkle blue, white, black on tan, ungrounded paper.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178352

Accession Number: 2000.352

Wallpaper

Unused fragment. Small floral bouquet set over large leaf. Cube diapered pattern background. Prints in lavender, green, brown, white on brown, unground paper.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178353

Accession Number: 2000.353

Wallpaper

Unused fragment. Ashlar-style pattern of rectangular molding with diamond and quatrefoil patterns. Prints in blue and white on green, ungrounded paper.

Date: 1865-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178354

Accession Number: 2000.354

Wallpaper

Fragment. Coat-of-arms beneath a crown flanked by two roaring lions standing on a ribbon and surrounded by a laurel and oak leaf wreath. Printed in blue, maroon, pink and metallic gold [now tarnished] on a tan ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178355

Accession Number: 2000.357

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating floral sprays with berries printed in brown on a beige ground. Straight match.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178356

Accession Number: 2000.358

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Grey and white arabesques with stylized flower terminals and roses. Printed on a vibrant, polished, green ground. End of roll.

Date: 1840-1845

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178357

Accession Number: 2000.359

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating flowering bough with fern-like leaves and rootlets. Printed in brown, black and green on a white ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178358

Accession Number: 2000.360

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Scenery paper of alternating vignettes. Three figures in a ruin in front of a collonade with Gothic arch and scene of soldiers firing rifles. Printed in brown, raw umber, tand and light peach on a white ground. Drop match. End of roll.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178359

Accession Number: 2000.362

Wallpaper

Fragments. Framed scenes of rustic village and view of pyramids separated by interlaced strapwork. Printed in brown, raw umber, white, tan and green on a beige ground.

Date: 1850-1855

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178360

Accession Number: 2000.363

Wallpaper

Fragment. Floral stripe pattern with vertical floral vines and stylized floral elements embellishing the narrow stripes. Printed in brown, olive, orange, grey and white and green on a grey ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178361

Accession Number: 2000.371

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating green flowers with maroon pindot leaves against a grey, geometric, foliated field. Printed on a polished, white ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178362

Accession Number: 2000.372A-C

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Tufted satin accented with metallic gold to form diaper pattern with vertical, ruffled ribbons. Printed in three greys and metallic gold on a polished, white ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178363

Accession Number: 2000.373

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Meandering, woody vine with blossoms separating bamboo shoots and flying bird. Printed in tans and white on a tan ground.

Date: 1923

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178364

Accession Number: 2000.376

Wallpaper

Unused sample. One woman and three men on horseback hunting with hounds. Figures are wearing 18th-c. clothing with tricorn hats. Printed in three shades of green, three blues, grey, three browns, tan, red and overprinted with black, horizontal lines on unground paper. Drop repeat.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178365

Accession Number: 2000.380

Wallpaper

Fragment. Farm yard scenery paper. Printed in two blues, yellow, red, brown, tan and white. (Had been in Barnstable MA.) Drop repeat?

Date: 1855-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178366

Accession Number: 2000.385

Wallpaper

Fragments. Diaper pattern formed by repeating rectangle set at diagonals and enclosing clove-like sprigs. Printed in blue and brown on unground paper.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178367

Accession Number: 2000.397AB

Wallpaper

Fragments. Foliate motif in blue within a white frame. Fragment too small to identify whole pattern. Printed on unground paper.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178368

Accession Number: 2000.398A-C

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Machine printed floral garland of pink roses and smaller blue flowers entwined around a rod printed in brown, tan and ochre on a maroon field.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178369

Accession Number: 2000.592

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Two rows of uncut borders. Grisaille tri-lobed leaves alternating with brattishing in yellow and black on a red field.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178370

Accession Number: 2000.593

Wallpaper

Wallpaper ragment. Diaper pattern. Reverse printed lozenges within gray diamonds with berry centers in red and orange on unground paper.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178371

Accession Number: 2000.594

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Cut border metallic gold flower heads sprouting from caylixes on black flock field and gray ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178372

Accession Number: 2000.596

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Gothic arches alternating with cruciform shapes over a row of bead and reel moulding. Printed in three blues, black and white.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178373

Accession Number: 2000.597

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover floral vine. Bachelor buttons and daisies in orange and maroon and small gray flowers on an olive vine on light olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178374

Accession Number: 2000.598

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Cut border. Blue satin ribbon entwined with grisaille beads. Printed on gray ground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178375

Accession Number: 2000.599

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Copper engraved nursery paper. Scenes of English soldiers in training, bayonet, cavalry, lancers, artillery, etc. Printed in blue, red, yellow and black.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178376

Accession Number: 2000.600

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Gray lattice framing clusters of fruit and flowers and bunches of grapes. Printed in green and white on a gray glossy ground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178377

Accession Number: 2000.602

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Four vertical rows of white dots printed on light blue ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178378

Accession Number: 2000.604

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Alternating rose sprigs with buds in three purples and two greens on white ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178379

Accession Number: 2000.605AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover gilt flowers and ferns printed on a gray ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178380

Accession Number: 2000.606

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. White Renaissance revival cartouche framing a floral bouquet printed in tan and brown and ornamented by a flowering vine in brown and taupe on a gray ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178381

Accession Number: 2000.607

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Renaissance revival strapwork in gray ornamented with pink and red roses and bachelor buttons in brown and blue.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178382

Accession Number: 2000.613

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Renaissance revival strapwork in gray ornamented with bleeding nearts and pinks flowers with trailing tendrils on a white polished ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178383

Accession Number: 2000.614AB

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Interlace ornament in green and maroon beside a row of dog teeth and beads and lozenges in red and white. Printed on a field of maroon pin-dots and a gray ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178384

Accession Number: 2000.617

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Open lattice design formed by white pin-stripes enclosing red and green rootlets on unground brown paper.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178385

Accession Number: 2000.620

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Raised coffer design printed in tan, brown and beige enclosing white patera on a gray field.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178386

Accession Number: 2000.623

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Grisaille ashlar blocks or coffers with egg and dart and bead and reel edges alternating with a panel of a continuous stylized berried vine.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178387

Accession Number: 2000.624

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern of highly stylized gray provencals framing green arabesques ornamented with black diaper pattern. Printed on gray ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178388

Accession Number: 2000.626

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. White renaissance revival strapwork ornamented with red roses on a white striated field on unground paper.

Date: 1845-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178389

Accession Number: 2000.630

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Repeating tri-lobed foliate forms printed in two greens above a row of yellow, tan and brown molding. Printed on brown ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178390

Accession Number: 2000.632

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Large sunflower surrounded by scrolling foliage. Printed in brown, tan, maroon, red and yellow on a metallic gold basket weave embossed ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178391

Accession Number: 2000.633

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Geometric tapestry pattern in orange, blue and brown surrounded by a narrow brown stripe with orange sprigs. Printed on unground paper.

Date: 1865-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178392

Accession Number: 2000.636A-C

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Cut border. Continuous band of stylized roses and daisies and small blue five-petaled flowers. Bordered above and below by geometric elements. Printed on maroon ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178393

Accession Number: 2000.638