Historic New England

Boston's Franklin Park :Olmsted, recreation, and the modern city /Ethan Carr ; afterword by Gary Hilderbrand.

201 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm., Frederick Law Olmsted designed Franklin Park in 1885 as the centerpiece of the Boston park system that later became known as the Emerald Necklace. Often cited with Central Park (1858) and Prospect Park (1865) as one of the three most important "large ...

Creators: Carr, Ethan, 1958- author. Hilderbrand, Gary R., author of afterword. Library of American Landscape History,

GUSN: 368650

Call Number: F73.65.C37 2023 Stacks

Painting the inhabited landscape :Fitz H. Lane and the global reach of antebellum America /Margaretta Markle Lovell.

xiii, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm, "Examines landscape, harborscape, and seascape paintings by Fitz H. Lane (1804-1865) that comment on agriculture, extraction industries, settlement patterns, trade, and the political economy of nineteenth-century coastal New...

Creators: Lovell, Margaretta M., author. Lane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865, artist.

GUSN: 368651

Call Number: ND237.L27 L68 2023 Stacks

Trailblazing women printmakers :Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers /Elena M. Sarni.

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 x 21 cm, "The Folly Cove Designers (officially 1941-1969) was a grassroots collective of predominantly women block printers founded by Caldecott Award-winner and beloved children's book author/illustrator Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios (of Mike Mulligan ...

Creators: Sarni, Elena M., author. Princeton Architectural Press,

GUSN: 368652

Call Number: Stacks NE539.B87 S27 2023

The commercial landscape of Boston in 1800 :documentary and archaeological perspectives on the geography of retail shopkeeping /by Gayle Elizabeth Sawtelle.

xiv, 458 pages : illustrations, maps

Creators: Sawtelle, Gayle Elizabeth.

GUSN: 368653

Call Number: Stacks HF5429.5.B6 S28 1999

Interiors de luxe.

55 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 36 cm

Date: 1926.

Creators: Sanford Mills (Sanford, Me.)

GUSN: 368654

Call Number: Stacks NK2004.I68 1926

Envois of the Rotch travelling scholarship, 1885-1892;being a series of measured drawings of European architecture,made for the trustees by holders of the Rotch scholarship, together with the successful designs submitted in the competitions.

11 unnumbered pages 62 plates (including plans) 41 cm

Date: 1896.

Creators: Boston Society of Architects. Rotch Scholarship Committee.

GUSN: 368655

Call Number: Stacks NA2340.B6 1896

The Petit Trianon :being a reproduction of plates from a work by James A. Arnott and John Wilson, architects, of Edinburgh. The Rotch traveling scholarship envois /by Joseph Maginnisse.

6 leaves, 83 leaves of plates, [6] pages, [209]-286 pages : chiefly illustrations, plans ; 35 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Arnott, James A. (James Alexander) Wilson, John, 1877- Maginnisse, Joseph. Rotch traveling scholarship envois.

GUSN: 368656

Call Number: Stacks NA1046.A76q

Copyright law of the United States of America :contained in title 17 of the United States Code.

175 pages ; 23 cm

Date: 1996

Creators: Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

GUSN: 368657

Call Number: Stacks KF2994.A2 U5 1996

Ethics and the archival profession :introduction and case studies /Karen Benedict.

2 preliminary leaves, 91 pages ; 23 cm, Ethics codes define societal expectations for individual and institutional moral conduct and performance. This volume of fourty case studies considers nearly every facet of professional archival work--from appraisal and administration to reference and the work...

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Benedict, Karen M. Society of American Archivists,

GUSN: 368658

Call Number: Stacks CD971.B46 2003

American Daguerreian art /Floyd and Marion Rinhart.

ix, 135 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm, Survey of the work of the early American photographer-artists, who from 1840 to 1860 created a lasting portrait of an age.

