Historic New England

Eden on the Charles :the making of Boston /Michael Rawson.

xii, 367 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm., Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don't think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Rawson, Michael.

GUSN: 258433

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.R39 2010

The way to peace /by Margaret Deland ; illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens.

93 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945.

GUSN: 258434

Call Number: Stacks PS1532.W3 1910

Homes for the people in suburb and country: the villa, the mansion, and the cottage, adapted to American climate and wants ; with examples showing how to alter and remodel old buildingsGervase Wheeler.

x, 443 p. ill., plans.

Date: 1855.

Creators: Wheeler, Gervase.

GUSN: 258435

Call Number: 85M Rare NA7120 W44 1855

A passion for collecting :the art of displaying objects from the exotic to the everyday /Caroline Clifton-Mogg ; photography by Simon Upton.

192 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 2002.

Creators: Clifton-Mogg, Caroline. Upton, Simon, 1967-

GUSN: 258436

Call Number: Coll. NK 2115.5 .C58 C58 2002

Out of the attic :inventing antiques in twentieth-century New England /Briann G. Greenfield.

xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., Briann G. Greenfield traces the transformation of antiques from family keepsakes to valuable artistic objects, examining the role of collectors, dealers, and museum makers in the construction of a new tradition based on the aesthetic qualities of early American furnishin...

Date: c2009.

Creators: Greenfield, Briann (Briann G.), 1970-

GUSN: 258437

Call Number: Stacks NK1133.28.G74 2009 (and 1 more)

Domestic broils :Shakers, antebellum marriage, and the narratives of Mary and Joseph Dyer /edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth A. De Wolfe.

xii, 160 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Dyer, Mary M., b. 1780. De Wolfe, Elizabeth A., 1961- Dyer, Joseph. Compendious narrative elucidating the character, disposition, and conduct of Mary Dyer, from the time of her marriage, in 1799, till she left the society called Shakers, in 1815.

GUSN: 258438

Call Number: Stacks BX9773.D94 2010

The pilgrim soul /Anne Miller Downes ; with new illustrations by Gloria J. Laurie.

iv, 277 p. : ill. ; 21 cm., Dolly Copp and her husband, Hayes, moved to a New Hampshire homestead in the 19th century and, "built a farm, raised a family, and warmly opened their home to the many travellers who passed by their door."

Date: 1997.

Creators: Downes, Anne Miller.

GUSN: 258439

Call Number: Stacks PS3507.O777 P55 1997

Israel Potter :his 50 years of exile /Herman Melville; introduction by Ian S. Maloney.

xvii, 205 p. 21 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.

GUSN: 258440

Call Number: Stacks PS2384.I7 2006

Beyond freedom /by Patricia Q. Wall.

174 p. : map ; 22 cm., " 'It's hopeless for us.' Five years ago, young Matty Warren never dreamed of saying such a thing. When her family gained their freedom in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and moved to the North Slope Village on Beacon HIll, she was a joyful optimist. ... Now, at age fifteen, she ca...

Date: 2010.

Creators: Wall, Patricia Q.

GUSN: 258441

Call Number: Stacks PZ7.W355 B49 2010

Stone by stone :the magnificent history in New England's stone walls /Robert M. Thorson.

xiii, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm., Presents a geo-archeological study of New England's stone walls exploring how they were built, their physical properties, and the function and structure of the walls.

Date: 2002.

Creators: Thorson, Robert M., 1951-

GUSN: 258442

Call Number: Stacks TH2249.T46 2002

A short guide to writing about art /Sylvan Barnet.

xv, 366 p. : ill. ; 22 cm., This book is for art courses where there is a writing component. Would you like your students to have the tools to write confidently about art? This best-selling text has guided tens of thousands of art students through the writing process. Students are shown how to analy...

Date: 2011.

Creators: Barnet, Sylvan.

GUSN: 258443

Call Number: Stacks N7476.B37 2011

Boston radio :1920-2010 /Donna L. Halper.

127 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., Boston's radio history begins with pioneering station 1XE/WGI, one of America's first radio stations, and includes the first station to receive a commercial license, WBZ; the first FM radio network, W1XOJ and W1XER; and one of the first news networks, the Yankee News Service....

Date: c2011.

Creators: Halper, Donna L.

GUSN: 258444

Call Number: Stacks PN1991.3.U6 H265 2011

Boston Public Library /Catherine J. Willis ; foreword by Amy E. Ryan.

128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Willis, Catherine J. Ryan, Amy E.

GUSN: 258445

Call Number: Stacks Z733.B752 W6 2011

Historic New England :an exhibition and sale of paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture illustrating four centuries of the history, culture, and natural beauty of the New England Region to benefit Historic New England.

1 v. (unpaged) : ill (chiefly col.), map ; 15 x 23 cm.

Date: 2010]

Creators: William Vareika Fine Arts (Firm)

GUSN: 258446

Call Number: Stacks N6515.H47 2010

In search of Motif No. 1 :the history of a fish shack /L.M. Vincent.

158 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Date: 2011.

