Historic New England

Wallpaper

Large fragment of unused floral wallpaper from Middleton, Massachusetts. Large scale c-scroll cartouches in gray with colorful naturalistic floral bouquets and traveling vines. Roses and lilacs are featured. Block-printed in two grays, dark maroon, two greens, three blues, three violets, two pin...

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 284714

Accession Number: 2001.281.428

Wallpaper Border

Wallpaper border fragment. Geometric pattern with octogon figures. Roller printed in red, blue and black on brown ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284717

Accession Number: 1985.26.249

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Bouquets of flowers in baskets and floral sprays suspended from bows, surrounded by rococo scrolls. Printed in peaches, pinks, greens, yellows and blues. Pattern is atop a striped ground printed in light beige, dark beige and pale blue.

Date: ca. 1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 284768

Accession Number: 1985.26.162

Commemorative Plate

Commemorative plate of the Jackson House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Lilac, pinecone, and thistle border. Red and white transfer print. Printed from drawings by Samuel Chamberlain.

Date: 1955

Maker: Wedgwood (Manufacturer)

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 284863

Accession Number: 2013.48.1

Calendar Tile

Calendar tile depicting the John Hancock House on one side and a month by month calendar for the year 1900 on the other. Brown and white transfer print. Circular hole drilled into tile for hanging.

Date: 1900

Maker: Wedgwood (Manufacturer) Jones, McDuffee, & Stratton (Retailer)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 284867

Accession Number: 2013.49.1

Calendar Tile

Calendar tile depicting the House of the Seven Gables on one side and a month by month calendar for the year 1929 on the other. Brown and white transfer print. Two circular holes drilled into tile for hanging.

Date: 1929

Maker: Wedgwood (Manufacturer) Jones, McDuffee, & Stratton (Retailer)

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 284868

Accession Number: 2013.49.2

Wedding dress

Ivory silk knee-length dress with dropped waist, asymmetrical skirt finished with 12" lace flounce decorated with scattered paste gems in claw settings. Skirt gathered at proper left hip with corsage of silk orange blossoms and ivory satin ribbon. Underskirt of flecked silk and show fabric set into ...

Date: ca. 1928

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), lace (needlework), rhinestone

GUSN: 284869

Accession Number: 2013.50.1

Florence Quinn (1900-1982) in her wedding dress

Photograph of the bride at her home in Swampscott. Frame is chip carved and gilded, with a cardboard backing.

Date: 1928

Maker: unknown

Material: photographs, frames (furnishings)

GUSN: 284870

Accession Number: 2013.50.2

Framed photograph of Florence Quinn and her sister, Lena Quinn Estes. Photograph taken by Lynn photographer Joseph Henry Gough, United States, 1928

Photograph of Florence Quinn and her sister Lena Quinn Estes, who was her matron of honor. The two are posed in their family home. The frame is carved wood and painted green. The mat is deckle-edged, with an arched opening and embossed with the photographer's name, Joseph Henry Gough. Paper backing....

Date: 1928

Maker: Gough, Joseph Henry (Photographer)

Material: photographs, frames (furnishings)

GUSN: 284871

Accession Number: 2013.50.3

Framed photograph of Lena Quinn and Alice Quinn as young girls. Photographer unknown, United States, 1895-1910

Framed photograph of two young girls (sisters of Florence Quinn) with blonde hair. Hand-tinted. Frame is gilded, pressed metal (not original), with an embossed paper back and collapsible paper triangle stand. Unsigned on front.

Date: ca. 1905

Maker: unknown

Material: photographs, frames (furnishings)

GUSN: 284872

Accession Number: 2013.50.4

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern composed of lacy drapery and swags tied with ribbons intertwined with sprigs. Printed in three reds, two pinks, white, two greens, blue, and gray on a gray ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer) Caillard, Robert (Designer)

GUSN: 284876

Accession Number: 2000.198

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern composed of meandering vines with flowers and pomegranates. Printed in blue, yellow, red, and brown on a light yellow ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer)

GUSN: 284877

Accession Number: 2000.199

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern composed of a vase filled with flowers, arabesques, garlands, and tendrils. Printed in two blues, pink, maroon, and tan on a dark gray ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer) Caillard, Robert (Designer)

GUSN: 284892

Accession Number: 2000.220

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern is composed of a vignette of a man, woman, and child with a dog alternating with a shepard's crook and basket of flowers. The background is leaf-striped and diapered. Printed in two browns, beige, and white on a yellow ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer)

GUSN: 284893

Accession Number: 2000.200

Wallpaper

One unused roll and one sample of wallpaper. Pattern composed of a vignette of three putti hunting ducks with bows and arrows alternating with a vignette of a dog chasing ducks from the brush. Printed in two pinks, white, and brown on a light blue ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer) Caillard, Robert (Designer)

GUSN: 284906

Accession Number: 2000.201AB

Wallpaper

Two unused rolls of wallpaper. Pattern composed of meandering stylized leaves and roses. Printed in rust, ochre, orange, green, gray, taupe, and brown on a beige ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer) Caillard, Robert (Designer) McClelland, Nancy (Retailer)