Creators: Rinhart, Floyd, author. Rinhart, Marion, author. Clarkson N. Potter (Firm),

GUSN: 368659

Call Number: Stacks TR365.R47 1967

Understanding use :objects in museums of science and technology /edited by Tim Boon, Elizabeth Haines, Arnaud Dubois, and Klaus Staubermann.

v, 242 pages ; 26 cm, "This volume proposes a way of thinking, and of developing practice, around three varieties of the use of science and technology museum objects: first, the ways that machines, instruments and equipment were used in their pre-museum 'lives' (which use provides the most frequent ...

Creators: Boon, Tim, editor. Haines, Elizabeth (Elizabeth V.), editor. Dubois, Arnaud, editor. Staubermann, K. B. (Klaus B.), editor.

GUSN: 368660

Call Number: Coll. T179.U53 2024

Our science, ourselves :how gender, race, and social movements shaped the study of science /Christa Kuljian, University of Massachusetts Press.

ix, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm., "When Christa Kuljian arrived on the Harvard College campus as a first-year student in the fall of 1980 with copies of Our Bodies, Ourselves and Ms. magazine, she was concerned that the women's movement had peaked in the previous ...

Creators: Kuljian, Christa, author

GUSN: 368733

Call Number: Stacks HQ1155.K85 2024

More than blue, more than Yankee :complexity and change in New England politics /edited by Amy Fried and Erin O'Brien.

xii, 267 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm, "New England politics can, at first blush, appear monochromatic. After all, only one member of the entire region's current delegation to the US Congress is a Republican; in contrast, only two states in the region-Rhode Island and Connecticut-had Democrati...

Creators: Fried, Amy, editor. O'Brien, Erin E., editor.

GUSN: 368734

Call Number: Stacks JK2295.N53 M67 2024

Chroniques de New York :romans, nouvelles /Edith Wharton ; édition établie et présentée par Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun et Anne Ullmo.

1274 pages : illustrations, portraits, fac-similés ; 21 cm., (S0 0 (BElle est là, autour de vous. Ne passez pas à côté – l’immédiat, le réel, le nôtre, le vôtre, celui du romancier qu’il attend… Faites New York ! (S1 (B(Henri James à Edith Wharton, 1902).Sur le conseil du romancier Henry James, l’Am...

Creators: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, auteur. Delanoë-Brun, Emmanuelle, éditeur intellectuel, auteur. Ullmo, Anne, éditeur intellectuel, auteur. Chénetier, Marc, 1946- traducteur. Malroux, Claire, traducteur. Mayoux, Suzanne V., traducteur. Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. House of mirth. Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Custom of the country. Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Age of innocence. Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Old New York.

GUSN: 368735

Call Number: Stacks PS3545.H16 C4 2024

The early furniture of French Canada /Jean Palardy ; translated from the French by Eric McLean.

411 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 1978, Ã1963.

Creators: Palardy, Jean, 1905-1991. McLean, Eric.

GUSN: 368867

Call Number: Coll NK2442.P313 1978

America and the daguerreotype /edited by John Wood.

xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm, Now available in paperback, America and the Daguerreo-type brings together 200 previously unpublished images (28 in full color) as it examines the earliest photographic process and its effect on the way we view ourselves. For this collection, John Wood selecte...

Creators: Wood, John, 1947 January 2- editor. Hendel, Richard, book designer. Kilgo, Dolores Ann, 1940- contributor. Stilgoe, John R., 1949- contributor. Stannard, David E., contributor. Johnson, Brooks, 1954- contributor. Graf, John F., 1962- contributor. Palmquist, Peter E., contributor. Verhulst, Jeanne, contributor. University of Iowa Press,

GUSN: 368868

Call Number: Stacks TR365.A47 1991

Architecture follows fish :an amphibious history of the North Atlantic /André Tavares.

277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "To what extent can a fish produce architecture? This book sets out to trace a socioecological history of North Atlantic architecture in relation to fisheries, thus shedding light on the connection that exists between the transformation of marine environments...

Creators: Tavares, André, 1976- author.

