Historic New England

For kith and kin :the folk art collection at the Art Institute of Chicago /Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski.

120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 25 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest collections of American folk art. The detailed entries in this text serve as an introduction to an array of masterworks, from New England portraits to New Mexican ceramics and Oh...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Barter, Judith A., 1951- Obniski, Monica. Art Institute of Chicago.

GUSN: 303589

Call Number: Coll. NK805.A78 2012

The Boston Floating Hospital :how a Boston harbor barge changed the course of pediatric medicine : the first one hundred years /Lucie Prinz ; with Jacoba Van Schaik.

177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Prinz, Lucie, 1931- Van Schaik, Jacoba, author.

GUSN: 303590

Call Number: Stacks RJ28.B7 P75 2014

The Sol e Mar tragedy off Martha's Vineyard /Captain W. Russell Webster (U.S. Coast Guard, Ret.) & Elizabeth B. Webster ; foreword by Rear Admiral George Naccara, USCG (Ret.).

127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "On March 22, 1990, local fishermen Hokey Hokanson and his teenage son, Billy, set sail for Cape Cod in the Sol e Mar. When disaster struck three days later, Billy transmitted a brief, heavily garbled radio distress call. A hoax call immediately followed Billy's cr...

Creators: Webster, W. Russell. Webster, Elizabeth B.

GUSN: 303591

Call Number: Stacks G530.S725 W43 2014

1775 :a good year for revolution /Kevin Phillips.

xxvi, 628 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, What if the year that has long been commemorated as America's defining moment was in fact, misleading? In this book the author, a historian punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. 1775 was th...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Phillips, Kevin, 1940-

GUSN: 303592

Call Number: Stacks E231.P55 2012

The mortal sea :fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail /W. Jeffrey Bolster.

xi, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In this account of this interdependency, the author, a historian and professi...

Date: 2012.

Creators: Bolster, W. Jeffrey.

GUSN: 303593

Call Number: 85M Stacks SH213.5.B65 2012

When America first met China :an exotic history of tea, drugs, and money in the Age of Sail /Eric Jay Dolin.

xviii, 394 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm, Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century se...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Dolin, Eric Jay.

GUSN: 303594

Call Number: Stacks HF3128.D65 2012

American sewn rugs :their history with exceptional examples /Jan Whitlock ; with Tracy Jamar.

113 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm

Creators: Whitlock, Jan. Jamar, Tracy.

GUSN: 303595

Call Number: Coll. NK2812.W45 2012

Poetry to the earth :the arts & crafts movement in Deerfield /Suzanne L. Flynt ; foreword by Wendy Kaplan.

ix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Creators: Flynt, Suzanne L., author. Kaplan, Wendy, writer of supplementary textual content.

GUSN: 303596

Call Number: Coll. NK1411.D44 F59 2012 c.1 (and 1 more)

Early American silver in the Metropolitan Museum of Art /Beth Carver Wees, with Medill Higgins Harvey.

xi, 328 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c2013.

Creators: Wees, Beth Carver. Harvey, Medill Higgins. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 303597

Call Number: Coll. NK7112.M48 2013

Barns of Connecticut /Markham Starr.

156 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm., "The book discusses the importance of barns, past and present, to agriculture across our state and offers a lovely introduction to the architectural and functional roles these structures played in early Connecticut. (...) From the earliest colonial structur...

Creators: Starr, Markham.

GUSN: 303598

Call Number: Stacks NA8230.S73 2013

Architecture & academe :college buildings in New England before 1860 /Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.

xxi, 217 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Tolles, Bryant Franklin, 1939-

GUSN: 303599

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA6603.T65 2011

A picture history of New Bedford /edited by Joseph D. Thomas, Alfred H. Saulniers, Natalie A. White, Marsha L. McCabe, Jay Avila.

volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm

Creators: Thomas, Joseph D., editor.

