Historic New England

Spoon and Pie Crimper

A fig-shaped ovoid bowl on a cylinder stem, with a ball turning at the mid-section and a "U" shaped terminous with a cast pie crimper disc.

Date: 1700-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 3352

Accession Number: 1991.1138

Serving Spoon

A flattened fig-shaped bowl on a faceted stem with a strawberry-shaped knop.

Date: 1500-1700

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), casting (process), hammering

GUSN: 3353

Accession Number: 1991.1139

Knife

Small knife; round-ended steel blade; tapered wood handle with pewter cap at the connection of the blade and handle; pewter pins hold handle in place.

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: J. Russell & Co. (Maker)

Material: wood (plant material), pewter (tin alloy), steel (alloy), tin (metal)

GUSN: 3354

Accession Number: 1991.1140.1

Fork

Small three-tyne fork with conforming tapered wood handle and pewter cap.

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: J. Russell & Co. (Maker)

Material: pewter (tin alloy), steel (alloy), wood (plant material), tin (metal)

GUSN: 3355

Accession Number: 1991.1140.2

Knives

Knives- each with a tapered rectangular wood handle on a slightly arched rounded end blade. The blade is held to the handle with a brass pin.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: I.B. Bobson Brothers (Maker)

Material: brass (alloy), steel (alloy), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3356

Accession Number: 1991.1141.1-3

Forks

Forks- each with a similarly shaped wood handle in a long cylindrical stem and two tynes.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: I.B. Bobson Brothers (Maker)

Material: brass (alloy), steel (alloy), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3357

Accession Number: 1991.1141.4-8

A candlestand with a horizontal rectangular arm within a candlecup and drip pan. At each end, it is turned to rachet a notched post on a three part frame with a pivoting edge on one upright to hold an adjustable post. All raised on an "X" form base.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: cherry (wood), maple (wood), tin (metal)

GUSN: 3358

Accession Number: 1991.1142

Rocking Horse

A rocking horse with a flattened carved head and neck attached to shaped seat and ring, supported by 6 turned spindles. The seat is raised on an arched supports and joined to long rockers and front rolled-edge platform. The horse is painted mottled grey with blue mane and eyes and a red mouth and no...

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3359

Accession Number: 1991.1143

Gooseneck Andiron

Each andiron has a faceted ball finial on a goose neck and is shaped with a flattened standard, with arched legs and spur feet.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 3360

Accession Number: 1991.1144AB

Andiron

The andiron has a ring top on a tapered standard, with arched supports ending in tiny square feet.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: casting (process), iron (metal)

GUSN: 3361

Accession Number: 1991.1145AB

Froe

Short tapered, shaved handle attached to an iron blade by an iron ring.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), iron (metal)

GUSN: 3362

Accession Number: 1991.1146

Froe

No information available. Missing?

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 3363

Accession Number: 1991.1147

Candle Drying Rack

The rack is an unpainted wood frame of two long rectangular posts joined by 7 turned stretchers. It is pierced with holes for 6 narrow tapered rods from which hang the remains of 6 antique candles. Wooden strap handle for hanging. The rods have shaved handles.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3364

Accession Number: 1991.1148

Wooden Privy Seat

Privy board with three graduated-sized holes, sanded and rounded on one side.

Date: 1800-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3365

Accession Number: 1991.1149

Plow

A heavy shaved post with tenoned rod handle and a large shield-shaped iron plow bit attached by a iron strap at the end. The post has a long tenoned shaved diagonal rail about 1/3 the way up from the iron bit.

Date: 1800-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), iron (metal)

GUSN: 3366

Accession Number: 1991.1150

Tobacconist Carved Symbol

A tall wooden statue of an Indian maiden. Her left foot is slightly forward and her left arm is bent, raised to her waist and supporting a package of prepared tobacco. Several cigar boxes and a bunch of banded cigars are in her right hand, and at her side is a sheaf of tobacco leaves. A blanket is w...

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 3367

Accession Number: 1991.1151

Yarn Winder

The two rectangular uprights are joined by two conforming stretchers or rails. There are two cagelille spools comprised of thin circular wood ends and 8 rod-turned spindles, one upright ending in an "X" form base. The second upright is rounded at the end (12" shorter than the other). All are painted...

