Historic New England

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Granite pattern of random speckles. Printed in black, white and red on a grey ground. Possible block design.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178236

Accession Number: 2000.634.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Corner section of fresco paper. Plain gray paper. No visible pattern.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178237

Accession Number: 2000.635.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral stripe. Repeating orange flowees alternating with reverse printed white floral vine on a gray ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178238

Accession Number: 2000.637.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Striped with stylized floral ornament alternating with meandering vine. Printed in yellow, orange and black on unground paper.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178239

Accession Number: 2000.637.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover, floral design. Printed in green on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178240

Accession Number: 2000.639.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Striped design. Stylized berries alternating with flowers or foliate vine stripe.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178241

Accession Number: 2000.639.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Losenges framing foliate elements within quatrefoils. Motifs are bisected and half are printed in black, the other half white. Printed on uncut pages from a book.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: Moses Grant Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178242

Accession Number: 2000.639.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover foliate design. Printed in gray and green on white ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178243

Accession Number: 2000.652.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Plaid stripe with coral or seaweed edges bordering whide band of coral or seaweed elements surrounded by concentric ripples. Printed in coral, black and white on a blue ground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178244

Accession Number: 2000.652.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral border. Repeated bunches of flowers "growing" along base line. Printed in maroon, red, orange, olive and black on a tan ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178245

Accession Number: 2000.653

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Continuous eliptical frames enclosing stylized floral elements.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178246

Accession Number: 2000.659.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern formed by small blue and white quatre foils framing larger blue quatre foils within white lozenges. Printed on brown unground paper.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178247

Accession Number: 2000.659.1

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Scenic paper showing peasants at work; feeding geese, washing laundry, cutting hay. Printed in two greens, two browns, tan, blue, pink, and beige on blue/gray paper. Drop repeat.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178248

Accession Number: 1915.117

Unused sample. Landscape scene of rural town with church and mill. Cows drinking from a duck pond in foreground. Printed in four greens, brown, tan, salmon, blue and yellow on unground paper, overprinted with black pin dots.

Date: 1900-1919

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178249

Accession Number: 1919.310

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern in imitation of ironwork with Renaissance mounts and ormolu floral motifs at crossbars. Printed in brown, tan and sienna on a blue field and unground paper.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178250

Accession Number: 1922.1090

Wallpaper

Fragment of floral stripe wallpaper. Pattern consists of four vertical panels; diamond-trellis, stylized leaf with berry leaf and floral. Printed in pink, red, green, black, white on blue ground.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178251

Accession Number: 1923.205

Bandbox

Square, pasteboard bandbox. Landscape figure paper with scene of mother and child in a garden. Son is in a chair with wheels (from a chariot) and mother pulls him along. Block printed in red, varnish green and white on a yellow ground. Strip of Renaissance Revival paper on each side. Border on lid f...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178252

Accession Number: 1923.211AB

Bandbox

Oval, wooden bandbox (A) with lid (B) covered in floral and foliate paper. Pink and white flowers with green leaves. Printed in red, pink, white and two greens on a blue ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178253

Accession Number: 1946.123AB

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Vertical stripes with vertical repeat of stylized floral elements. Background of faint narrow stripes. Printed in red, green, pink, black and brown on a peach ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178254

Accession Number: 1967.118

Wallpaper

Large-scale birds and foliage and vines printed in blue. Paper has tan, irregular, horizontal striations to suggest grass cloth or woodgrain.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178255

Accession Number: 1969.458A-D

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Four spandrels form circular panels of fresco paper or ceiling paper. Corner sprays connected to berried vines with grisaille beaded moulding. Printed in two purples, lavender, red, rose, two pinks, three greens, tan, white and two greys on polished white ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178256

Accession Number: 1971.191

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. A willow and floral design printed in ochre and pink on buff unground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178156

Accession Number: 2000.1683.3

Wallpaper

Fragment of wallpaper. Diaper pattern printed in white on a grey ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178157

Accession Number: 2000.1683.2

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment. Foliate vine of black grapevine-like leaves printed below a row of yellow cable.

Date: 1875-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178158

Accession Number: 2000.174b

Wallpaper

Rolled fragments. Repeating grid of daisy sprigs against a field of grey and white foliate vines. Printed in red, orange, yellow, pink, white and black. Straight match.