GUSN: 303600

Call Number: Stacks F74.N5 P53 2013 v.1

Capricious fancy :draping and curtaining the historic interior, 1800-1930 /Gail Caskey Winkler ; foreword by Roger W. Moss.

xliii, 292 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Date: 2013.

Creators: Winkler, Gail Caskey.

GUSN: 303601

Call Number: Coll. NK3212.W56 2013

Art of Katahdin :the mountain, the range, the region /David Little ; edited by Carl Little.

199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 x 30 cm

Creators: Little, David, 1951- Little, Carl.

GUSN: 303602

Call Number: Stacks N8214.5.U6 L58 2013 (and 1 more)

Mount Auburn Cemetery :beauty on the edge of eternity /photographs by Richard Cheek ; foreword by David P. Barnett, introduction by William C. Clendaniel, text by Janet Heywood.

161 p. : chiefly col ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: c2012.

Creators: Cheek, Richard. Heywood, Janet Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery

GUSN: 303603

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.61.M8 F74 2012

THREE CENTURIES IN A CAPE COD VILLAGE :the Story of Chatham /Chatham Historical Society, Chatham, Massachusetts ; Dana Eldridge, Mary Ann Gray, Lynn C. Van Dine, Spencer Grey, Debra Lawless, Tim Weller, Eric Hartell.

184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Creators: Eldridge, Dana. Chatham Historical Society (Chatham, Mass.)

GUSN: 303604

Call Number: Stacks F74.C43 T48 2012

At Home in New England :Royal Barry Wills Architects 1925 to Present /Richard Wills with Keith Orlesky.

191 pages : colored illustrations

Creators: Wills, Richard, 1926-

GUSN: 303721

Call Number: Rare NA737.R69 A4 2014 (and 1 more)

Our own snug fireside :images of the New England home, 1760-1860 /Jane C. Nylander. [paperback]

xiv, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Nylander, Jane C., 1938-

GUSN: 304346

Call Number: Stacks F8.N95 1994

The logbooks :Connecticut's slave ships and human memory /Anne Farrow.

xiv, 187 pages ; 24 cm.

Creators: Farrow, Anne, author.

GUSN: 304347

Call Number: Stacks E445.C7 F37 2014 C. 1 (and 1 more)

A crisis of community :the trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848 /Mary Babson Fuhrer.

xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "Mary White, a shopkeeper's wife from rural Boylston, Massachusetts, kept a diary, and woven into its quotidian details of small-town farm life is a remarkable tale of conflict and transformation. Sustained by its Puritan heritage, gentry leadership, and creed...

Creators: Fuhrer, Mary Babson.

GUSN: 304348

Call Number: Stacks F74.B56 F85 2014 (and 1 more)

Attack on Orleans :the World War I submarine raid on Cape Cod /Jake Klim.

126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Klim, Jake.

GUSN: 304349

Call Number: Stacks D570.85.M41 O745 2014

Second nature :an environmental history of New England /Richard W. Judd.

xi, 327 pages ; 23 cm.

Creators: Judd, Richard William.

GUSN: 304350

Call Number: Stacks GF504.N45 J84 2014 c.1 (and 1 more)

Drawing toward home :designs for domestic architecture from historic New England /James F. O'Gorman, editor ; with Lorna Condon ... [et al.].

240 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 29 cm.

Date: 2010.

Creators: O'Gorman, James F. Condon, Lorna.

GUSN: 304514

Call Number: Ref. NA2706.U6 D69 2010 (and 1 more)

Instantaneous marine studies /taken by David Mason Little.

[20] leaves, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm

Date: 1883.

Creators: Little, David Mason.

GUSN: 305661

Call Number: Rare VM307.L7 1883

The Colonial Theatre :a Pittsfield resurrection /photographs by Nicholas Whitman ; with contributing essays by David Fleming [et al.].