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3368

Accession Number: 1991.1152

Yarn Winder

A shaved upright holds a frame comprised to two oblong horizontal elements joined by four shaved spindles. All are raised on a heavy pyriform base and are unpainted. The frame pivots and can be removed.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), shaving (process)

GUSN: 3369

Accession Number: 1991.1153

Clock Reel

A rectangular post with a turned ball finial holds the turned reel with 5 turned posts that have rod turned ends. The post is pierced at the mid-section for a saw-tooth edge (gear). It is all raised on a heavy trapezodial base with notched edges and 3 splayed, turned feet.

Date: 1790-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: hardwood, turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 3370

Accession Number: 1991.1154

Chest of Drawers

A rectangular overhanging top with a molded edge on a chest and four graduated drawers with a thumb molded edge, all raised on a bracket base. The end boards have a shaped cut-out base. Each drawer has two round turned knobs.

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood)

GUSN: 3371

Accession Number: 1991.1155

Candle Mold

A rectangular tray at the top with drip channels along the long side and handles at the short ends. It has 16 openings for the candle forms below and a rectangular base.

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 3372

Accession Number: 1991.1156

Whittled Wooden Hooks and Linked Chain

Three whittled wood chain links- 2 are attached to hooks, and 1 is attached to a swivel. Each is carved from one piece of wood. Two hooks date to 1834. They are of a medium brown color and lightweight wood (possibly stained or colored balsa).

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3373

Accession Number: 1991.1157

Hand Pump

Roughly an octagonal red-painted hand pump, with metal fixtures attached to a wood and tin plunger with metal wire. There is indentation along one side for holding. Repair made to pegged anchoring of pump handle held by a wooden pin. A bent ring is attached to the top of the pump for hanging on a wa...

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), tin (metal), wire, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3374

Accession Number: 1991.1158

Wooden Shoe Last

Carved cobbler's wooden shoe last, long and narrow, with a hole for threading (and string) to hang it. It is a solid medium brown wood.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood)

GUSN: 3375

Accession Number: 1991.1159

Bootjack

Of tapered rectangular form with one end a "U" shaped cut-out and a rectangular wood piece nailed to the base of the cut-out; the other, a narrow end pierced with a hanging hole. It is unpainted and the surface is impressed with overlapping circles.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 3376

Accession Number: 1991.1160

Fetters

Two iron "U" shaped forms joined by links of chain and an iron bar with loops at each end.

Date: 1840-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 3377

Accession Number: 1991.1161

The English country house.

200 p. illus. 18 cm.

Date: [1962]

Creators: Dutton, Ralph, 1898-

GUSN: 149363

Call Number: Stacks NA7620.D8 1962

The four books of architecture. With a new introd. by Adolf K. Placzek.

vii, 110 p. 212 plates. 33 cm.

Date: [1965]

Creators: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.

GUSN: 149364

Call Number: Stacks NA2515.P253 1965

Form and purpose / Moshe Safdie ; edited by John Kettle.

xvi, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Safdie, Moshe, 1938- Kettle, John.

GUSN: 149365

Call Number: Stacks NA2750.S22 1982

The habitations of man in all ages. By Eugene Viollet-Le-Duc. Translated by Benjamin Bucknall. With numerous illustrations.

xvi, 394 p. illus. (part col.) plates.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugáene-Emmanuel, 1814-1879. Bucknall, Benjamin, d. 1895, tr.

GUSN: 149366

Call Number: Stacks NA7105.V82 1876a

How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings / by Russell Sturgis.

221 p., [63] p. of plates : plans ; 25 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909.

GUSN: 149367

Call Number: Stacks NA2550.S8 1903 c.1 (and 1 more)

A history of architecture on the comparative method.

xxiv, 1366 p. illus., maps, plans. 25 cm.

Date: [1963]

Creators: Fletcher, Banister, 1833-1899. Cordingley, Reginald Annandale, 1896-

GUSN: 149368

Call Number: Stacks NA200.F63 1963

Vanished halls and cathedrals of France, by George Wharton Edwards.

324 p. incl. col. front. plates (part col.) 28 cm.

Date: [c1917]

Creators: Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950.

GUSN: 149369

Call Number: Stacks DC20.E3

Examples from ancient masonry in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations, together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, porticos, colonades, piazzas, arcades, frontispieces, etc. London, 10 Sept. 1736. Selected by John A. Fox.

72 plates. 35 cm.

Date: [18--]

Creators: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751. Fox, John A.

