Historic New England

Dustpan and Implement

A silver dustpan with a wooden board decorated with flowers and ladybugs

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal by composition or origin, wood and wood products, paint (coating), wire

GUSN: 336017

Accession Number: 2019.17.32

Bell

Wall-mounted dollhouse calling bell made of red painted metal with a silver bell and a crank on the side.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal by composition or origin, paint (coating)

GUSN: 336018

Accession Number: 2019.17.33

Scale

Scale or balance with a silver bowl and dial on a gray metal base.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal by composition or origin

GUSN: 336019

Accession Number: 2019.17.34

Pair of Chairs

Pair of wood dollhouse chairs with high, flat backs and turned legs.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products

GUSN: 336020

Accession Number: 2019.17.35.1-.2

Dollhouse Sideboard

Wooden dollhouse sideboard with a single drawer and two knobs.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, metal by composition or origin

GUSN: 336021

Accession Number: 2019.17.36

Table with tablecloth

Rectangular wooden kitchen table (A) covered by a plaid red and white tablecloth (B).

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, textiles

GUSN: 336023

Accession Number: 2019.17.38AB

Baby carriage

Small, blue metal baby carriage with four wheels.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal by composition or origin, paint (coating)

GUSN: 336024

Accession Number: 2019.17.39

Stool

Small wooden toy stool with three feet.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products

GUSN: 336025

Accession Number: 2019.17.40

Shovel and bucket

A gold colored bucket with thin handle (A) and a black shovel with a wooden handle (B)

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal by composition or origin, wood and wood products

GUSN: 336026

Accession Number: 2019.17.41AB

A little girl doll with blonde, short hair (A). The doll's face is painted with red lips, and black eyes and eyebrows.The doll wears a floral patterned dress with red shoes. The doll sits in a highchair (B) made of brown painted metal with a rubber band holding in the doll.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal by composition or origin, paint (coating), cotton (textile), ceramic (material)

GUSN: 336027

Accession Number: 2019.17.42AB

Chair

Green wooden chair with a high back decorated with three flowers.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, paint (coating)

GUSN: 336028

Accession Number: 2019.17.43

Stove

Small gray dollhouse stove with four hot plates, an oven, tray, and chimney.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal by composition or origin

GUSN: 336029

Accession Number: 2019.17.44

Lamp

Cylinder shaped lamp with a red filter inside, attached with a golden hook and red ribbon.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal by composition or origin, plastic by composition or origin, ribbon (material)

GUSN: 336030

Accession Number: 2019.17.45

Rug

Circular braided dollhouse rug with five circles in varying colors: orange, green, light brown, or beige.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: textile materials

GUSN: 336031

Accession Number: 2019.17.46

Chest of drawers

A blue wooden chest with three drawers, each decorated with red or white flowers. Flowers also decorate the sides and the top of the chest.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, paint (coating), metal by composition or origin

GUSN: 336032

Accession Number: 2019.17.47

Kitchen Implements

Four cooking implements: Pot (A), two frying pans (B,C), and a tray (D)

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: metal by composition or origin

GUSN: 336033

Accession Number: 2019.17.48A-D

Painting, "The Wild Ammonoosuc"

Landscape painting framed in a simple gilt wooden frame without ornamentation. Landscape depicts a river with six cows wading into the shallows from a worn path up to a pasture. Trees on the right shade the river in the foreground. Mountains in the distance beneath a blue sky and few clouds.

Date: undated

Maker: Lees, Andrew, 1844-1937 (Painter)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 336034

Accession Number: 2019.23.1

Painting, "Ipswich Marsh"

Small landscape painting depicting autumnal, mountainous scene with a marsh in the lower right quarter.

Date: c. 1890

Maker: Peirce, Herman Winthrop, 1850-1935 (Painter)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 336047

Accession Number: 2019.23.14

Painting, "Peabody-Williams House"

Painting depicting the Peabody-Williams House in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts.

Date: c. 1997

Maker: Korzenik, Diana (Painter)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 336048

Accession Number: 2019.23.15

Dresser

A black dresser with a base composed of three drawers above two cupboard doors. The upper part is composed of two more drawers and a single cabinet door in the center.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, paint (coating)

GUSN: 336056

Accession Number: 2019.17.49

Sofa

Settee with five ball-turned legs and two matching ball turned armrests. The three-sectioned back is upholstered with brighter red fabric than the seat.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, textiles

GUSN: 336057

Accession Number: 2019.17.50

Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper manufactured by the Thomas Strahan Company, Chelsea, Massachusetts titled "The Quincy." All-over white floral pattern of large fern-like fans surrounded by flowers and scrolling foliate branches. The pattern is block-printed in white on an irisé ground of blue...

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: Thomas Strahan & Co. (Manufacturer)

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

GUSN: 293416

Accession Number: 2001.281.1183

Wall shelf

White marble wall shelf with serpentine edge (a) supported by two gold-painted cast iron brackets (b,c) with open design of scrolls and a bird.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: marble (rock), cast iron, paint (coating)

GUSN: 293431

Accession Number: 1958.275ABC

Nursery Rhyme Wallpaper

Partial roll of sanitary wallpaper depicting nursery rhymes including "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe." Engraved roller-print with oil colors on light tan ground.

Date: 1890-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), engravings (prints)

GUSN: 293434

Accession Number: 2001.281.1184

Wall shelf

White-painted wood wall shelf with serpentine edge (a) supported by two cast iron wall brackets (b, c) with open design of two birds and scrolls.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), cast iron, paint (coating)

GUSN: 293437

Accession Number: 1958.277ABC

Plant holder

Plant holder composed of a wrought iron strap formed into scrolls with hoop for holdiing flowerpot.