137 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), port. ; 24 x 29 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Whitman, Nicholas, 1954- Fleming, David W., 1950-

GUSN: 305662

Call Number: Stacks NA6835.P58 C65 2008

Textiles :fiber to fabric /[by M. D. Potter and B. P. Corbman].

508 p. ; 8 vo.

Date: 1967.

Creators: Potter, M. David. Corbman, Bernard P.

GUSN: 305663

Call Number: Stacks TS1446.P6 1967

Around Swanzey :Swanzey, Ashuelot, Winchester, Richmond, Fitzwilliam, and Hinsdale /Pamela Apkarian-Russell.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm., "Nestled against the Massachusetts and Vermont borders are six New Hampshire communities largely unconnected with the rest of their home state. The picturesque bedroom and summer vacation communities of Swanzey, Ashuelot, Winchester, Richmond, Fitzwil...

Date: 1996.

Creators: Apkarian-Russell, Pamela.

GUSN: 305664

Call Number: Stacks F44.S97 A65 1996

Selling the dwelling :the books that built America's houses, 1775-2000.

286 p. : col. ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.

Date: 2013.

Creators: Cheek, Richard. Sedykh, Julia, book designer. Grolier Club.

GUSN: 288291

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7105.C54 2013

Suckanesset :wherein may be read a history of Falmouth, Massachusetts /by Theodate Geoffrey.

188 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1992, c1930.

Creators: Geoffrey, Theodate, 1893-

GUSN: 288329

Call Number: Stacks F74 F3 1992

Wildflowers of the Cape Cod Canal :an annotated checklist /Mario DiGregorio, Jeff Wallner.

ix, 97 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.

Date: 1985.

Creators: DiGregorio, Mario. Wallner, Jeff. Bourne Historic Commission (Bourne, Mass.)

GUSN: 288671

Call Number: Stacks QK166.D54 1985

Sou'west and by west of Cape Cod :the classic evocation of New England shore, sea, and islands--from Point Judith to the head of Buzzards Bay /by Llewellyn Howland ; introduction by John Rousmaniere ; illustrations by Lois Darling.

191 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: c1987.

Creators: Howland, Llewellyn.

GUSN: 288672

Call Number: Stacks F72.B9 H6 1987

Anti-friction bearing design for movable span bridges.

63 p. illus. 26 x 37 cm.

Date: [1950]

Creators: Torrington Company. Bantam Bearings Division.

GUSN: 288673

Call Number: Stacks TG420.T6

The building of the Cape Cod Canal, 1627-1914.

xv, 131 p. illus., ports., fold. col. map. 24 cm.

Date: 1961.

Creators: Reid, William James.

GUSN: 288674

Call Number: 85M Stacks HE396.C3 R4 1961

History of Bourne from 1622 to 1937 /by Betsey D. Keene.

221, xiv p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Keene, Betsey D.

GUSN: 288675

Call Number: Stacks F74.B52 K4 1975

The Cape Cod Canal :breaking through the bared and bended arm /J. North Conway.

157 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Conway, J. North (Jack North)

GUSN: 288676

Call Number: 85M Stacks HE396.C3 C66 2008

Cassier's magazine.Vol. 39,November, 1910-April, 1911.

1 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1911.

GUSN: 288677

Call Number: Stacks TA1.C34 v.39

Report of the Joint Committee of 1860 upon the proposed canal to unite Barnstable and Buzzard's bays :under the resolve of April 4, 1860, and subsequent resolves and votes of the legislature.

165 p. : ill., folded charts, maps ; 23 cm.

Date: 1864.

Creators: Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Ship Canal to Connect Barnstable Bay and Buzzard's Bay.

GUSN: 288678

Call Number: Stacks TC625.C2 A5 1864 c.1 (and 1 more)

The pageant of Cape Cod /William Chauncy Langdon, master of the pageant. On the banks of the Cape Cod canal near the village of Bourne, Massachusetts, August 15, 17, 18, 19, 1914.

