Historic New England

Antiques:a popular guide to antiques for everyone;introduction by Peter Philp.

144 pages illustrations (some color). 29 cm

Date: 1973.

GUSN: 361781

Call Number: Coll NK1125.A64 1973

Winterthur illustrated /John A.H. Sweeney ; photographs by Gilbert Ask ; introduction by Henry Francis DuPont.

179 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, map ; 28 cm.

Date: 1963

Creators: Sweeney, John A. H. Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880-1969. Sweeney, John A. H. Treasure house of early American rooms. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 361782

Call Number: Coll NK460.W5 S9 1963

Culture throughlines :values, visions, and transformation--African American music, American culture, and society /edited by William Banfield.

xii, 194 pages ; 26 cm., "What are the connective tissues that make human narratives thread and relate; values, heritage expressions, and how these define and sustain people. As a research associate with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH), the editor's work focuses on w...

Creators: Banfield, William C., 1961- editor. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,

GUSN: 362835

Call Number: stacks L3479.C85 2023

Buying time for heritage :how to save an endangered historic property /J. Myrick Howard.

ix, 330 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm, "Fully revised and redesigned, Buying Time for Heritage is a practical guide on how to save endangered historic properties. Using Preservation NC's Myrick Howard's decades of experience in historic preservation, readers will find legal, financial, politic...

Creators: Howard, J. Myrick, 1953- author.

GUSN: 362836

Call Number: Stacks NA111.H69 2023

Garden tourism /Richard Benfield, Central Connecticut State University, USA.

ix, 257 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm, Garden visitation has been a tourism motivator for many years and can now be enjoyed in many different forms. Private garden visiting, historical garden tourism, urban gardens, and a myriad of festiv...

Creators: Benfield, Richard.

GUSN: 362837

Call Number: stacks G156.5.E58 B45 2013

Newport Cottages, 1835-1890 :the summer villas before the Vanderbilt era.

xiii, 385 page : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Date: 2023.

Creators: Kathrens, Michael C.

GUSN: 362838

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.N67 K38 2023

Life houses.

pages 1-52, 312-416, [53]-114 pages : illustrations, plans ; 31 cm, Plans for houses originally commissioned by and featured in Life magazine.

Creators: Stone, Edward Durell, author. Koch, Richard, 1889-1971, author. Wurster, William Wilson, author. Kelley, H. Roy (Harold Roy), 1892- author. Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959, author. Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962, author. Embury, Aymar, II, 1880-1966, author. Harrison & Fouilhoux,

GUSN: 362848

Call Number: Stacks NA7208.L54 1938

Better Homes & Gardens book of [five star] home plans.

28 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Date: 1945.

Creators: Better Homes and Gardens Books (Firm)

GUSN: 362849

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.B4 1945 c.1 (and 1 more)

New ideas for building your home.

204 pages 32 cm

Date: 1946.

GUSN: 362850

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.B528 1946

The book of Bildcost gardened-home plans /Better homes & gardens ; edited by John Normile.

70 pages : illustrations, plans ; 33 cm

Date: 1939.

Creators: Normile, John.

GUSN: 362859

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.B527 1939

Better Homes & Gardens book of five star home plans.

66 pages illustrations, plans

Date: [1946]

Creators: Normile, John, editor.

GUSN: 362860

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.B4 1946

The book of Bildcost gardened home plans / Better homes & gardens ; edited by John Normile.

70 pages illustrations

Date: 1941.

GUSN: 362863

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.B527 1941

The new antiquarians /written and curated by Michael Diaz-Griffith ; primary photography by Brian W. Ferry.

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm, The once rarified and exclusive world of antiques is bursting open thanks to a new generation of collectors. The New Antiquarians captures 17 of the spaces of these young connoisseurs, spirited interiors formed from unorthodox approaches to collecti...

Creators: Diaz-Griffith, Michael, author. Ferry, Brian W.

GUSN: 362868

Call Number: Coll NK1125.D425 2023

Classical principles for modern design :lessons from Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman's The Decoration of Houses /Thomas Jayne ; written with Ted Loos.

212 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm, Interior designer and decorative arts historian Thomas Jayne takes on the redoubtable Edith Wharton and her co-author Ogden Codman, whose 1897 book 'The Decoration of Houses' is acknowledged as the Bible of American interior design. Wharton and Codman advocat...