GUSN: 368869

Call Number: Stacks NA2543.S6 T38 2024

Catalogue, Boston Architectural Club Exhibition 1904 :in the gallery of The Boston Art Club, Dartmouth corner Newbury Street, from May 2nd to 14th inclusive.

146 pages : chiefly illustrations, plans ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1904.

Creators: Boston Architectural Club (1904)

GUSN: 368874

Call Number: Stacks NA2400.B7 B67 1904

One thing and another :gathered together by Charlotte Loring Lowell.

79 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm

Date: Ã1971.

Creators: Lowell, Charlotte Loring.

GUSN: 369748

Call Number: Stacks PS586.L68 1971

The art collection of the late Mr. & Mrs. Charles E.F. McCann :English XVII and XVIII century furniture ... /sold by the heirs.

332 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1942.

Creators: McCann, Charles E. F. Parke-Bernet Galleries.

GUSN: 369749

Call Number: 85M Stacks N5220.M25 x.M25 x

Catalogue of the Boston Architectural Club exhibition 1906 :at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, from November 5 to November 24, inclusive.

156 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Date: [1906]

Creators: Boston Architectural Club. Boston Public Library.

GUSN: 369750

Call Number: 85 M Stacks NA2400.B7 B67 1906

The Boston almanac for the year 1845. /By S.N. Dickinson.

166, [2] p., 1 folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 14 cm.

Date: c1844.

Creators: Dickinson, Samuel N. (Samuel Nelson), 1801-1848. Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880. Smith, Jerome Van Crowninshield, 1800-1879. Dickinson, Samuel N. (Samuel Nelson), 1801-1848, printer. Boynton, George W., -1884, engraver. Thomas Groom & Co.,

GUSN: 369751

Call Number: Stacks AY201.B7 B669

The run of the mill :a pictorial narrative of the expansion, dominion, decline, and enduring impact of the New England textile industry /by Steve Dunwell.

xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, Portrait of the human, mechanical and environmental determinants of New England's textile industry, the social, technological, cultural, and economic factors that perpetrated its creation, consolidation and decline and the remaining legacy.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Dunwell, Steve.

GUSN: 369756

Call Number: 85M Stacks HD9857.A1 D861978

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Award Medal

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association award medal for Doe, Hazelton & Co for awarding their carved furniture. On the heads side of the medal is a female figure with mechanical pieces under her feet and a shield on her left side. The shield is decorated with an arm holding a hammer, with a tr...

Date: 1850

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 1026

Accession Number: 1988.5

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Award Medal

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association award medal for Doe, Hazelton & Co for awarding their carved furniture. On the heads side of the medal is a female figure with mechanical pieces under her feet and a shield on her left side. The shield is decorated with an arm holding a hammer, with a tr...

Date: 1850

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 1027

Accession Number: 1988.6

ESCUTCHEON

Keyhole cover with beveled edges riveted to escutcheon; four countersunk holes in plate for mounting.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), silver (metal), plate (material)

GUSN: 1028

Accession Number: 1960.59

ESCUTCHEON

Tassel-shaped, with cover riveted to escutcheon; two countersunk holes in escutcheon for mounting.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), riveting

GUSN: 1029

Accession Number: 1933.484

ESCUTCHEON

Beveled edges on cover, which is riveted to escutcheon; two countersunk holes in escutcheon.

Date: 1800-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: beveling, brass (alloy), riveting

GUSN: 1030

Accession Number: 1933.485

Handle

Flame-style escutcheons. Tapered and turned-down thumb lever with flat head. Semi-rounded profiled handle.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 1031

Accession Number: 1933.1401A

PLASTER

Wavelike pattern of wallpaper (grey, black, white and green) on plaster, over white, blue and greenish paint.

Date: ca. 1794

Maker: unknown

Material: hair, painting (coating), plaster, wallpapers, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 1032

Accession Number: 1992.82.1-4

Brick

Flat brick.

Date: 1676 C-1679 C

Maker: unknown

Material: brick (clay product)

GUSN: 1033

Accession Number: 1922.362

Plaster

Plaster, blackened on the surface.