2 p. leaves, 7-66 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1916]

Creators: Langdon, William Chauncy, 1871-1947.

GUSN: 288679

Call Number: Stacks F72.C3 L3 1916

The Cape Cod Canal /by Robert H. Farson.

xiv, 177 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1977.

Creators: Farson, Robert H., 1923-

GUSN: 288680

Call Number: 85M Stacks HE396.C3 F37 1977

Shipwrecks around Cape Cod;a collection of photographs and data covering the period from the late 1800s to 1973 on Cape Cod,by William P. Quinn. Pen and ink drawings by Diana Guarino.

239 p. illus. 32 cm.

Date: 1973]

Creators: Quinn, William P.

GUSN: 288681

Call Number: Stacks VK1272.C36 Q56

Cape Cod collection :unit #1, Cape Cod Canal /Leonard W. Ferguson ; assisted by Edith P. Ferguson and staff members, Salt Lake City Public Library, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.

xiii, 93 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. + index.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Ferguson, Leonard W. Ferguson, Edith P. Salt Lake City Public Library. University of Utah. Libraries.

GUSN: 288682

Call Number: Stacks HE396.C3 C36 1982 v.1 (and 1 more)

Artful adornments :jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston /Yvonne J. Markowitz.

204 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 2011.

Creators: Markowitz, Yvonne J. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 288822

Call Number: Coll. NK7102.B67 M37 2011

The most famous man in America :the biography of Henry Ward Beecher /Debby Applegate.

ix, 529 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm., Presents the life of the nineteenth century orator, noted for his support of the abolition of slavery and the suffrage of women, as well as his friendships with some of the century's most famous writers such as Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, and Walt W...

Date: c2006.

Creators: Applegate, Debby.

GUSN: 288823

Call Number: Stacks BX7260.B3 A67 2006

Balls! /by Michael J. Rosen ; illustrations by John Margeson.

72 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm., Learn about the balls used in basketball, soccer, football, tennis, handball, golf, volleyball, and ping pong: how they're made, why they look the way they do, some amazing facts about their history ... and a bit about the games that use them, too.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Rosen, Michael J., 1954- Margeson, John, ill.

GUSN: 288824

Call Number: Stacks GV749.B34 R67 2006

Low art tile :John Gardner Low & the artists of Boston's gilded age /by Richard Pennington.

240 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: 2010.

Creators: Pennington, Richard. J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm)

GUSN: 288825

Call Number: Coll. NK4670.7.U53 L68 2010

The American department store transformed, 1920-1960 /Richard Longstreth.

xi, 323 p. : ill. (some col.), map, plans ; 29 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Longstreth, Richard W.

GUSN: 288826

Call Number: 85M Stacks HF5465.U5 L66 2010

Glorious splendor :the 18th-century wallpapers in the Jeremiah Lee Mansion in Marblehead, Massachusetts /by Judy Anderson.

96 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 2011.

Creators: Anderson, Judy, 1957-

GUSN: 288827

Call Number: Stacks NK3443.A53 2011

Practicing medicine in a black regiment :the Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts /edited by Richard M. Reid.

x, 282 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm., "In early 1863, in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Massachusetts began recruiting black soldiers to serve in the Civil War. Burt Green Wilder, a Boston-born, Harvard educated doctor-in-training, was among the first white...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925. Reid, Richard M., 1943-

GUSN: 288828

Call Number: Stacks E513.5 55th.W55 2010

Making war and minting Christians :masculinity, religion, and colonialism in early New England /R. Todd Romero.

xiii, 255 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Creators: Romero, R. Todd, 1968-

GUSN: 288829

Call Number: Stacks F7.R68 2011

Post roads & iron horses :transportation in Connecticut from colonial times to the age of steam /Richard DeLuca.

x, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: DeLuca, Richard.

GUSN: 288830

Call Number: Stacks HE213.C6 D45 2011

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