Creators: Jayne, Thomas, author. Loos, Ted, author.

GUSN: 364308

Call Number: Coll NK2110.J39 2018

Born in Cambridge :400 years of ideas and innovators /Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta.

xxii, 396 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm, "Born in Cambridge is both a history book and a story of contemporary events. It provides several dozen vignettes of innovative people who did formative work in Cambridge, such as African American social critic and early Civil Rights leader...

Creators: Weintraub, Karen, 1966- author. Kuchta, Michael, author.

GUSN: 364309

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.C1.W45 2022

Everything for the garden /Judith B. Tankard, Richard C Nylander, Alan Emmet, Virginia Lopez Begg ; [edited by] Richard Cheek.

143 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Creators: Tankard, Judith B., author. Nylander, Richard C., author. Emmet, Alan, 1927-2021, author. Begg, Virginia Lopez, author. Cheek, Richard, editor.

GUSN: 364312

Call Number: Rare SB451.E84 2019

From guiding lights to beacons for business :the many lives of Maine's lighthouses /edited by Richard Cheek ; introduction by Olympia J. Snowe.

239 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: 2012.

Creators: Cheek, Richard.

GUSN: 364313

Call Number: Rare VK1024.M2 F76 2012

A woman's wit & whimsy :the 1833 diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy /edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer.

xii, 180 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Waterston, Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, 1812-1899. Palmer, Beverly Wilson, 1936- Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 364383

Call Number: Coll PS3157.W33 Z477 2003

America's paper money :a canvas for an emerging nation /William L. Pressly.

xviii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., "In 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became the first government in the Western world to print paper money, the imagery for which initiated an indigenous American art form of remarkable dynamism and originality. After the Revolutionary War, disillusioned ...

Creators: Pressly, William L., 1944- author. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,

GUSN: 364385

Call Number: Stacks HG591.P74 2023

The painted furniture of French Canada, 1700-1840 /John A. Fleming with photographs by James A. Chambers.

179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Creators: Fleming, John A., 1935- Canadian Museum of Civilization.

GUSN: 364487

Call Number: Coll NK2441.A1 F54 1994

Splendid legacy :the Havemeyer collection /Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen [and others] ; with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth [and others].

xvi, 415 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Creators: Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 364488

Call Number: Coll N5220.H295 S65 1993

Artist and visionary :William Matthew Prior revealed /by Jacquelyn Oak and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw.

64 pages : color front, color illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm

Date: 2012.

Creators: Prior, William Matthew, 1806-1873. Oak, Jacquelyn. Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, 1968-

GUSN: 364489

Call Number: Coll N6507.O13 2012

Living with form :the Horn collection of contemporary crafts /photographs by Matt Bradley.

vii, 215 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm, "Living with Form expresses the concept that artwork can become part of your home and enrich your life. This collection of contemporary crafts is focused on shape, volume, and the tactile nature of wood, clay, fiber, glass and metal."--Page 4 of cover.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Bradley, Matt, 1947- Arkansas Arts Center.

GUSN: 364490

Call Number: Coll NK535.H67 L58 1999

Writing New England :an anthology from the Puritans to the present /edited by Andrew Delbanco.

xlvi, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, New England writing begins some 400 years ago when a group of English Puritans. Over the centuries New Englanders have produced one of the great literary traditions of the world including fiction, poetry history, memoirs, letters, and essays. This book provid...

Date: 2001.

Creators: Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-

GUSN: 364491

Call Number: Coll F4.5.W75 2001

Tea and sympathy :post-Revolutionary ceramics in the Stamford Historical Society /catalogue prepared by Diana Edwards Roussel.

24 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Date: 1981.

Creators: Edwards, Diana, 1943- Stamford Historical Society.

GUSN: 364492

Call Number: Coll NK4085.R86

Minton pottery & porcelain of the first period, 1793-1850 /[by] Geoffrey A. Godden.

xvi, 168 pages illustrations, 12 color plates, portraits 26 cm

Date: [1968]

Creators: Godden, Geoffrey A.