GUSN: 284936

Accession Number: 2000.202AB

Wallpaper

Three samples and one roll of unused wallpaper. Pattern composed of meandering rose vines. Printed in red, pink, lavender, blue, white, brown, beige, and three greens on a turquoise ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer) Caillard, Robert (Designer)

GUSN: 284938

Accession Number: 2000.203A-D

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern composed of bouquets of roses in vases, set under a trellis, topped by an urn and garland. Printed in two blues, orange, red, white, yellow, and gray on a tan ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer) Caillard, Robert (Designer)

GUSN: 284994

Accession Number: 2000.204

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Auburn, New Hampshire. Moiré and floral stripe. Block-printed in gray, red and green on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1850-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285048

Accession Number: 2001.281.436

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Pattern composed of leaves, hydrangeas, poppies, and scrolled foliage. Printed in two blues, two greens, orange, two browns, tans, gold, and white on a cream ground.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer) Katzenbach and Warren (Retailer)

GUSN: 285074

Accession Number: 2000.205

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern composed of a vignette of two birds on a nest under a canopy, surrounded by scrolled foliage and garland alternating with a bouquet of flowers in a kylix-shaped vase. The background is a dotted diaper pattern. Printed in orange, sienna, pink, two greens, brown, and ...

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer)

GUSN: 285118

Accession Number: 2000.206

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern composed of scrolled foliage and scrolled floral sprigs. Printed in red on a beige ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer) Caillard, Robert (Designer)

GUSN: 285122

Accession Number: 2000.207

Wallpaper

Unused sample of wallpaper. Pattern composed of three-leafed clover sprigs. Printed in three greens and white on a gray ground. Straight repeat.

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer) Roach & Craven, Inc. (Retailer) Caillard, Robert (Designer)

GUSN: 285127

Accession Number: 2000.208

Wallpaper

Fragment of Renaissance Revival style wallpaper from Middleton, Massachusetts. Typical of Renaissance Revival stripe patterned papers, this paper has central medallion-like elements placed between two stripes. This particular pattern incorporates roses and vertically trailing ribbon. Block-printe...

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285276

Accession Number: 2001.281.429

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Gothic Revival style wallpaper with naturalistic branches interlaced to form a symmetrical pattern over three quarters of the width of the design. The remanding width is a vertical column-like stripe with carved scroll elements and shading t...

Date: 1850-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285283

Accession Number: 2001.281.430

Walllpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Green and black stripe elements and floral sprigs on a honeycomb background. Block-printed in green and black on white polished ground.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285323

Accession Number: 2001.281.431

Wallpaper

Three wallpaper fragments with Reniassance Revival style stripe and banch pattern from Middleton, Massachusetts. Stripe figures with fretwork, scrolls and lozenge-shaped medallions containing floral sprigs. Stripes alternate with leafy climbing branches. Block-printed in pale blue, tan, green and...

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285350

Accession Number: 2001.281.432A-C

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Naturalistic floral bouquets with scrolling vines and draping ribbon. Block-printed in white, black, yellow, red, gray, blue-green, two blues, three pinks, and four greens on polished white ground.

Date: 1845-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285363

Accession Number: 2001.281.433

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Floral stripe pattern. Naturalistic rose sprigs and sprays with background vines and leaves in shadowy grays and greens. Pale yellow and gray stripes with visible verticle brush strokes applied over polished white ground. Block-printed in...

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285384

Accession Number: 2001.281.434

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Allover stylized floral pattern. Block-printed in green and gray-green on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285388

Accession Number: 2001.281.435

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Vertical stripes of stylized flowers with wispy, curling stems alternate with geometrical stripes with trailing vine and floral medallion figures over horizontal banding. Roller-printed in pale yellow, orange, blue, gray, black and two browns...

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 285470

Accession Number: 2001.281.437

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Stylized Neo-cassical style stripe pattern. Primary stripe features an ogee pattern formed by stylized Neo-classical figures, including anthemion and lotus buds, on horizontal banding. Primary stripe is flanked by narrow stripes with Greek ...

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 285472

Accession Number: 2001.281.438

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of uncut wallpaper border from Middleton, Massachusetts. Flocked floral pattern with floral molding stripe. Block-printed in three browns, two greens, metallic copper, metallic blue with brown flocking on ochre ground. Paper is embossed with ribbed pattern (vertical in relation to patter...

Date: 1890-1990

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process), flocking, embossed wall coverings, metallic pigment

GUSN: 285474

Accession Number: 2001.281.439

Wallpaper

Three unused fragments of Renaissance Revival style wallpaper from the Eliab Deane House in Middleboro, Maine. Wide stripes composed of Renaissance Revival elements including strapwork, scrolls, floral festoons, hanging beads, and medallions. The design of the stripes takes after ferronerie (Fren...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285485

Accession Number: 2001.281.440.1A-C

Daybook Cover

Wallpaper fragment used as a day book cover by Mr. William Cottle of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Landscape figure pattern wallpaper fragment depicting a dog disrupting the nest of two fowl. The figure is block-printed in three pinks, maroon and white on pink ground. Diamond patterned geometric stri...

