Historic New England

Worn on this day :the clothes that made history /Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell.

xi, 324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm, Beginning on January 1st and ending on December 31st, Chrisman-Campbell looks at garments worn on monumental occasions across centuries. She offers capsule fashion histories of everything from space suits to wedding gowns, Olympics uniforms, and ar...

Creators: Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly, author.

GUSN: 357435

Call Number: Coll GT511.C49 2019

The iconic jersey :baseball x fashion /by Erin R. Corrales-Diaz.

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm, "The Iconic Jersey: Baseball x Fashion explores the design and aesthetics of the iconic baseball jersey both on and off the baseball field. Featuring over 35 historic and contemporary jerseys and baseball-inspired fashion, this ground-breaking volum...

Creators: Corrales-Diaz, Erin R., author, curator. Worcester Art Museum,

GUSN: 357436

Call Number: Stacks GV867.3.C67 2021

Dressing up :the women who influenced French fashion /Elizabeth L. Block.

282 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm, "A provocative look at late 19th-century French fashion, which discredits the couturier as "genius creator" and makes you think differently about the impact of the American women who influenced the market"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Block, Elizabeth L., author.

GUSN: 357437

Call Number: Coll GT610.B56 2021

The Oak Park studio of Frank Lloyd Wright /Lisa D. Schrenk.

xiii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, "Lisa Schrenk offers a detailed assessment of Frank Lloyd Wright's studio in Oak Park, Illinois. She focuses on the educational atmosphere of Wright's office in the context of his developing design ideology, revealing three phases as Wright transitioned from ...

Creators: Schrenk, Lisa Diane, author.

GUSN: 357447

Call Number: Stacks NA737.W7 S294 2021

How football became football :150 years of the game's evolution /Timothy P. Brown.

xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, How Football Became Football traces football's evolution from a version of rugby played before a handful of friends to a spectacle played in packed stadiums before television audiences of 100 million or more. Organized by era, How Football Became Football show...

Creators: Brown, Timothy P. (Timothy Patrick)

GUSN: 357448

Call Number: Stacks GV950.B76 2020

Turbulent years in Chelsea :documenting life in the '70s and '80s /Arnie Jarmak and Joshua Resnek.

142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Jarmak, Arnie, photographer. Resnek, Joshua, author.

GUSN: 357449

Call Number: Stacks F74.C5 J37 2020

A story of Maine in 112 objects: from prehistory to modern times /edited by Bernard P. Fishman, Director, Maine State Museum ; published in association with the Maine State Museum.

448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm, "This groundbreaking book features 112 essays and hundreds of photographs that highlight the best of the museum's collections - ranging from a walrus skull to a woman's World War II welding outfit. Included as well is the fascinating story of the museum itsel...

Creators: Fishman, Bernard P., editor. Maine State Museum,

GUSN: 357450

Call Number: Stacks F21.S76 2018

Connecticut architecture :stories of 100 places /Christopher Wigren, Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation.

xiii, 300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Creators: Wigren, Christopher, author.

GUSN: 357451

Call Number: Stacks NA730.C8 W54 2019

The atlas of Boston history /edited by Nancy S. Seasholes.

x, 209 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 37 cm

Creators: Seasholes, Nancy S., editor.

GUSN: 357452

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.3.A853 2019 (and 1 more)

The paintings of J.O.J. Frost :an American story /by Bethe Lee Moulton.

xiii, 159 pages : illustrations; maps ; 24 x 27 cm

Creators: Moulton, Bethe Lee, author. Moulton, Priscilla L., dedicatee.

GUSN: 357453

Call Number: Coll ND237.F767 M68 2019 (and 1 more)

Treasures afoot :shoe stories from the Georgian era /Kimberly S. Alexander.

x, 234 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm, In 'Treasures Afoot', Kimberly S. Alexander introduces readers to the history of the Georgian shoe. Presenting a series of stories that reveal how shoes were made, sold, and worn during the long eighteenth century, Alexander traces the fort...

Creators: Alexander, Kimberly S., 1963- author.

GUSN: 357454

Call Number: Stacks TS1000.A376 2018 c.1 (and 1 more)

Summer suffragists :woman suffrage activists in Scituate, Massachusetts /Lyle Nyberg.

272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "Scituate, Massachusetts, was the summer home of a surprising number of nationally recognized leaders of the suffrage movement to give women the right to vote. Why did they stay there, and how did they fight for the vote? These questions are addressed in this book....

Creators: Nyberg, Lyle, author.