Creators: Vincent, Lawrence M.

GUSN: 258447

Call Number: Stacks F74.R68 V56 2011

Beacon Street :its buildings & residents /Robert E. Guarino.

190 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: 2011.

Creators: Guarino, Robert E.

GUSN: 258448

Call Number: Stacks F73.67.B43 G83 2011

Ten tea parties :patriotic protests that history forgot /by Joseph Cummins.

224 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: c2012.

Creators: Cummins, Joseph.

GUSN: 258449

Call Number: Stacks E210.C86 2012

Signing their rights away :the fame and misfortune of the men who signed the United States Constitution /by Denise Kiernan & Joseph D'Agnese.

254 p. : ill. ; 20 cm., Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the thirty-nine signers of the United States Constitution, including Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and James McHenry.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Kiernan, Denise. D'Agnese, Joseph.

GUSN: 258450

Call Number: Stacks E302.5.K54 2011

Bad for democracy :how the Presidency undermines the power of the people /Dana D. Nelson.

xviii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Nelson, Dana D.

GUSN: 259734

Call Number: Stacks JK516.N35 2008

The Documentary history of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800 /with a foreword by Warren E. Burger ; Maeva Marcus, editor, James R. Perry, editor ; James M. Buchanan, associate editor, Christine R. Jordan, associate editor ; Stephen L. Tull, assistant editor ... [et al.] ; Marc Pachter, illustrations editor.

: ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1985-<2007>

Creators: Marcus, Maeva, 1941- Perry, James R., 1950-1990. United States. Supreme Court.

GUSN: 259735

Call Number: Stacks KF8742.A45 D66 2007

In the past lane :historical perspectives on American culture /Michael Kammen.

xvi, 277 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Kammen, Michael G.

GUSN: 259736

Call Number: Stacks E169.1.K256 1999

Finding Katahdin :an exploration of Maine's past /by Amy Hassinger.

x, 448 p. : ill., facsims., maps ; 26 cm.

Date: 2001.

Creators: Hassinger, Amy.

GUSN: 259737

Call Number: Stacks F19.3.H37x 2001

The forts of New France in northeast America, 1600-1763 /René Chartrand ; illustrated by Brian Delf ; series editors, Marcus Cowper and Nikolai Bogdanovic.

64 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 25 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Chartrand, René.

GUSN: 259738

Call Number: Stacks UG413.C3 C43 2008

Freud's memory :psychoanalysis, mourning, and the foreign body /Rob White.

vi, 183 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: White, Rob, 1970-

GUSN: 259739

Call Number: Stacks BF109.F74 W52 2008

Imagining New England :explorations of regional identity from the pilgrims to the mid-twentieth century /Joseph A. Conforti.

xiv, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., This work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New En...

Date: c2001.

Creators: Conforti, Joseph A.

GUSN: 259740

Call Number: Stacks F4.C76 2001

Music in rural New England family and community life, 1870-1940 /Jennifer C. Post.

xiv, 313 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Date: c2004.

Creators: Post, Jennifer C.

GUSN: 259741

Call Number: Stacks ML200.P67 2004

Basic perspective drawing :a visual approach /John Montague.

ix, 253 p. : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.

Date: c1998.

Creators: Montague, John, 1944-

GUSN: 259742

Call Number: Stacks NC750.M648 1998

The Papers of Francis Bernard :Governor of colonial Massachusetts, 1760-69 /edited by Colin Nicolson.

v. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 26 cm., "The Bernard Papers is a comprehensive selection of the correspondence and other papers of Sir Francis Bernard (1712-1779), governor of colonial Massachusetts between 1760-1769. This volume is the first of a projected three volumes of edited transcripts co...

Date: 2007-

Creators: Nicolson, Colin, 1961- Bernard, Francis, Sir, 1712-1779. Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 259743

Call Number: Stacks F61.C71 2007 v.73 (and 1 more)

The unfolding history of the Berkshires /by David J. McLaughlin.

ix, 92 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: McLaughlin, David J., 1936-

GUSN: 249411

Call Number: Stacks F72.B5 M43 2007

The last Ruskinians :Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and their circle /Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson ; with Melissa Renn, Susan C. Ricci.

104 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm., "Though the eminent nineteenth-century British critic and watercolorist John Ruskin never set foot in the United States, his writings were widely read here. American artists eagerly took up his call for the meticulous depiction of nature and the preservation th...

Date: c2007.

Creators: Stebbins, Theodore E. Anderson, Virginia (Virginia M. Genevie) Fogg Art Museum. Harvard University. Art Museums.

GUSN: 249412

Call Number: Stacks ND1807.S74 2007 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Yankee India :American commercial and cultural encounters with India in the age of sail, 1784-1860 /Susan S. Bean.

288 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.

Date: 2001.

Creators: Bean, Susan S. Peabody Essex Museum.

GUSN: 249413

Call Number: Stacks HF3121.B43 2001

The party book,by Winnifred Fales and Mary H. Northend.

xi, 354 p. LIX pl. 21 cm.

