Historic New England

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper border corners from Lexington, Massachusetts. The paper is printed with one large corner per width of the roll. Three complete corners are present. The corners depict pink and cream roses and their foliage with intermingling gray ribbon against a white backgrou...

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291273

Accession Number: 2001.281.983

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of a roll of unused wallpaper border corners from Lexington, Massachusetts. The paper is printed with two corners per roll width. The fragment includes six full corners and two partial corners. The corners depict pink roses and their foliage wrapped to a gold bar by winding gray ribbon. B...

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291274

Accession Number: 2001.281.984

Teacup

One of a set of small pearlware handleless teacups and saucers with pink luster stripe on rim and base. Band of pink luster leaves, flowers and grapes. Set consists of two cups and four saucers.

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 291276

Accession Number: 1958.342.1AB

Teacup

One of a set of small pearlware handleless teacups and saucers with pink luster stripe on rim and base. Band of pink luster leaves, flowers and grapes. Set consists of two cups and four saucers.

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 291277

Accession Number: 1958.342.2AB

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper borders from Lexington, Massachusetts. The fragment is a partial roll of uncut borders, eight borders are printed across the width of the roll. The borders are purple ribbon with green, lace edging. Block-printed in four greens and five shades of purple on wh...

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291278

Accession Number: 2001.281.985

Saucer

One of a set of small pearlware handleless teacups and saucers with pink luster stripe on rim and base. Band of pink luster leaves, flowers and grapes. Set consists of two cups and four saucers.

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 291279

Accession Number: 1958.342.3

Saucer

One of a set of small pearlware handleless teacups and saucers with pink luster stripe on rim and base. Band of pink luster leaves, flowers and grapes. Set consists of two cups and four saucers.

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 291280

Accession Number: 1958.342.4

Teacup and saucer

One of a pair of whiteware cups and saucers with pink luster stripes and pink band with pink luster worm pattern.

Date: 1790-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 291281

Accession Number: 1958.345.1AB

Teacup and saucer

One of a pair of whiteware cups and saucers with pink luster stripes and pink band with pink luster worm pattern.

Date: 1790-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 291282

Accession Number: 1958.345.2AB

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of an uncut roll of wallpaper borders from Lexington, Massachusetts. The paper is printed with three borders per width. The border pattern is swags of pink fabric edged with white ribbon hanging from a thin strip of architectural molding. A spray of pink and gold roses is centered on eve...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 291285

Accession Number: 2001.281.986

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper border corners. The paper is printed with two corners per roll width. The fragment has four complete corners. The corners depict pink roses and their foliage wrapped to a gold bar by winding yellow ribbon. Block-printed in white, two grays, three greens, tan...

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291286

Accession Number: 2001.281.987

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper border corners. The paper is printed with two corners per roll width. The fragment has six complete and two partial corners. The corners are printed with a dense floral border of white daisies, pink morning glories, violet cornflowers and wheat shafts. Roller-...

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291301

Accession Number: 2001.281.988

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper border corners. The paper is printed with two corners per roll width. The fragment is printed with three complete and two partial corners. The corners are T-shaped and depict naturalistic green ivy growing over a gray tree trunk. Roller-printed in white, fou...

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291303

Accession Number: 2001.281.989

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper panel borders. The paper is printed with two straight borders and a border intended to run horizontally along the top of a sidewall. The horizontal border has T-shaped corners at regular intervals where vertical borders could be attached to create panels. The ...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 291311

Accession Number: 2001.281.990

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper border corners. The paper is printed with two corners per roll width. The fragment is printed with four complete corners. The corners are printed in an architectural molding pattern with scrolling acanthus leaf figures, rosettes, ribbon and beads and single r...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291314

Accession Number: 2001.281.991

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper border corners. The paper is printed with two corners per roll width. The fragment is printed with six complete corners. The corners are printed in an architectural molding pattern with scrolling acanthus leaf figures, rosettes, ribbon and beads and single ro...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291318

Accession Number: 2001.281.992

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper borders. The paper is printed with eight borders (two sets of four) per roll width. The border pattern is an undulating stylized vine with leaves and berries. Checkered bands run along the edges of each border. Block-printed in green and dark green on white ...

Date: 1975-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291323

Accession Number: 2001.281.993

Wallpaper Border

Partial roll of uncut wallpaper borders. The paper is printed with three narrow borders consisting of an orange stripe flanked by metallic gold bands on gray ground. One gold band, the one that would be the bottom edge of the border if it was hung, is slightly wider than the other and embossed wit...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), gilding

GUSN: 291330

Accession Number: 2001.281.994

Wallpaper Border

Partial roll of uncut wallpaper borders. The paper is printed with three borders. Each border has a central green flocked band flanked by block-printed bands of beads and dashes in imitation of carved architectural molding. Block-printed in yellow, three browns, and red with gold leaf and green f...

Date: 1860-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), flocking, gilding

GUSN: 291333

Accession Number: 2001.281.995

Wallpaper Border

Partial roll of uncut wallpaper borders. The roll is printed with six borders (two sets of three) per roll width. Each border consists of a band with a geometric pattern imitating architectural molding printed in metallic gold and shades of brown, a wide central band of solid black, and a third ba...

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 291335

Accession Number: 2001.281.996

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

Wallpaper covered document box

Small, wallpaper covered box used to hold family documents. The box is one of a group of twenty-two enclosures created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. The box's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the early nineteenth century diary of her great-grandfather Elisha Perciva...

Date: 1910-1930

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

Material: pasteboard (paper), wallpapers

GUSN: 293764

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.16

Document Folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-two created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. The folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held "Gravestone Transcriptions" dating between 1801 and 1825 from Lee, Massachusetts. The folder ...

Date: 1910-1930

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

Material: pasteboard (paper), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293765

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.17

Document folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-two created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. The folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held documents relating to the "First Church in Hartford, Connecticut" dating between 1670-1903. T...

Date: 1910-1930

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

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

GUSN: 293786

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.18

Document folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-two created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. The folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the 1855 "Autograph Album of Cousin Ruth" of Hartford, Connecticut. The folder is made of tr...

Date: 1910-1930

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

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 293791

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.19

Document folder

Handmade document folder. One of a group of twenty-two enclosures created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California to house family documents. The folder is made of a single piece of folded watercolor paper and decorated with stenciled yellow roses over a stripe of three vertical stripes. On the ...

Date: 1910-1930

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

Material: watercolor paper, stenciling

GUSN: 293794

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.20

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