GUSN: 364493

Call Number: Coll NK4210.M55 G6 1968b

Pottery & porcelain tablewares /John P. Cushion.

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Date: 1976.

Creators: Cushion, John Patrick.

GUSN: 364494

Call Number: Coll NK4695.T33 C87

Potteries pots :the best in the world : ceramics at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.

31 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Creators: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.

GUSN: 364495

Call Number: Coll NK3735.G7 S76 1999

Sortilèges de Paris.Maquette de Claude Arthaud. Photos de Brassï, et al.

30 pages illustrations 26 cm.

Date: [1952]

Creators: Cali, François.

GUSN: 364496

Call Number: Stacks DC707.C3

Le livre de Paris.Photos de Janine Niepce. Texte de Georges Charensol.

257 pages (chiefly illustrations) 28 cm

Date: [1957]

Creators: Niepce, Janine. Charensol, Georges, 1899-1995, editor.

GUSN: 364497

Call Number: Stacks DC707.N66

Ira Rakatansky :as modern as tomorrow /edited by John Caserta and Lynnette Widder ; essays by Joan Ockman and Lynnette Widder ; photographs by Thad Russell and John Caserta.

206 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, plans ; 22 cm.

Date: 2010.

Creators: Caserta, John. Widder, Lynnette. Ockman, Joan.

GUSN: 364701

Call Number: Stacks NA737.R253 I73 2010

Chinese in Boston, 1870-1965 /Wing-kai To and the Chinese Historical Society of New England.

127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 2008.

Creators: To, Wing-kai. Chinese Historical Society of New England.

GUSN: 364703

Call Number: 85M Ref E184.C5 T6 2008

Rights in the digital era /edited by Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt & Christopher J. Prom ; with an introduction by Peter B. Hirtle.

v, 238 pages : forms, illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Briston, Heather. Understanding copyright law. Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L. Balancing access and privacy in manuscript collections. Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L. Balancing access and privacy in the records of organizations. McKay, Aprille Cooke. Managing rights and permissions. Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L., editor. Prom, Christopher J., editor. Hirtle, Peter B., writer of introduction.

GUSN: 364734

Call Number: 85M Ref KF4325. R54 2015

The subversive stitch :embroidery and the making of the feminine /Rozsika Parker.

xxii, 247 pages, 66 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm, "The Subversive Stitch is now available again with a new Introduction that brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male emb...

Creators: Parker, Rozsika, author.

GUSN: 364735

Call Number: Coll. NK9206.P37 2019

Edward Hopper & Cape Ann :illuminating an American landscape /Elliot Bostwick Davis ; foreword by Oliver Barker.

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 27 x 29 cm, "Edward Hopper & Cape Ann tells the largely ignored but significant origin story of Edward Hopper's years in and around Gloucester, Massachusetts--a period and place that imbued Hopper's paintings with a clarity and purpose that had eluded...

Creators: Davis, Elliot Bostwick, author. Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967, artist. Barker, Oliver, writer of foreword. Whitney Museum of American Art, Cape Ann Museum,

GUSN: 364748

Call Number: 85M Stacks ND237.H75 A4 2023

The pocket :a hidden history of women's lives, 1660-1900 /Barbara Burman, Ariane Fennetaux.

263 pages : photographs (chiefly color) ; 26 cm, Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, yards of stolen ribbon, thimbles, snuff boxes, a picture of a lover, two live ducks: these are just some of the fascinating things carried by women and girls in their tie-on pockets, an essential accessory throughout the 1...

Creators: Burman, Barbara, author. Fennetaux, Ariane, author. Yale University Press.

GUSN: 364761

Call Number: Coll. GT2350.B87 2019

Interpreting Christmas at museums and historic sites /Edited by Kenneth C. Turino and Max A. van Balgooy.

pages cm., "The comprehensive guide to the interpretation of Christmas at museums and historic sites. It shows how Christmas celebrations evolved along with regional differences to help create a distinct and accurate presentation for museums of different periods and locations"-- Provided by publishe...

Creators: Turino, Kenneth, editor. Balgooy, Max van, editor.

GUSN: 365544

Call Number: Stacks GT4985.I57 2024

The American frugal housewife :dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy /by Mrs. Child ...

130 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Date: 1836.

Creators: Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.