Date: 1912. (1924 printing)

Creators: Fales, Winnifred Shaw, 1875- Northend, Mary Harrod, 1850-1926, joint author.

GUSN: 249588

Call Number: Stacks TX731.F3 1924

The old church book /Robin Langley Sommer.

144 p. : ill., chiefly col. ; 33 cm.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Sommer, Robin Langley.

GUSN: 249589

Call Number: Stacks NA5205.S65 1999

People of the Wachusett :greater New England in history and memory, 1630-1860 /David Jaffee.

xiii, 306 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Jaffee, David.

GUSN: 249590

Call Number: 85M Stacks F7.J34 1999

Pattern design;an introduction to the study of formal ornament,by Archibald H. Christie.

xii, 313 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: [1969]

Creators: Christie, Archibald H.

GUSN: 249591

Call Number: Coll. NK1510.C5 1969

The preservationist's progress :architectural adventures in conserving yesterday's houses /Hugh Howard.

x, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1991.

Creators: Howard, Hugh, 1952-

GUSN: 249592

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.H735 1991

The Old farmer's almanac colonial cookbook /Clarissa M. Silitch, editor ; John W. White, designer.

64 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Silitch, Clarissa M.

GUSN: 249593

Call Number: Stacks TX715.O428 1982

Out of nowhere :disaster and tourism in the White Mountains /Eric Purchase.

xiii, 192 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Purchase, Eric. Center for American Places.

GUSN: 249594

Call Number: 85M Stacks G155.U6 P87 1999

Nathaniel Morison and his descendants /by George Abbot Morison.

238 p. : ill., ports., geneal. table ; 23 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Morison, George Abbot, 1879-

GUSN: 249595

Call Number: Stacks CS71.M88 2000

Colonial America :a history in documents /Edward G. Gray.

p. cm.

Date: 2011.

Creators: Gray, Edward G., 1964-

GUSN: 249596

Call Number: Stacks E187.G73 2011

Preservation guidelines for municipally owned historic burial grounds and cemeteries.

iv, 249 p. : ill., plans ; 22 x 28 cm.

Date: [2000]

Creators: Massachusetts. Dept. of Environmental Management. Historic Cemeteries Preservation Initiative. Walker-Kluesing Design Group.

GUSN: 249597

Call Number: Stacks F65.P74 2000

Preservation guidelines for municipally owned historic burial grounds and cemeteries.

iv, 334 p. : ill., map, plans ; 22 x 28 cm.

Date: [2002].

Creators: Massachusetts. Dept. of Environmental Management. Historic Cemeteries Preservation Initiative. Walker-Kluesing Design Group.

GUSN: 249598

Call Number: Stacks F65.P74 2002

The president's house :a history /by William Seale.

2 v. (xx, 1224 p. [80] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm., The President's House is an unforgettable account of the White House from its origins during the nation's beginning to 1952, a continuing story of adapting and altering, yet always keeping close to the original image and purpose of the landmark. S...

Date: 1986.

Creators: Seale, William. White House Historical Association. National Geographic Society (U.S.)

GUSN: 249599

Call Number: F204.W5 S43 1986

TV sets :fantasy blueprints of classic TV homes /Mark Bennett.

131 p. : ill., plans ; 28 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Bennett, Mark, 1956-

GUSN: 249600

Call Number: Stacks PN1992.3.U5 B38 1996

Victorian Marblehead /commentary by Gail P. Hercher ; photos. by Michael Hercher.

viii, 141 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1980.

Creators: Hercher, Gail P. Hercher, Michael.

GUSN: 249601

Call Number: Stacks NA735.M37 H47 1980

A place to remember :using history to build community /Robert R. Archibald.

224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Archibald, Robert, 1948-

GUSN: 249602

Call Number: Stacks E180.5.A73 1999

To collect in earnest :the life and work of Electra Havemeyer Webb /Lauren B. Hewes and Celia Y. Oliver.

62 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Date: c1997]

Creators: Hewes, Lauren B. Oliver, Celia Y. Shelburne Museum.

GUSN: 249603

Call Number: Stacks NK535.W42 H48 1997

A true republican :the life of Paul Revere /Jayne E. Triber.

x, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm., Portraying the man behind the myth, A True Republican goes beyond the famous "ride" to explore Paul Revere's larger role in the American Revolution, the evolution of his political thought, and his transformation from Revolutionary artisan to entrepreneur in the early repub...

Date: c1998.

Creators: Triber, Jayne E., 1955-

GUSN: 249604

Call Number: Stacks F69.R43 T75 1998

Making culture visible :the public display of photography at fairs, expositions, and exhibitions in the United States, 1847-1900 /Julie K. Brown.

192 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Brown, Julie K.

GUSN: 249605

Call Number: 85M Stacks T395.5.U6 B768 2001

The master list of design projects of the Olmsted firm, 1857-1979 /edited by Lucy Lawliss, Caroline Loughlin, Lauren Meier.

xix, 347 : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Lawliss, Lucy. Loughlin, Caroline. Meier, Lauren. National Association for Olmsted Parks (U.S.)

GUSN: 249606

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 B48 2008

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