Date: 1676-1679

Maker: unknown

Material: plaster

GUSN: 1034

Accession Number: 1922.475

PLASTER

Pieces of plaster.

Date: 1720-1780

Maker: unknown

Material: plaster

GUSN: 1035

Accession Number: 1922.838

SLATE

Smoothed slate, now in two pieces, two edges beveled.

Maker: unknown

Material: beveling, slate (rock)

GUSN: 1036

Accession Number: 1922.839

PLASTER

Plaster with large lath impression on back and tan-grey paint on front; clumps of hair.

Maker: unknown

Material: hair, painting (coating), plaster, sand

GUSN: 1037

Accession Number: 1928.245

PLASTER

No description

Date: ca. 1768

Maker: unknown

Material: hair, painting (coating), plaster

GUSN: 1038

Accession Number: 1959.192

Nogging

About 22 pieces.

Date: ca. 1687

Maker: unknown

Material: clay, straw (plant material)

GUSN: 1039

Accession Number: 1959.220.2

CLAY

Two pieces plus small stuff; crumbling clay and straw mortar.

Date: ca. 1667

Maker: unknown

Material: clay, straw (plant material)

GUSN: 1040

Accession Number: 1963.380

PLASTER

White paint on front; lath impressions on reverse.

Date: 1668-1700

Maker: unknown

Material: hair, painting (coating), plaster

GUSN: 1041

Accession Number: 1974.223B

PLASTER

A: Layers of white paint on front; lath impression on reverse. B: Lath impression on back, wallpaper and paint on front. D: Wallpaper with red paint on top [now in two pieces 1992].

Date: 1700-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: hair, painting (coating), plaster, sand, straw (plant material), wallpapers

GUSN: 1042

Accession Number: 1974.224

GLASS, WINDOW

Small piece of greenish glass. Found in envelope inscribed "PIece of glass found, Nov. 1922, in the eaves, front, of the Scotch-Boardman house, Saugus. It is evidently from an old diamond-light window, and still shows the marks of the leading. It is cumulative evidence showing or bearing on the o...

Date: ca. 1687

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 1048

Accession Number: 1922.973

GLASS, WINDOW

Pane of amber bull's eye glass.

Date: 1900-1929

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 1049

Accession Number: 1929.1856

Print

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1050

Accession Number: 1989.13

Banjo Clock

No description

Maker: Willard, Simon, 1753-1848 (Maker)

GUSN: 1051

Accession Number: 1989.14

Teapot

Hand-painted porcelain teapot with gold handle and spout with fan ornamentation, bands of gold around the rim, neck, lid, body, and foot. Deep blue band with gold leaves and scrolls with burgundy flowers on the shoulder and lid. Fan shaped knop on lid. Part of eighty-three piece dinner set.

Date: 1835-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: glazing (coating), porcelain

GUSN: 1052

Accession Number: 1989.16.25AB

Pagoda

The pagoda is a three-dimensional architectural element that was assembled in place at Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, along the wall shared with the South Gallery in the China Trade Room. The elements are painted wood with nail fasteners.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1053

Accession Number: 1989.17

BOOK

Covers by Sarah Wyman Whitman

Maker: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 (Author)

GUSN: 1055

Accession Number: 1989.19

"The Alert" ship model

Model of the ship "Alert". Class "A" classification, 1/4" scale. Constructed on the solid hull lift method of wood. Authentically painted with a copper bottom, black topsides, with gun port band, yellow stripe, gray and green interior bulwarks with skylights and companyways in white. Natural scribed...

Date: 1941

Maker: Pratt, Winthrop, Jr. (Maker)

GUSN: 1056

Accession Number: 1989.20

Armchair

With cone finials in old finish.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1058

Accession Number: 1988.34

Card Table

Carved, reeded legs and birch-veneered rails.

Maker: unknown

Material: veneering

GUSN: 1059

Accession Number: 1988.35

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