GUSN: 357729

Call Number: JK1911 M4 N83 2020

Maine quilts :250 years of comfort and community /Laureen A. LaBar ; with essays by Lynne Z. Bassett and Pamela Weeks.

xiv, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, "The history of quilting in Maine is a story of community and Maine State Museum curator Laurie LaBar coaxes stories out of objects and uses those stories to enlighten, entertain, and to bring new voices to Maine history"-- Provided by publishe...

Creators: LaBar, Laureen A., author. Bassett, Lynne Z., 1961- contributor. Weeks, Pamela, contributor. Maine State Museum,

GUSN: 357733

Call Number: Stacks NK9112 L27 2021 c1 (and 1 more)

Joseph Hodges Choate;memorial addresses delivered before the Century association, January 19, 1918.

56 pages 2 portrait (including frontispiece) 23 cm

Date: 1918.

Creators: Century Association (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 357735

Call Number: Stacks KF373 C4 C4

Silk stocking mats :hooked mats of the Grenfell Mission /Paula Laverty.

x, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm, "Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: "When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador!" The creative recycling of tattered stockings is just one of many innovations that made Grenfell hook...

Date: 2005.

Creators: Laverty, Paula.

GUSN: 357737

Call Number: Coll NK2813 A3 N47 2005

Lost Wonderland :the brief and brilliant life of Boston's million dollar amusement park /Stephen R. Wilk.

xvi, 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm, "If you take Boston's Blue Line to its northern end, you'll reach the Wonderland stop. Few realize that a twenty-three-acre amusement park once sat nearby-the largest in New England, and grander than any of the Coney Island parks that inspired it. Opened ...

Creators: Wilk, Stephen R., author.

GUSN: 357739

Call Number: Stacks GV1853.3 M42 W668 2020

The world of Plymouth Plantation /Carla Gardina Pestana.

viii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm, "On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a...

Creators: Pestana, Carla Gardina, author.

GUSN: 357741

Call Number: Stacks F68 P395 2020

The truth about baked beans :an edible history of New England /Meg Muckenhoupt.

345 pages ; 24 cm, ""The Truth about Baked Beans" is an edible history of New England"-- Provided by publisher., Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: When did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? Storekeepers in Faneuil Hall and Duck Tour guides may tell you that the Pilgrims learne...

Creators: Muckenhoupt, Margaret, author.

GUSN: 357753

Call Number: Stacks TX715.2 N48 M83 2020

Forever struggle :activism, identity, & survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880-2018 /Michael Liu.

xii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm, "Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras of hostility and urban transformation. It has been wounded and transformed, slowly ceding ground; at the...

Creators: Liu, Michael, 1948- author.

GUSN: 357755

Call Number: Stacks F73.9.C5 L58 2020

Inventing Boston :design, production, and consumption /Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

viii, 221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm, During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Boston was both a colonial capital and the third most important port in the British empire, trailing only London and Bristol. Boston was also an independent entity that pursued its own interests and ...

Creators: Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Edward Strong), 1954- author.

GUSN: 357778

Call Number: Stacks NK838.B67 C665 2019

The greatest beach :a history of the Cape Cod National Seashore /Ethan Carr.

xii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Creators: Carr, Ethan, 1958- author.

GUSN: 357779

Call Number: Stacks F72.C3 C37 2019

Joiner's work /by Peter Follansbee.

xiv, 247 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, "Forget what you think about 17th-century New England furniture. It's neither dark nor boring. Instead, it's a riot of geometric carvings and bright colors--all built upon simple constructions that use rabbets, nails and mortise-and-tenon joints. Peter F...

Creators: Follansbee, Peter, author.

GUSN: 357780

Call Number: Coll TT195.F65 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Shaker vision :seeing beauty in early America /Joseph Manca.

x, 391 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm, "The Shakers are known for self-denial and austerity in everyday living and their material world, as embodied by the heavenly simplicity and purity of their chairs and blanket chests. Yet the believers also enjoyed a diversity of visual ...

Creators: Manca, Joseph, 1956- author.

GUSN: 357781

Call Number: Stacks BX9789.A47 M36 2019

Votes for women! :a portrait of persistence /Kate Clarke Lemay ; with Susan Goodier, Martha S. Jones, and Lisa Tetrault.

xi, 289 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits, map ; 28 cm, "Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women celebrates past efforts while looking toward what actions we might take in the future to further support women's equality"--Int...

Creators: Lemay, Kate Clarke, 1978- author. Goodier, Susan, author. Jones, Martha S., author. Tetrault, Lisa (Lisa Marguerite), author. National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution),

GUSN: 357786

Call Number: Stacks KF4895.L46 2019

Newport :the artful city /John R. Tschirch.

