Historic New England

Final report of the Joint Board of Metropolitan Improvements, pursuant to chapter 113 of the resolves of 1909 and chapters 112 and 134 of the resolves of 1910.

145 p. : folded maps ; 23 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Massachusetts. Joint Board on Metropolitan Improvements.

GUSN: 149639

Call Number: Stacks F73.67.A1

Building code of the city of Boston. Consisting of chapter 479 of the Acts of 1938 as amended by chapter 217 of the Acts of 1939, with the amendments by ordinance of the City council incorporated.

v, 306 p, [1] p. incl. tables, diagr. 20 cm.

Date: 1944.

Creators: Boston (Mass.).

GUSN: 149640

Call Number: Stacks TH225.B72 A4 1944 c.1 (and 2 more)

Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristics. With biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men. Comp. under the supervision of Richard Herndon. Ed. by Edwin M. Bacon ...

vi, 461 p. illus., plates, ports. 29 cm.

Date: 1892.

Creators: Herndon, Richard, comp. Bacon, Edwin Munroe, 1844-1916, ed.

GUSN: 149641

Call Number: Ref. F73.5.H55

Jubilee days. An illustrated daily record of the humorous features of the World's peace jubilee. With illustrations by Augustus Hoppin, engraved by the Chemical engraving company. no. 1-16; June 17-July 4, 1872.

2 p. ¾.,68 p. illus.,pl. 39 cm. daily except Sunday.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907, ed. Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, ed. Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896.

GUSN: 149642

Call Number: Stacks ML38.B7 P42

Boston Common : scenes from four centuries / by M.A. De Wolfe Howe.

x, 87 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill., facsim., map, plan ; 29 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960. Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 149643

Call Number: Stacks F73.65.C7 H8

Metropolitan Boston; a modern history; editor-in-chief, Albert P. Langtry.

5 v. fronts. (vol. I-IV) plates, ports., col. coats of arms. 28 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Langtry, Albert Perkins, 1860-1939, ed. Lewis Historical Publishing Co.

GUSN: 149644

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.3.L27 v.1 (and 3 more)

About Boston; sight, sound, flavor & inflection. With drawings by the author.

192 p. illus. 20 cm.

Date: 1948.

Creators: McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-

GUSN: 149645

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.M17

Boston sights : or, handbook for visitors / by R. L. Midgley ; illustrated by Billings, Hill, Barry and John Andrew.

214 p. : ill, 2 maps (tipped in) ; 18 cm.

Date: 1865.

Creators: Midgley, R. L.

GUSN: 149646

Call Number: Stacks F73.18.M5 1865

Report of the Commission on Marking Historical Sites of the city of Boston, 1924-1937. Commission, Thomas H. Dowd, chairman, Julius H. Tuttle, Wilfred F. Kelley, Frank Leveroni, Joseph A. F. O'Neil.

151 p. incl. front., illus. (incl. port.) plates. 26 cm.

Date: 1937?]

Creators: Boston (Mass.). Commission on Marking Historical Sites.

GUSN: 149647

Call Number: Stacks F73.37.B495

The book of Boston: the Colonial period, 1630-1775. With photos. by Samuel Chamberlain.

127 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1960]

Creators: Ross, Marjorie Drake.

GUSN: 149648

Call Number: Stacks F73.4.R6

A history of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts, from its origin to the present period; with some account of the environs. By Caleb H. Snow ...

iv, [4], [9]-400 p. front., illus., plates, map, 3 plans (1 fold.) 24 cm.

Date: 1825.

Creators: Snow, Caleb H. (Caleb Hopkins), 1796-1835.

GUSN: 149649

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.3.S68

Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners. (Annual)

27 v. illus., plates, fold. map, plans, tables, charts. 23 cm.

Date: [1893]-1920.

Creators: Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915. Casas, William Beltran de las, 1857- Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission.

GUSN: 149650

Call Number: Stacks SB483.B7 1893 (and 14 more)

Annual report of the registry department of the City of Boston for the year ...

5 v. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1901-1905.

Creators: Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept.

GUSN: 149652

Call Number: Stacks HA730.B7 A2 1904

Municipal register : containing rules and orders of the City Council, the city charter and recent ordinances, and a list of the officers of the City of Boston, for ... (Annual)

v. : ill., maps ; 22-24 cm.

Creators: Boston (Mass.) Boston (Mass.). Statistics Dept. Boston (Mass.). City Council.

GUSN: 149653

Call Number: Stacks JS602.A3 1912 (and 1 more)

Old houses in the south county of Rhode Island / Jeanne Lippitt Weeden, Marion Kimball Hadley Ball ; compiled by the National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

x, 68 p. : ill. (incl. plan), map ; 28 cm.

