Historic New England

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

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

Partial roll of cut border. Medallion with leaves radiating from a quatrefoil center alternating with a bifurcated and beaded, scrolling leaf motif. Printed above a row of flowers and losenges. Printed in two greens and silver liquid mica.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178286

Accession Number: 2000.142

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Landscape figure paper. Pattern consists of two alternating, vertical stripes of a ship and a diamond or circular medallion inset with trophy motif. Diapered dot background. Prints in two greys, white on taupe ground.

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178287

Accession Number: 2000.1425

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Landscape figure paper. Vignette of mill alternates with vignette of ship, separated by a vignette of bunch of fruit (pears, grapes, apricots). Prints in two reds, white, green on grey ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178288

Accession Number: 2000.1439

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Rolled strip of plain green canvas. Probably a remnant of a roller shade.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178289

Accession Number: 2000.144

Wallpaper

Rolled sample. Dense grid of repeating, Persian-like, stylized flowers. Printed in two shades of olive green, maroon and metallic gold.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178290

Accession Number: 2000.146

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Allover design of pink and blue flowers with grey leaves outlined in black, dashed lines. Printed against a field of white and dark grey mottling. Straight match.

Date: 1920-1935

Maker: Niagra Wall Paper Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178291

Accession Number: 2000.147

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Repeating grid of foliated medallions draped with beaded swags and printed against a field of stripes. Printed in two greens, olive green, maroon, beige, ivory, brown and liquid mica. Straight match.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178292

Accession Number: 2000.154

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment. Allover design of entwined, floral vine in white with repeating clusters of berries printed in red and blue. Printed on green paper. Straight match.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178293

Accession Number: 2000.155

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Allover diaper pattern in white, formed by pentagons framing metallic gold stars.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: Carey Brothers (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178294

Accession Number: 2000.159

Wallpaper

Partial roll - cut in half. Yellow, orange and ivory floral sprigs framed by floral medallions in black composed of flowers and morning glories.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178295

Accession Number: 2000.161

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Floral bouquet draped with garlands and printed below a trophy of a torch and arrows tied with ribbon. Printed in green and outlined in metalic gold.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178296

Accession Number: 2000.1624

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Stripes composed of dark grey dashes and entwined with a floral vine with pink blossoms and berries. Printed in grey, tan, green, two pinks and black. Straight match.

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178297

Accession Number: 2000.1625

Wallpaper

Cut sample, rolled. Trellis composed of Greek key meander entwined with a floral vine with magenta blossoms against a field of metallic gold circles. Printed in two shades of olive green, magenta, metallic gold and black.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178298

Accession Number: 2000.1626

Wallpaper

Partial wallpaper roll. Rows of delicate, white scrolled vines with grey and white leaves. Straight match.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178299

Accession Number: 2000.1627

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Foliated, diapered scrolls ornamented with roses and rosebuds. Printed in pink, brown, tan, two greens and metallic green, silver and gold.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178300

Accession Number: 2000.1629

Wallpaper

Rolled sample. Trailing vine composed of overlapping bellflowers or husks sprouting stylized Baroque flowers. Printed in yellow in imitation of damask. Straight match.

Date: 1885-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178301

Accession Number: 2000.1630

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Heavily embossed paper in imitation of jute or burlap painted red and then gilded.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178302

Accession Number: 2000.163

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Grid composed of stylized Art Nouveau lily motifs. Printed in pink, olive and blue on a field of tan, horizontal, dashed lines.

Date: 1895-1905

Maker: Gilbert W.P. Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 178303

Accession Number: 2000.1635

Wallpaper

Partial roll of plain, black paper.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178304

Accession Number: 2000.1636

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Allover design of ferns and grasses. Printed in two light greens, white and metallic gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178305

Accession Number: 2000.1638

Wallpaper

Partial roll of scenery figure paper. Repeating vignettes of a mounted figure feeding his horses before a well, a group of men hunting water fowl, and a woman standing in water speaking to a man on horseback. Printed in two greens, yellow, orange, blue, white, grey and maroon.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178306

Accession Number: 2000.1639

Wallpaper

Partial roll. Allover pattern of repeating clusters of pink and blue blossoms framed by blue leaves. Overprinted with black, undulating lines on a liquid mica gold field. Straight match.

Date: 1925-1935

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178307

Accession Number: 2000.1640