GUSN: 149370

Call Number: Ovr. NA211.L3

The second fifty years : American art, 1826-1876 : [exhibition], September 24, 1976, through January 23, 1977, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts / Timothy A. Riggs.

95 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Riggs, Timothy A., 1942- Worcester Art Museum.

GUSN: 149371

Call Number: Stacks N6510.W67 1976

A scene of adornment : decoration in the Victorian home from the collections of the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum : exhibited at Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, March 7-April 13, 1975.

109, [2] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c1975.

Creators: Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum. University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery.

GUSN: 149372

Call Number: Stacks NK1378.M37 1975 (and 1 more)

The up-to-date hardwood finisher : in two parts / by Fred T. Hodgson.

209, [11] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1904.

Creators: Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919.

GUSN: 149373

Call Number: Stacks TT325.H69 1904

The old furniture book, with a sketch of past days and ways, by N, Hudson Moore; with one hundred and twelve illustrations.

6 p. l., 254 p. front., 100 pl. on 50 l. 21 cm.

Date: 1936.

Creators: Moore, N. Hudson, 1857-1927.

GUSN: 149374

Call Number: Stacks NK2240.M8

How to have a better house; a helpful guide, based on experience, for those who wish a better house. By Paul T. Haagen

312 p. illus., plans. 23 cm.

Date: [1950]

Creators: Haagen, Paul T.

GUSN: 149375

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7208.H3 1950

Greenhouse construction; a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits, by L. R. Taft.

viii, 210 p. illus. (incl. plans) 19 cm.

Date: 1899, c1893.

Creators: Taft, Levi Rawson.

GUSN: 149376

Call Number: Stacks S581.T34

Palliser's model homes. Showing a variety of designs for model dwellings ...

96 p. (p. 89-96 advertisements) illus. (incl. plans) 24 cm.

Date: [c1878]

Creators: Palliser, Palliser & Co.

GUSN: 149377

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7205.P26 1878

Timber construction manual; a manual for architects, engineers, contractors, laminators and fabricators concerned with engineered timber buildings and other structures.

1 v. (various pagings) illus., maps. 24 cm.

Date: 1966.

Creators: American Institute of Timber Construction.

GUSN: 149378

Call Number: Stacks TA666.A49

The American Association of Architectural Bibliographers Papers / Edited by William B. O'Neal.

v. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1965-

Creators: O'Neal, William Bainter, ed. American Association of Architectural Bibliographers.

GUSN: 149379

Call Number: Ref. Z5941.A44 vol.1 (and 9 more)

Symphony Hall, Boston. With a list of works performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, compiled by members of the staff of Symphony Hall.

vii, 431 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1950.

Creators: Johnson, Harold Earle.

GUSN: 149380

Call Number: Stacks ML200.8.B72 S95 1950

How to be your own decorator, by Helen Koues.

2 p. ¾., 120 p. illus. (part col.) 26 cm.

Date: 1939.

Creators: Koues, Helen.

GUSN: 149381

Call Number: Stacks NK2115.K64 1939

Aristotelian and Cartesian logic at Harvard : Charles Morton's A Logick system & William Brattle's Compendium of logick / edited and introduced by Rick Kennedy.

xiii, 336 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Morton, Charles, 1627-1698. Logick system. Brattle, William, 1662-1717. Compendium of logick. Kennedy, Rick.

GUSN: 149382

Call Number: Stacks F7.A758 1995

In pursuit of paradise : history of the town of Stratford, Connecticut / Lewis G. Knapp.

xiii, 359 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Knapp, Lewis G., 1928- Stratford Historical Society (Stratford, Conn.)

GUSN: 149383

Call Number: Stacks F104.S87 K53 1989

The architecture of Frederick Clarke Withers and the progress of the Gothic revival in America after 1850 / Francis R. Kowsky.

xvi, 225 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c1980.

Creators: Kowsky, Francis R., 1943-

GUSN: 149384

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.W57 K68

King's how to see Boston; a trustworthy guide book ... ed. and pub. by Moses King ... Presented by Macullar, Parker & Company. Boston.

288 p. illus., pl., maps. 16 cm.

Date: c1895.

GUSN: 149385

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.K56 1895 c.1 (and 1 more)

A history of Black America / Howard O. Lindsey.

160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c1994.

Creators: Lindsey, Howard O.

GUSN: 149386

Call Number: 85M Stacks E185.3.L52 1994

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