Date: 1932.

Creators: Weeden, Jeane Lippitt. Ball, Marion Kimball Hadley. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Rhode Island.

GUSN: 149654

Call Number: Stacks F80.W44 1932

New England meeting house and church: 1630-1850 / Editor: Peter Benes, et als.

145 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1979.

GUSN: 149655

Call Number: Stacks N7905.B46 c.1 (and 4 more)

Colonial churches and meeting houses, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, by Philip B. Wallace; measured drawings by William Allen Dunn; introduction by Horace Wells Sellers ..

2 p. ¾., ix-xii, 291 p. of illus. front. 32 cm.

Date: [c1931]

Creators: Wallace, Philip B. Dunn, William Allen.

GUSN: 149656

Call Number: Stacks NA5207.W3

Barn plans and outbuildings.

xii, 235 p. ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Halsted, Byron David, 1852-1918.

GUSN: 149657

Call Number: 85M Stacks TH4911.H35 1900

The painter, gilder, and varnisher's companion : containing rules and regulations in everything relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, glass-staining, graining, marbeling, sign-writing, gilding on glass and coach painting and varnishing.

356 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1870.

Creators: Chevreul, Michel, l786-l899.

GUSN: 149658

Call Number: Stacks TT305.P14 1870

The woodcarver of Salem : Samuel McIntire : his life and work / Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley.

xx, 168 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Cousins, Frank, b. 1851 Riley, Phil M. (Phil Madison), b. 1882.

GUSN: 149659

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.M25 C68 1916

Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, 1822-1903. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Theodora Kimball.

131, xviii, 575 p. illus., facsim., 2 fold. maps (1 col.) 24 cm.

Date: 1970.

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957, ed. Hubbard, Theodora Kimball, 1887-1935, ed.

GUSN: 149660

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB470.O5 A53

Palladio, by James S. Ackerman.

195 p. illus., maps, plans. 20 cm.

Date: 1966.

Creators: Ackerman, James S.

GUSN: 149661

Call Number: Stacks NA1123.P164 A182

The immigrant builder, or, Practical hints to handy-men : showing clearly how to plan and construct dwellings in the bush, on the prairie, or elsewhere, cheaply and well, with wood, earth, or gravel / by C.P. Dwyer.

145 p. : ill., plans ; 19 cm.

Date: c1878.

Creators: Dwyer, Charles P.

GUSN: 149662

Call Number: 85M Stacks TH4850.D88 1878

The American house-carpenter : a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials / R. G. Hatfield.

x, 398, 36 p. : ill., diagrs., tables. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Hatfield, Robert Griffith, 1815-1879.

GUSN: 149663

Call Number: Stacks TH5604.H35

The Workshop.

No description

GUSN: 149664

Call Number: Stacks NK1.W92 v.4

The modern house-carpenter's companion and builder's guide : being a hand-book for workmen, and a manual of reference for contractors and builders ... also information for the convenience of builders and contractors in making estimates / W. A. Sylvester.

192 p., 45 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: c1883.

Creators: Sylvester, W. A. (William Allen)

GUSN: 149665

Call Number: Stacks TH5608.S97 1883a

A guide to collectors : 3,500 illustrations : English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth / by Thomas Arthur Strange.

368 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: [190-?]

Creators: Strange, Thomas Arthur.

GUSN: 149666

Call Number: Stacks NK2043.S87

The Korean collection of the Peabody Essex Museum / described in essays by Susan S. Bean and Frederic A. Sharf.

94 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28.

Date: c1997.

Creators: Bean, Susan S. Sharf, Frederick A. Peabody Essex Museum.

GUSN: 149514

Call Number: Stacks DS903.B43 1997

Keeping time : the history and theory of preservation in America / William J. Murtagh.

237 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Murtagh, William J.

GUSN: 149515

Call Number: Stacks E159.M875 1988

New England views : the photography of Baldwin Coolidge (1845-1928) / Susan Fletcher Witzell, Jane A. McLaughlin, Mary Lou Smith.

xvi, 181 p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Date: c1998.

Creators: Witzell, Susan Fletcher. McLaughlin, Jane A. Smith, Mary Lou. Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928. Woods Hole Historical Collection.

GUSN: 149516

Call Number: 85M Ref. F5.W64 1998

Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America, and how we can take it back / Jane Holtz Kay.

xii, 418 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1997.

Creators: Kay, Jane Holtz.

GUSN: 149517

Call Number: Stacks HE5623.K36 1997

The book of American Windsor furniture : styles and technologies / John Kassay ; with measured drawings by the author.

viii, 195 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: c1998.