GUSN: 365545

Call Number: TX147.C53 1836

The Rumford complete cook bookby Lily Haxworth Wallace.

xviii, 241 pages 20 cm

Creators: Wallace, Lily Haxworth, author. Rumford Company. Department of Home Economics.

GUSN: 365546

Call Number: Stacks TX715.W23 1918

The Naval War of 1812 :a documentary history /William S. Dudley, editor, Michael J. Crawford, associate editor ; with a foreword by John D.H. Kane, Jr.

4 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm, "During the War of 1812 the U.S. Navy came of age. In fleet actions on the lakes and single ship engagements at sea, American men of war defeated Royal Navy ships of similar force. Naval officers such as Isaac Hull, Stephen Decatur, Oliver H. Perry, David Por...

Creators: Dudley, William S., editor, writer of foreword. Crawford, Michael J., editor. Kane, John D. H., writer of foreword. Hughes, Christine F., 1949- editor. Melia, Tamara Moser, 1955- editor. Allard, Dean C., 1933-2018, writer of foreword. Brodine, Charles E., 1956- editor. Naval Historical Center (U.S.), Naval History & Heritage Command (U.S.),

GUSN: 365547

Call Number: Stacks E360.N35 1985

History of Boston, from 1630 to 1856.Illustrated with one hundred and twenty engravings.

xi, [v]-vi, [xiii]-xv, 246 pages illustrations, plates 16 cm

Date: 1856.

Creators: Homans, I. Smith (Isaac Smith), 1807-1874.

GUSN: 365548

Call Number: Rare F73.3.H77 1856

History of the New England Woman's Press Association, 1885-1931 /Myra B. Lord, historian.

4 unnumbered pages, 393 pages, 26 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 24 cm

Creators: Lord, Myra B., 1861-1933, author. Winslow, Helen M. (Helen Maria), 1851-1938, writer of supplementary textual content. Graphic Press, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 365549

Call Number: Rare PN4784.W7 L6 1932

The Channay syndicate /by Edward Oppenheim.

261 pages ; 19 cm

Date: 1927.

Creators: Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips), 1866-1946.

GUSN: 365550

Call Number: Stacks PZ3.O62 Ch 1927

A Handbook of New England.

927 pages : illustrations, plans ; 19 cm.

Date: 1921.

Creators: Sargent, Porter, publisher.

GUSN: 365551

Call Number: Stacks F9.H23 1921

The golden flower, chrysanthemum :verses /by Edith M. Thomas, Richard Henry Stoddard, Alice Ward Bailey, Celia Thaxter, Kate Upson Clark, Louis Carroll, Margaret Deland, Robert Browning & Oliver Wendell Homles ; collected, arranged and embellished with original designs by F. Schuyler Mathews ; illustrated with reproductions of studies from nature in water color by James & Sidney Callowhill, Alois Lunzer and F.S.M.

[5], 2-9 [9] p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: [1890]

Creators: Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938, compiler, illustrator. Callowhill, James, illustrator. Callowhill, Sidney, illustrator. Lunzer, Alois, illustrator. Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925. Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903. Bailey, Alice Ward, 1857-1922. Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. Clark, Kate Upson, 1851-1935. Carroll, Louis. Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945. Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. L. Prang & Co.,

GUSN: 365552

Call Number: Rare PN6110.F6 M2 1890

Eugène Cuvelier :photographer in the circle of Corot /[Ellen Shultz, editor].

16 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Date: Ã1996.

Creators: Cuvelier, Eugène, 1837-1900. Shultz, Ellen. Daniel, Malcolm R. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 365553

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR660.5.C874 1996

Boston's South End /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ; contemporary photographs by James Z. Kyprianos.

96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2005.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell. Kyprianos, James Z.

GUSN: 365554

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.68.S7 S357 2005

West Roxbury /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco.

96 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell.

GUSN: 365555

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.W59 S26 2003

South Boston /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ; contemporary photographs by Charlie Rosenberg.

95 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell. Rosenberg, Charlie.

GUSN: 365556

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.68.S7 S37 2006

Roxbury /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ; contemporary photographs by Charlie Rosenberg.

95 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell. Rosenberg, Charlie.

GUSN: 365557

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.R9 S263 2007

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