240 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 x 25 cm, This is a richly illustrated portrait of Newport, Rhode Island as a work of urban art, from colonial times to the present, both documented and celebrated in the maps, paintings, photographs, poetry and prose of renowned artists ...

Creators: Tschirch, John R., author.

GUSN: 357788

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 T73 2020

Rather elegant than showy :the classical furniture of Isaac Vose /Robert D. Mussey Jr., Clark Pearce.

x, 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 x 25 cm, "Isaac Vose was well known in his day among style-conscious Bostonians, his name synonymous with furniture of the highest quality and advanced design. His shop, the "first on Boston Neck," was in a prominent location and served ...

Creators: Mussey, Robert D., author. Pearce, Clark, author.

GUSN: 357791

Call Number: Coll NK2439.V37 M87 2018 (and 1 more)

A history of Boston in 50 artifacts /Joseph M. Bagley.

xii, 208 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm, "An illustrated history of the city of Boston, as seen through fifty objects of archaeological significance, ranging from chamber pots to cowbells"--Provided by publisher.

Creators: Bagley, Joseph M., 1985- author.

GUSN: 357793

Call Number: Stacks F73.39.B34 2016

An American palace :Chicago's Samuel M. Nickerson House /David Bagnall ; with an introduction by Richard H. Driehaus.

119 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 30 cm

Date: Ã2011.

Creators: Bagnall, David. Driehaus, Richard H. Richard H. Driehaus Museum.

GUSN: 359489

Call Number: Stacks NA7511.4.C45 B34 2011

Edwin Lutyens :country houses : from the archives of Country life /Gavin Stamp.

192 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm, "Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine Country Life, in 1889. Hudson th...

Date: 2001.

Creators: Stamp, Gavin.

GUSN: 359490

Call Number: Stacks NA997.L8 S73 2001

Great houses of London /James Stourton ; photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg.

328 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm, The great houses of London represent one of the marvels of English architecture and yet they are almost entirely unknown. They are for the most part disguised behind sober facades but their riches within are astonishing. From the romantic 17th century Ashburn...

Date: 2012.

Creators: Stourton, James. Von der Schulenburg, Fritz.

GUSN: 359491

Call Number: Stacks NA7512.4.L6 S86 2012

The White House :the history of an American idea /William Seale.

xiv, 336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, For two centuries the White House has served not only as the official residence of the president of the United States, but as the symbolic home of its owners, the American people. The White House: The History of an American Idea celebrates the man...

Creators: Seale, William, author. White House Historical Association.

GUSN: 359492

Call Number: Stacks F204.W5 S44 1992

Technology in the country house /Marilyn Palmer and Ian West.

ix, 205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Creators: Palmer, Marilyn, 1943- author. West, Ian (Writer on building), author.

GUSN: 359493

Call Number: Coll TX298.P35 2016

The National Trust book of great houses of Britain /Nigel Nicolson.

287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Date: Ã1978.

Creators: Nicolson, Nigel. National Trust (Great Britain)

GUSN: 359506

Call Number: Stacks NA7620.N5 1969

Through an uncommon lens :the life and photography of F. Holland Day /Patricia J. Fanning.

xxiii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 255 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm, "Based in the Boston area, F. Holland Day (1864-1933) was a central figure in artistic circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Publisher of Oscar Wilde and Stephen Crane, mentor to a young Ka...

Creators: Fanning, Patricia J., author.

GUSN: 359507

Call Number: Stacks TR140.D37 F44 2008

The national Capitol :its architecture, art and history /by George C. Hazelton, Jr. ; illustrated.

[8], 287 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 24 cm

Creators: Hazelton, George Cochrane, 1868-1921, author.

GUSN: 359508

Call Number: Rare F204.C2 H4 1897

The Train on the Beach :Forgotten Railroads that Transformed Winthrop, Orient Heights, and Revere Beach, Massachusetts /William Lieberman.

xiv, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Creators: Lieberman, William, author.

GUSN: 359509

Call Number: Stacks HE2771.M4 L54 2017

Boston history for kids :from Red Coats to Red Sox with 21 activities /Richard Panchyk ; foreword by Michael Dukakis.

ix, 129 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm, "Few American cities are as steeped in history as Boston. Starting with its Native American and Puritan roots, through its pivotal role in the Revolutionary War and its many contributions to art and literature, Boston has earned its reputation as a m...