Creators: Kassay, John, 1919-

GUSN: 149518

Call Number: Stacks NK2406.K35 1998

How buildings learn : what happens after they're built / Stewart Brand.

viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.

Date: c1994.

Creators: Brand, Stewart.

GUSN: 149519

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA2542.4.B73 1994 c.2 (and 1 more)

Colt : the making of an American legend / William Hosley.

254 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Hosley, William N.

GUSN: 149520

Call Number: Stacks TS533.62.C65 H67 1996 (and 1 more)

Furnishing the old-fashioned garden : three centuries of American summerhouses, dovecotes, pergolas, privies, fences & birdhouses / May Brawley Hill.

160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1998.

Creators: Hill, May Brawley.

GUSN: 149521

Call Number: Stacks NA8450.H55 1998 (and 1 more)

The domestic architecture of Beacon Hill, 1800-1850.

[36] p. illus., map, plans. 23cm.

Date: 1973.

Creators: Weinhardt, Carl J.

GUSN: 149522

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.B65 W42

New England furniture : the Colonial era : selections from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities / Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye ; with the assistance of Philip Zea ; photographs by Richard Cheek.

xiii, 494 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Jobe, Brock. Kaye, Myrna. Zea, Philip. Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

GUSN: 149523

Call Number: Ref. NK2410.J6 1984 c.1 (and 6 more)

American writers of the early republic / edited by Emory Elliott.

xiii, 374 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Elliott, Emory, 1942-

GUSN: 149524

Call Number: Ref. PS208.A44 1985

History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations / by Samuel Greene Arnold.

2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1859-60.

Creators: Arnold, Samuel Greene, 1821-1880.

GUSN: 149525

Call Number: Stacks F79.A76 1894 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Soldiers and sailors of the Revolution from Blanford, Massachusetts.

52 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: [1933]

Creators: Wood, Sumner Gilbert, 1855-1942.

GUSN: 149526

Call Number: Stacks E513.3.W66 1933

About Bolton / by Esther Kimmens Whitcomb.

xi, 463 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1988.

Creators: Whitcomb, Esther K.

GUSN: 149527

Call Number: Stacks F74.B5 W47 1988

Vital records of Bolton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849.

232 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Bolton (Mass.)

GUSN: 149528

Call Number: Stacks F74.B5 B5

Guide to architectural trade catalogs from Avery Library, Columbia University / edited by Norman A. Ross ; introduction by Frank Matero.

xviii, 236 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1989.

Creators: Ross, Norman A., 1942- Mitchell, Herbert. Avery Library. UPA Academic Editions (Firm)

GUSN: 149529

Call Number: Ref. HD9715.8.G85 1989

Trade catalogues at Winterthur : a guide to the literature of merchandising, 1750 to 1980 / [compiled by] E. Richard McKinstry.

xv, 438 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: McKinstry, E. Richard. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 149530

Call Number: 85M Ref. Z7164.M18 H43 1984 (and 1 more)

Portsmouth furniture : masterworks from the New Hampshire seacoast / organized and edited by Brock Jobe ; with contributions by Diane Carlberg Ehrenpreis ... [et al.] ; photographs by David Bohl.

454 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Jobe, Brock. Ehrenpreis, Diane Carlberg.

GUSN: 149531

Call Number: Ref. NK2438.P67 P67 1993 c.1 (and 4 more)

Textile technology prints : a checklist of prints, drawings & paintings in the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum / by Helena Wright.

39 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1980.

Creators: Wright, Helena, 1946- Merrimack Valley Textile Museum.

GUSN: 149532

Call Number: Ref. TS1306.U452 N675 1980

Boston : a guide book / by Edwin M. Bacon.

x, 190 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., col. maps, ports. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Bacon, Edwin Munroe, 1844-1916.

GUSN: 149533

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.B132 c.1 (and 1 more)

The Japan idea : art and life in Victorian America / by William Hosley.

211 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Hosley, William N. Wadsworth Atheneum.

GUSN: 149535

Call Number: Ref. N6510.H58 1990 (and 1 more)

American interiors, New England & the South : period rooms at the Brooklyn Museum / Donald C. Peirce and Hope Alswang.

64 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: c1983.

Creators: Peirce, Donald C. Alswang, Hope. Brooklyn Museum.

GUSN: 149537

Call Number: Ref. NK2003.B76 1983 (and 1 more)

Technical Americana : a checklist of technical publications printed before 1831 / by Evald Rink ; foreword by Eugene S. Ferguson ; sponsored by the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library.

xxviii, 776 p. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: Rink, Evald, 1916- Eleutherian Mills Historical Library.

GUSN: 149538

Call Number: 85M Ref. Z7912.R56

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