Historic New England

Historic New England will improve and enhance public access to its nationally significant 6,000-design wallpaper collection. The project will catalogue, digitize, and rehouse 2,000 items in the Waterhouse Archive for Historic Wallpapers, 100 individual photographs, 26 photo albums of domestic interiors that contain approximately 1,000 images, 76 wallpaper sample books, and 20 pieces of wallpaper ephemera. In addition, it will create new high-quality imagery and updated catalogue records for 4,250 previously documented wallpaper samples, expand the quantity of archival material present on the website, and redesign the wallpaper section of the website to improve usability. Together, these activities will increase by 50 percent the number of online records from the wallpaper collection, will make high-resolution zoomable images available for the first time, and will provide more effective search and browse capabilities for visitors.