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: wove paper, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285491

Accession Number: 2001.281.441

Wallpaper

Fragment of unused wallpaper from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Anglo-Japanese style pattern featuring stylized floral figures in boxes of varying sizes. Three primary figures: a yellow flowering plant on a blue background; a red flowering plant with drooping blooms on a dark olive background; and a f...

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 285502

Accession Number: 2001.281.442

Wallpaper

Unused floral wallpaper fragment from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Allover floral sprig pattern of daisies, ferns, clover and twigs. Roller-printed in white, pink, pale yellow, ochre, red, maroon and olive on cream ground with liquid mica wash. Marked "Wm H. Mairs Co. / 2 Rolls / 1831" in selvedge.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), mica (white pigment)

GUSN: 285505

Accession Number: 2001.281.443

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Floral medallion and stripe pattern. Pink and green floral medallion figures over varied black stripes on green ground. Roller-printed in metallic gold and silver, light green, two pinks, red and black on green ground. Marked "3 / 1718 / D / Jane...

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 285510

Accession Number: 2001.281.444.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Nantucket, Massachusetts. A variety of stylized flowers grow from the same woody trailing branches. Small birds perch and fly among the branches. Roller-printed in two grays, brown, two blues and black on a white ground with gray dots. Affixed back-to-back to medallion a...

Date: 1910-1915

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 285514

Accession Number: 2001.281.444.2

Wallpaper

Two fragments of diamond patterned wallpaper from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Black lines flanked by dots intersect to form a diamond pattern. Black and white rosettes alternate with white feathery sprig figures printed where lines intersect. Block-printed in black and white on ungrounded blue pape...

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: wove paper, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285523

Accession Number: 2001.281.318.2AB

Wallpaper

Two fragments of wallpaper from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Lozenge and rosette stripe pattern. Pink and red oval lozenge figures alternate with round rosettes to form vertical stripes. A floral pattern in ochre, now barely visible, is printed between the stripes. Block-printed in pink, red and oc...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: wove paper, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285524

Accession Number: 2001.281.318.3AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Geometric pattern of overlapping fans with frothy edges. Block-printed in blue, white and black on olive ground. Partial sheet of handmade, wove paper. Layer four of four from the same location. Reproduced by Waterhouse Wallhangings as "Robbins ...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: wove paper, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285525

Accession Number: 2001.281.318.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the Trefrey House in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Diamond shaped coffer pattern with blue centers and bead molding. Diamonds are given a three-dimensional appearance with the use of light and shadow. Roller-printed in tan, brown, blue and off-white on gray ground.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 285535

Accession Number: 2001.281.445

Wallpaper

Three fragments of stairhall wallpaper from Newburyport, Massachusetts. Octagon and square coffer pattern block-printed in blue on rainbow ground. The octagons and squares frame foliate medallion figures block-printed in alternating rows of orange and brown. The rainbow ground is yellow, blue and...

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: wove paper, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 285556

Accession Number: 2001.281.446A-C

Wallpaper

Two wallpaper fragments from the General Sylvanus Thayer birthplace in Braintree, Massachusetts. Stripe and vine pattern in which a leafy vine, possibly morning glory, grows up a gray pole or stripe. Small twig figures form a background pattern. Block-printed in red, green and gray on orange grou...

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: wove paper, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 283972

Accession Number: 2001.281.337AB

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment from Barre, Massachusetts. Stylized sprig or branch pattern roller-printed in metallic gold on green ground. Selvedge is marked "George J.Hunken Co Inc."

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: George J. Hunken Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 283991

Accession Number: 2001.281.338

Wallpaper Border

Five fragments of unused floral wallpaper border from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Border with flowers and leaves spilling over trellis design along lower edge. Thinner upper edge design of stripes and dots. Pale yellow background covers much of the olive green ground. Roller-printed in orange, red...

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association (1880-1887) (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283992

Accession Number: 2001.281.339A-E

Wallpaper Border

Unused wallpaper border fragment from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Border with stylized architectural figures. Primary figure, resembling molding with floral elements, is block-printed in yellow and brown on a peach ground. The dark green stripe that makes up the background of the border appears to h...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283993

Accession Number: 2001.281.340

Wallpaper Border

Partial roll of unused wallpaper border from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pattern of alternating stylized foliate figures and vine. Roller-printed in two yellows, black, white and orange on brown ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 283994

Accession Number: 2001.281.341

Window Shade

Four printed paper window shade fragments from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fragments (A) and (B) depict flowers and a fish aquarium on a stand. Fragments (C) and (D) depict a striped curtain. Block-printed in orange, red, two greens, pink, violet, white, two browns and tan on green ground. Back of...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 284012

Accession Number: 2001.281.342A-D

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