Creators: Panchyk, Richard, author. Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- writer of foreword.

GUSN: 359510

Call Number: Stacks F73.33 .P36 2018

House stories :the meanings of home in a New England town /Beth Luey.

x, 182 pages ; 23 cm, "Historic houses adorned with plaques populate New England like nowhere else in the country. These plaques note the construction year and original owner of the house, but they tell nothing about the rich lives of the people who lived there. In House Stories, Beth Luey takes rea...

Creators: Luey, Beth, author.

GUSN: 359511

Call Number: Stacks F74.F1 L83 2017

United tastes :the making of the first American cookbook /Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald.

xi, 351 pages ; 24 cm, "The Library of Congress has designated American Cookery (1796) by Amelia Simmons one of the eighty-eight 'Books That Shaped America.' Its recognition as 'the first American cookbook' has attracted an enthusiastic modern audience of historians, food journalists, and general re...

Creators: Stavely, Keith W. F., 1942- author. Fitzgerald, Kathleen, 1952- author.

GUSN: 359512

Call Number: Stacks TX703.S53 S73 2017

Circle around Monadnock :time travel with horses /Francelia Mason Clark with Pam Godin and Shelley Mozier.

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm, "Finding and following one of New Hampshire's oldest trails into history--on horseback . . . Francelia Clark finds and follows one of the oldest trails in New Hampshire's Monadnock region into history--on horseback. Along the way she stu...

Creators: Clark, Francelia Mason, 1938- author. Godin, Pam, author. Mozier, Shelley, author.

GUSN: 359513

Call Number: Stacks F42.C5 C55 2018

The music of early American clocks, 1730-1830 /Kate Van Winkle Keller and Gary R. Sullivan.

259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Keller, Kate Van Winkle. Sullivan, Gary R. Willard House and Clock Museum (North Grafton, Mass.)

GUSN: 359514

Call Number: Coll TS543.U6 K45 2017

H.H. Richardson :three architectural tours /Ken Bressler.

103 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Creators: Bresler, Kenneth, author. Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886.

GUSN: 359515

Call Number: Stacks NA735.B7 B74 2018

Along the Valley Line :the history of the Connecticut Valley Railroad /Max R. Miller.

xv, 138 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm., The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Saybrook. Completed in 1871, today the railroad is known throughout New England for the nostalgic ...

Creators: Miller, Max R., author.

GUSN: 359516

Call Number: Stacks TF25.C65 M55 2017

Get out of my room! :a history of teen bedrooms in America /Jason Reid.

viii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and maybe slam...

Creators: Reid, Jason, 1974- author.

GUSN: 359517

Call Number: Stacks NK2117.T44 R45 2017

The long journeys home :the repatriations of Henry 'åOpåukaha'ia and Albert Afraid of Hawk /Nick Bellantoni.

xxix, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm., "åOpåukaha'ia (ca. 1792-1818), also known as Henry Obookiah, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879-1900), also known as Albert Afraid of Hawk, lived almost a century apart and came from different Indigenous nations--Hawaiian and Lakota. Yet the circumstances ...

Creators: Bellantoni, Nicholas F., author.

GUSN: 359518

Call Number: Stacks CC79.5.H85 B45 2018

The farmhouse book :tradition, style, and experience /David Larkin.

222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Date: 2005.

Creators: Larkin, David, 1936-

GUSN: 359542

Call Number: Stacks NA8208.L37 2005

Adventures with old houses /by Richard Hampton Jenrette ; foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales ; principal photography by John M. Hall.

223 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, Jenrette describes his restoration of several historic buildings throughout the country, including Roper House (9 East Battery) in Charleston and Millford Plantation near Pinewood.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Jenrette, Richard H.

GUSN: 359543

Call Number: Stacks NA7207.J45 2000

Capes :design ideas for renovating, remodeling, and building new /Jane Gitlin.

218 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm., Re-introduces readers to the classic Cape Cod home, featuring more than twenty case studies of updated houses.

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Gitlin, Jane.

GUSN: 359544

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.G52 2003

Maine antique digest :the Americana chronicles : 30 years of stories, sales, personalities, and scandals /edited by Lita Solis-Cohen.

448 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2004.

Creators: Solis-Cohen, Lita.

GUSN: 359545

Call Number: Coll NK1.M356 2004

Interior design and decoration.

vi, 699 pages illustrations 25 cm

Date: [1974]

Creators: Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, 1887-1961. Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, 1887-1961. Elements of interior design and decoration.

GUSN: 359546

Call Number: Coll NK2110.W55 1974

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