Date: 189001950

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought iron (iron alloy)

GUSN: 293441

Accession Number: 1958.279

Wallpaper

Partial roll of scenery figure wallpaper. Pastoral scene of farm animals and peasants under a blue sky with bluff and houses in the distance. The central figures are a boy in a bright blue coat, a steer, a goat, and a lamb. Roller-printed in white, black, orange, yellow, salmon, grays, greens, brow...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293445

Accession Number: 2001.281.1185

Plant holder

One of a pair of wrought iron plant holders made of square stock and bent to form a wave. Designed for hanging on a wall, the bracket has wrought iron hoops to hold two flowerpots.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought iron (iron alloy)

GUSN: 293446

Accession Number: 1958.283.1

Plant holder

One of a pair of wrought iron plant holders made of square stock and bent to form a wave. Designed for hanging on a wall, the bracket has wrought iron hoops to hold three flowerports.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought iron (iron alloy)

GUSN: 293451

Accession Number: 1958.283.2

Wallpaper

Partial roll of Rococo Revival wallpaper from the Clapp House, Dorchester, Massachusetts. Floral medallion pattern roller-printed in pink, red, green, blue and purple with scrolls and beads in tan and background stripes in gray on white satin ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293453

Accession Number: 2001.281.1186

Doorstop

Yellow, blue and green-painted cast iron door stop in the form of an urn filled with flowers and leaves.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: cast iron, paint (coating)

GUSN: 293454

Accession Number: 1958.281

Flowerpot

One of a set of five polychrome majolica plant pots with design of potted flowers and incised lines and stars.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293457

Accession Number: 1958.284.1

Flowerpot

One of a set of five polychrome majolica plant pots with design of potted flowers and incised lines and stars.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293459

Accession Number: 1958.284.2

Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper from Sandwich, Massachusetts. All-over foliate pattern with floral sprigs . Block-printed in green and white on ungrounded, blue paper.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293460

Accession Number: 2001.281.1187

Flowerpot

One of a set of five polychrome majolica plant pots with design of potted flowers and incised lines and stars.

Date: 1850-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293462

Accession Number: 1958.284.3

Flowerpot

One of a set of five polychrome majolica plant pots with design of potted flowers and incised lines and stars.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293464

Accession Number: 1958.284.4

Flowerpot

One of a set of five polychrome majolica plant pots with design of potted flowers and incised lines and stars.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293466

Accession Number: 1958.284.5

Wallpaper

Partial roll of Scenic Figure wallpaper with three repeating pastoral vignettes. Vignettes are 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. Roller-printed in two greens, yellow, orange, blue, w...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293467

Accession Number: 2001.281.1188

Wall flowerpot

One of a pair of majolica plant pots molded in the shape of a basket. Shaped with a flat side to hang against wall. Buff base with white glaze on basket and yellow on basket rim.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293469

Accession Number: 1958.280.1

Wallpaper

Partial roll of Renaissance Revival floral stripe wallpaper from the Clapp House, Dorchester, Massachusetts. Small climbing vines of multi-colored flowers grows up a gray vertical stripe that runs along the left side of roll. The rest of the roll is printed with gray strapwork and scrolls forming ...

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 293474

Accession Number: 2001.281.1189

Wall flowerpot

One of a pair of majolica plant pots molded in the shape of a basket. Shaped with a flat side to hang against wall. Buff base with white glaze on basket and yellow on basket rim.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 293477

Accession Number: 1958.280.2

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of wallpaper with Persian or Aesthetic-style floral pattern. Red flowers and berries on meandering olive stems with metallic gold and black accents. Roller-printed in red, orange, light brown, metallic gold and black on light olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293479

Accession Number: 2001.281.1190

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of floral flocked wallpaper. Groupings of stylized flowers in maroon flocking are joined to each other by draping foliate vines. The flocking is block-printed over ochre stripes on polished cream ground.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 293480

Accession Number: 2001.281.1191

Wallpaper

Partial roll of striped floral wallpaper. Pattern of gray stripes on polished white ground. The primary stripe is printed with sprigs of grasses and blue and violet flowers. Roller-printed in gray, two greens, two blues, ochre, brown, and two violets on a polished white ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293483

Accession Number: 2001.281.1192

Document Folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. It is labeled "Percival - Boston Transcripts 1921." The folder is made from a piece of wallpaper roller-printed with a floral diamond pattern in pink over a...

Date: 1921-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), wallpapers

GUSN: 293715

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.10

Document Folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the school records of her great, great aunt Lydia Percival Freeman (1773-1830). The folder i...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), wallpapers

GUSN: 293727

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.11

Document Folder

Small handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the diary of her great aunt Abby Percival from 1831-1833. The folder is made form a pi...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), cardboard, wallpapers

GUSN: 293728

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.12

Document folder

Small handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the 1832-1834 "Farming Memoranda" of her great-grandfather Elisha Percival, Jr. (1781-...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker) Possibly Silver Studio (Manufacturer)

Material: cardboard, wallpapers

GUSN: 293729

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.13

Document Folder

Small handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the 1860 diary of her great-aunt Abby Percival of Edgington, Illinois. The folder is m...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker) Morris, William (Designer) William Morris & Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), wallpaper brushes

GUSN: 293758

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.14

Document Folder

Small, wallpaper covered folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-two created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held "Lineage Data" from geneologist T. M. Strobridge. The folder, commercially m...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss, 1868-1945 (Maker)

Material: pasteboard (paper), wallpapers, metal

GUSN: 293763

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.15

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