Date: 1875-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178159

Accession Number: 2000.174a

Wallpapered Fireboard

Wallpaper border with continuous pattern of undulating foliage forming C-scrolls and cartouches. Embellished with beads, diagonal stripes, pindots, small flowers. Printed in gold and black and red flock on a gold ground.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178160

Accession Number: 2000.2221B

Wallpaper

Fragment. Blue stripe separated by wide bands of entwined foliated vine. Printed in blue and brown on unground paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178161

Accession Number: 2000.273.2

Wallpaper

Fragment. Allover, meandering vine with willow-like leaves and stylized flowers against a field of berried vines. Printed in orange, green, tan and black on an embossed, salmon ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178162

Accession Number: 2000.273.3

Wallpaper

Fragment. Repeating fleur-de-lis in two sizes on an imitation woodgrain field. Printed in maroon, olive, yellow and tan on an unground or beige ground.

Date: 1895-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178163

Accession Number: 2000.276.10

Wallpaper

Fragment. Foliate motif with stems the form mouchette on a field of stripes and small concentric circles. Printed in three greens and maroon on a beige ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178164

Accession Number: 2000.276.11

Wallpaper

Fragments. Beige with no identifiable pattern.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178165

Accession Number: 2000.276.3

Wallpaper

Fragment. Foliated rosette flanked by stylized foliate motif. Printed in yellow and brown on a tan ground.

Date: 1885-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178166

Accession Number: 2000.276.4

Wallpaper

Fragments. Asymmetrically arranged flowers enclosing flowers and geometric designs. Printed in olive green, red and yellow on a black ground.

Date: 1885-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178167

Accession Number: 2000.276.5

Wallpaper

Fragments of allover floral design (?). Design is unidetifiable. Printed in green, red, blue and black on a tan ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178168

Accession Number: 2000.276.6

Wallpaper

Fragment. Allover, stylized flowers patterned with diaper patterns and geometric designs. Pritned in blue, grey and yellow on a grey ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178169

Accession Number: 2000.276.7

Wallpaper

Fragment. Repeating rosettes edged in beading and alternating with geometric star motif. Printed in red and brown on a tan ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178170

Accession Number: 2000.276.8

Wallpaper

Fragment. All ver design on stylized flowers and C-scrolls in blue liquid mica and grey on a beige ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178171

Accession Number: 2000.276.9

Wallpaper

Fragment. Repeating stylized flower sprig against a field of imitation needlework, cable stitch stripes. Printed in maroon, green and olive on a beige ground.

Date: 1910-1915

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178172

Accession Number: 2000.276.12

Wallpaper

Fragments. Red and grey, entwined scrolls on a green, red, grey and liquid mica speckled field.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178173

Accession Number: 2000.278.14B

Wallpaper

Fragments. Rectangular ashlar blocks alternating with octagonal panels framing foliate medallions. Printed in green, maroon and white on a grey field.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178174

Accession Number: 2000.278.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern formed by foliate mouchette enclosing stylized flowers and berries. Printed in beige and burgundy on unground paper.

Date: 1895-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178175

Accession Number: 2000.278.10A

Wallpaper

Fragment. Band of continuous roses printed above a row of simplified daisy blossoms. Pritned in yellow on unground paper.

Date: 1895-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178176

Accession Number: 2000.278.10B

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover tan and yellow, foliate scrolls with small, yellow flowers. Printed in tan, yellow, white and maroon on a beige background.

Date: 1895-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178177

Accession Number: 2000.278.11A

Wallpaper Border

Wallpaper border fragment. Continuous yellow and tan, foliate scrolls with yellow flowers and outlined with maroon circles. Printed on beige ground.

Date: 1895-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178178

Accession Number: 2000.278.11B

Wallpaper

Fragment. Diaper pattern formed by repeating black scrolled element framed by green brattishing and enclosed within losenges formed by stylized fleur-de-lis. Printed in black, ochre, green, yellow and liquid mica on a beige ground.

Date: 1900-1905

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178179

Accession Number: 2000.278.12

Wallpaper

Fragment. Repeating scrolled foliate elements on a diapered ground above a continuous row of quatrefoils outlined with brattishing. Printed in black, green, brown, yellow and liquid mica on a beige ground.

Date: 1900-1905

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178180

Accession Number: 2000.278.12B